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07:19:18 03/14/12
Santorum wins in America's Deep South
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Santorum wins in America's Deep South
www.euronews.com Republican candidate Rick Santorum has won two critical primary victories in Alabama and Mississippi, once again shaking up the presidential nomination race. The evangelical senator was always expected to appeal to Republican core voters in America's Deep South, but front runner Mitt Romney had been polling well. "We will compete everywhere, the time is now for Conservatives to pull together," Santorum told supporters. "The time is now to make sure that we've the best chance to win this election - and the best chance to win this election is to nominate the Conservative to go up against Barack Obama, the conservative who can take him on on every issue." Santorum will now be urging his conservative rival Newt Gingrich to pull out of the race. Although Gingrich came second in both states he really needed a win to keep his campaign afloat. The vote is a disappointment for Romney who came a close third, but although he has already opened a big lead in the number of delegates won, he had hoped for a breakthrough to put his conservative credentials and bid for the nomination beyond doubt. So far the Republican race has featured a number of surges but although Romney looks unlikely to be caught he may not get the 1144 winning delegate total. In that case, Santorum is pinning his hopes on votes coming his way at the Republican Convention in the summer. The fourth candidate, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, did not actively campaign in either state. Find us on: Youtube ... From: Euronews Views: 69 2 ratings Time: 01:27 More in News & Politics
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23:00:18 03/07/12
Ronald Romney Forgets Iran-Contra
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For the second time in four months, Mitt Romney has penned a tough-talking op-ed on the Iranian nuclear program. But this time, the almost certain GOP presidential nominee has introduced a new riff to his constant refrain that "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon." Now in his Washington Post piece and again in his speech Tuesday to AIPAC , Romney has portrayed himself as a modern day Ronald Reagan who will force Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions just as it did the 52 U.S. hostages in 1981. Unfortunately, Mitt forgot the full story of the Gipper's experience with Iran. As it turned out, in the Iran-Contra scandal that almost ended his presidency, Ronald Reagan gave the mullahs in Tehran not a show of American might, but a cake, a Bible - and U.S. arms.
Romney first Reagan impersonation appeared in Monday's Washington Post as a follow up to November's " I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes ." In it, he cast Barack Obama as "America's most feckless president since Carter" and cast himself as the Gipper: >
Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America's feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year, Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear that the Iranians would pay a very stiff price for continuing their criminal behavior. On Jan. 20, 1981, in the hour that Reagan was sworn into office, Iran released the hostages. The Iranians well understood that Reagan was serious about turning words into action in a way that Jimmy Carter never was.
Speaking by satellite Tuesday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy (AIPAC) Conference, Mitt again donned his Reagan mask (around the 8:40 mark above): >
"I believe the right course is what Ronald Reagan called 'peace through strength.' There is a reason why the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn into office. As President, I will offer that kind of clarity, strength, and resolve."
Apparently, Mitt Romney wasn't paying attention to the rest of Reagan's performance. That would be the part when Ronald Reagan swapped arms for hostages with Ayatollah Khomeini.
The Iran-Contra scandal , as you'll recall, almost laid waste to the Reagan presidency. Desperate to free U.S. hostages held by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, President Reagan provided weapons Tehran badly needed in its long war with Saddam Hussein (who, of course, was backed by the United States). In a clumsy and illegal attempt to skirt U.S. law, the proceeds of those sales were then funneled to the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. And as the New York Times recalled, Reagan's fiasco started with an emissary bearing gifts from the Gipper himself: >
A retired Central Intelligence Agency official has confirmed to the Senate Intelligence Committee that on the secret mission to Teheran last May, Robert C. McFarlane and his party carried a Bible with a handwritten verse from President Reagan for Iranian leaders. >
According to a person who has read the committee's draft report, the retired C.I.A. official, George W. Cave, an Iran expert who was part of the mission, said the group had 10 falsified passports, believed to be Irish, and a key-shaped cake to symbolize the anticipated ''opening'' to Iran.
The rest, as they say, is history. After the revelations regarding his trip to Tehran and the Iran-Contra scheme, a disgraced McFarlane attempted suicide. (That would be the same Bud McFarlane whose endorsement Newt Gingrich touted during a reecent GOP debate.) After his initial denials, President Reagan was forced to address the nation on March 4, 1987 and acknowledge he indeed swapped arms for hostages ( video here ): >
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. As the Tower board reported, what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages."
(For more background, read the Reagan diaries , starting with the part in which he admits in 1986, " I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran .")
Of course, the sad saga didn't end there. Then Lt. Colonel and now Fox News commentator Oliver North saw his Iran-Contra conviction overturned by an appellate court led by faithful Republican partisan and later Iraq WMD commissioner Laurence Silberman. And in December 1992, outgoing President George H.W. Bush offered Christmas pardons to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-Contra scandal figures. Among them were John Poindexter and Elliott Abrams, men who eight years later reprised their roles in the administration of George W. Bush.
As it turns out, Elliott Abrams - one of the people who brought you the Iraq War - is also now providing ammunition for Mitt Romney. As Washington Post blogger and Romney stenographer Jennifer Rubin wrote Monday after President Obama's address to AIPAC: >
As former deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams explains, "Military and intelligence cooperation is excellent, and American diplomatic support for an isolated Israel was repeatedly (though not always, as he suggested) forthcoming. Still, any effort to paper over the differences between his administration and the Netanyahu government--or worse yet, to make believe there really are no important differences--was bound to fail." Facts are stubborn things, and Obama's record is so error-strewn and so different in tenor from predecessors that no speech can paper over the last three years.
Facts are, as Ronald Reagan liked to say, stubborn things. Among those facts is that with the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan disgraced himself and his country. Which is why Mitt Romney had it right for once back in 1994 when he proclaimed: >
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."
Sadly, 18 years later and 25 years after Iran-Contra, Ronald Romney is trying to rewrite that history, too.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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23:00:18 03/07/12
Ronald Romney Forgets Iran-Contra
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For the second time in four months, Mitt Romney has penned a tough-talking op-ed on the Iranian nuclear program. But this time, the almost certain GOP presidential nominee has introduced a new riff to his constant refrain that "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon." Now in his Washington Post piece and again in his speech Tuesday to AIPAC , Romney has portrayed himself as a modern day Ronald Reagan who will force Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions just as it did the 52 U.S. hostages in 1981. Unfortunately, Mitt forgot the full story of the Gipper's experience with Iran. As it turned out, in the Iran-Contra scandal that almost ended his presidency, Ronald Reagan gave the mullahs in Tehran not a show of American might, but a cake, a Bible - and U.S. arms.
Romney first Reagan impersonation appeared in Monday's Washington Post as a follow up to November's " I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes ." In it, he cast Barack Obama as "America's most feckless president since Carter" and cast himself as the Gipper: >
Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days while America's feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year, Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear that the Iranians would pay a very stiff price for continuing their criminal behavior. On Jan. 20, 1981, in the hour that Reagan was sworn into office, Iran released the hostages. The Iranians well understood that Reagan was serious about turning words into action in a way that Jimmy Carter never was.
Speaking by satellite Tuesday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy (AIPAC) Conference, Mitt again donned his Reagan mask (around the 8:40 mark above): >
"I believe the right course is what Ronald Reagan called 'peace through strength.' There is a reason why the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn into office. As President, I will offer that kind of clarity, strength, and resolve."
Apparently, Mitt Romney wasn't paying attention to the rest of Reagan's performance. That would be the part when Ronald Reagan swapped arms for hostages with Ayatollah Khomeini.
The Iran-Contra scandal , as you'll recall, almost laid waste to the Reagan presidency. Desperate to free U.S. hostages held by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, President Reagan provided weapons Tehran badly needed in its long war with Saddam Hussein (who, of course, was backed by the United States). In a clumsy and illegal attempt to skirt U.S. law, the proceeds of those sales were then funneled to the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. And as the New York Times recalled, Reagan's fiasco started with an emissary bearing gifts from the Gipper himself: >
A retired Central Intelligence Agency official has confirmed to the Senate Intelligence Committee that on the secret mission to Teheran last May, Robert C. McFarlane and his party carried a Bible with a handwritten verse from President Reagan for Iranian leaders. >
According to a person who has read the committee's draft report, the retired C.I.A. official, George W. Cave, an Iran expert who was part of the mission, said the group had 10 falsified passports, believed to be Irish, and a key-shaped cake to symbolize the anticipated ''opening'' to Iran.
The rest, as they say, is history. After the revelations regarding his trip to Tehran and the Iran-Contra scheme, a disgraced McFarlane attempted suicide. (That would be the same Bud McFarlane whose endorsement Newt Gingrich touted during a reecent GOP debate.) After his initial denials, President Reagan was forced to address the nation on March 4, 1987 and acknowledge he indeed swapped arms for hostages ( video here ): >
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. As the Tower board reported, what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages."
(For more background, read the Reagan diaries , starting with the part in which he admits in 1986, " I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran .")
Of course, the sad saga didn't end there. Then Lt. Colonel and now Fox News commentator Oliver North saw his Iran-Contra conviction overturned by an appellate court led by faithful Republican partisan and later Iraq WMD commissioner Laurence Silberman. And in December 1992, outgoing President George H.W. Bush offered Christmas pardons to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-Contra scandal figures. Among them were John Poindexter and Elliott Abrams, men who eight years later reprised their roles in the administration of George W. Bush.
As it turns out, Elliott Abrams - one of the people who brought you the Iraq War - is also now providing ammunition for Mitt Romney. As Washington Post blogger and Romney stenographer Jennifer Rubin wrote Monday after President Obama's address to AIPAC: >
As former deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams explains, "Military and intelligence cooperation is excellent, and American diplomatic support for an isolated Israel was repeatedly (though not always, as he suggested) forthcoming. Still, any effort to paper over the differences between his administration and the Netanyahu government--or worse yet, to make believe there really are no important differences--was bound to fail." Facts are stubborn things, and Obama's record is so error-strewn and so different in tenor from predecessors that no speech can paper over the last three years.
Facts are, as Ronald Reagan liked to say, stubborn things. Among those facts is that with the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan disgraced himself and his country. Which is why Mitt Romney had it right for once back in 1994 when he proclaimed: >
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."
Sadly, 18 years later and 25 years after Iran-Contra, Ronald Romney is trying to rewrite that history, too.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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14:22:14 02/03/12
Hot Climatologists, Little Newt and Tebow's Allah - NTN #105
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Nearly The News #105
FEEL IT HOT, HOT, HOT!
A new study released this week validated what scientists have been saying all along; the Earth’s climatologists are getting increasingly hotter and may be responsible for melting hearts at record levels.
The Chicagodope.com says researchers using hi-resolution imagery and computer models have found atmospheric scientists have been getting more attractive, and at a faster rate than ever before.
The current field of climate scientists has increased in relative attractiveness by an average of 2.2 points over the last 30 years, moving from fours to solid sixes and sevens.
http://www.thechicagodope.com/2012/01/24/scientists-confirm-earths-climatologists-getting-hotter/
BIG NEWTIN, SPENDING G’S…
Despite a crushing loss in Florida, former speaker Newt Gingrich says he won’t drop out before the Republican Convention.
“I got honies in every hood up and down this bitch,” said the thrice-married GOP candidate, who’s ex wife recently announced her husband has requested an “open marriage.” “Why would I stop now, when there are so many shorties who ain’t tasted little newt yet?”
A spokesman later confirmed that in using the term “little newt,” Gingrich meant his penis.
And finally…
TEBOW: I’D LIKE TO THANK ALLAH AND MY OFFENSIVE LINE
Cap News is reporting that Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has abandoned his much publicized Christian faith in favor of the world's second largest religion, Islam.
"I've decided that, as an athlete, it's important I have the best teammates," Tebow told a stunned press conference. "And Jesus proved to me this past post season that he simply isn't there for me when I need him."
Tebow added from now on, he would like to be called Faruque Al-Shabaz, and plans to begin a new post score prayer practice known as Shabazing.
http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201201016
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21:04:58 01/19/12
Ex-wife Says Gingrich Wanted 'Open Marriage'
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Ex-wife Says Gingrich Wanted 'Open Marriage'
Dredging up a past that Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's second ex-wife says Gingrich asked for an "open marriage" in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. (Jan. 19) From: AssociatedPress Views: 302 14 ratings Time: 01:22 More in News & Politics
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11:34:37 01/17/12
Newt Opens Up
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Newt Opens Up
Two days before the Iowa Caucus, Newt Gingrich blasts Mitt Romney's negative ads, President Obama's "pathetic" campaign, and tells Reuters why he cried when asked about his mother. Correspondent Jeff Mason spoke to the presidential candidate on his campaign bus in Waterloo, Iowa. From: ReutersTV Views: 11 0 ratings Time: 11:35 More in News & Politics
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11:34:37 01/17/12
Newt Opens Up
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Two days before the Iowa Caucus, Newt Gingrich blasts Mitt Romney's negative ads, President Obama's "pathetic" campaign, and tells Reuters why he cried when asked about his mother. Correspondent Jeff Mason spoke to the presidential candidate on his campaign bus in Waterloo, Iowa.
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15:52:31 01/02/12
Newt Opens Up
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Newt Opens Up
Two days before the Iowa Caucus, Newt Gingrich blasts Mitt Romney's negative ads, President Obama's "pathetic" campaign, and tells Reuters why he cried when asked about his mother. Correspondent Jeff Mason spoke to the presidential candidate on his campaign bus in Waterloo, Iowa. From: ReutersVideo Views: 624 14 ratings Time: 11:35 More in News & Politics
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06:55:00 12/05/11
Congress, Ben and Jerry's, Twinkies - NTN #093
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Nearly The News #093
THE SORTA-MEDIOCRE COMMITTEE?
Following the failure of the congressional "super committee" to forge a deficit reduction deal, congressional leaders say they're planning to reconvene the group under a different name.
"I mean, that's a lot to live up to, super committee," says House Speaker John Boehner as reported by Cap News. "It's like, look at me, I'm super, I have a cape, I'm invincible. It's a name that would indicate almost inevitable success, and if you know anything about Congress, you know that's not a message we're comfortable with."
Some new names under consideration include
- The Average Committee
- The Trying Really Hard Committee
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and
- The Stupor Committee.
http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201111013
CANDIDATES THAT TAKE A LICKING!
The Chicagodope.com says Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream has developed a line of flavors based on the current crop of Republican candidates.
Coming soon to a grocery isle near you will be Mitt Romney’s Vanilla Flip-Flop, Herman Cain’s Empty Chocolate Bliss, Rick Perry’s Brain Freeze, Newt Gingrich’s Third Wife’s the Charm and Michele Bachmann’s Cougar Crunch, a watered-down tea-flavored ice cream with marshmallow fluff and bits of Valium and Prozac.
You can also sink your tongue into Ron Paul’s Libertarian Lime, with salty nuts and peanut brittle, or Rick Santorum’s Google Me Surprise, a rainbow-flavored sorbet with an unspecified “surprise” at the bottom.
http://www.thechicagodope.com/2011/11/22/ben-jerry%E2%80%99s-launches-republican-primary-ice-cream-2/
And finally…
TWINKIES: THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF THE FOOD PYRAMID
A major American snack-food makers say the decision by congress to designate pizza a vegetable in school lunches means the door is open for declaring Twinkie’s “a vitamin infused fruit flavor log.”
“We’re the same color as an apple,” says a Hostess Brands spokesperson. “There’s some kind of trace of vitamins in there, and as for taste, well that just comes with the refined sugar. What’s the issue?”
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09:53:45 11/10/11
Newt Gingrich's In-depth Interview with Piers Morgan
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Newt Gingrich's In-depth Interview with Piers Morgan
Newt discusses his "tortoise" model of gaining momentum to the nomination and how important debates will be in defeating Obama in the 2012 election. Other topics covered are his early campaign challenges, Greece, the media, the Tea Party, and the other candidates. Watch and learn more about his untraditional idea-oriented campaign that includes brain science, the judicial branch, Strong America Now, modernizing government, personal Social Security accounts modeled on Chile and Galveston, and his 21st Century Contract with America. He also opens up about his personal life and past experiences. Originally aired November 8, 2011 From: ngingrich Views: 8307 97 ratings Time: 27:23 More in News & Politics
