Clinton faces backlash over Kwanzaa tweets

Washington Examiner  "A number of African-American social media users pushed back against Hillary Clinton's attempt to reach black voters with aKwanzaa Twitter avatar.

" 'Wishing everyone the best this Kwanzaa. To all celebrating — Bill and I send you our warmest wishes. -H," Clinton tweeted on Saturday night, after changing her Twitter logo to a red, black and green image of her campaign's "H" logo, which was made to look like a kinara, the candle holder used in Kwanzaa celebrations." . . .

#NewHillaryLogo

No one trusts the word of the U.S. anymore. . .

. . . "not after disappearing red lines and promises about what Obama could get from a nuclear deal with Iran -- almost all of which failed to make it into the final agreement.
"That trust will take a long time to rebuild -- if it ever can be."   

Obama may soon be gone - from office - but the American voters who elected him are still with us. TD

Lame duck on world tour: Obama to fly abroad at least six times to 'secure' his legacy  " ''Travel early on in a presidency has the value of investing in the relationship, when the president could be around for anther three or seven years,' Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told Politico. 'Traveling at the end of the presidency is very different. They're no longer looking toward the future.' " . . .

Obama's deterrence factor  . . . "President Obama lost the power of deterrence through a variety of unfortunate pronouncements and policies. False deadlines to Iran, false red lines to Syria, and false step-over lines to Russia have all rendered the currency of U.S. admonitions worthless. If Obama were now to lay down a red line for ISIS should it come close to entering Baghdad, would anyone take that threat seriously?" . . .

Former DIA Chief Flynn Says Obama's Terrorism Strategy 'Is Not Working'   . . . "While Obama has claimed “we’re on track” with fighting ISIS, Flynn says here, “we’re not on track.”

“ 'His strategy is not working,” as he decries senior government officials who out of fear or self-interest, refuse to tell the president the facts.

"Asked to connect the dots on releasing GITMO prisoners, Bowe Bergdahl and others, Flynn says, “Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.' ”

Democrat government: America's Can't-Do State: California's Man-Made Drought Continues

This is not the Democrat Party of FDR and Harry Truman.

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The Carlsbad, Calif., desalination plant, America's largest, took 18 years to complete but just three years to build.

. . . "But California has become a can't-do state.

"The Carlsbad desalination plant was proposed in 1998 and took almost 18 years to build. But only three of those years were actually spent building. The rest were wasted on politics and the usual Golden State regulatory and bureaucratic tangle. One of the plant's investors told a California writer that the duplicative state approval process alone delayed the project by at least a decade and added about 10% to total costs.

" 'It took longer to get approvals for this one desalination plant than it did to design, approve and complete most of the 60-year-old State Water Project — California's enormous system of dams, aqueducts and pumping stations that brings northern California water to the more arid Southland," writes Steven Greenhut, a San Diego Union-Tribune columnist and a contributor to Watchdog.org.

"The delays — primarily engineered by environmentalists — were so lengthy and difficult to overcome that the future of desalination plants in California, beginning its fourth year of drought, is grim." . . .

Drive the length of the Oregon coast on 101 and you will see many beautiful bridges, nearly all built under the administration of Democrat President Roosevelt. This is no longer the Democrat party of Will Rogers and my ancestors. TD

Trump is right: Bill Clinton’s sordid sexual history is fair game

Donald Trump 2008: Clinton Sex Scandal ‘Totally Unimportant’
True enough, but Hillary is taking her stand as being the protector of women, the voice of abused women who she says are not being heard.
Sort of like if Mr. Trump claimed he was being the advocate of faithfulness and commitment in marriage.  TD

http://patriotretort.com/fair-game/

"Well, Bill Clinton has a penchant for something. He had a successful presidency — with an ugly blot. “Sexism” isn’t the precise word for his predatory behavior toward women or his inexcusable relationship with a 22-year-old intern. Yet in the larger scheme of things, Bill Clinton’s conduct toward women is far worse than any of the offensive things that Trump has said." . . .

WaPo   . . . "“I think he has to answer for what he says, and I assume that others will make the larger point about his language,” Clinton told t he Des Moines Register. “It’s not the first time he’s demonstrated a penchant for sexism.”

"True, but Clinton’s attempt at outsourced outrage has the air of a basketball player flopping on the floor for the benefit of the ref. Nothing would make the Clinton campaign happier than some good old-fashioned male chauvinist piggery directed her way — all the better to rile up female voters who seem surprisingly nonchalant about the prospect of electing the first female president."

"We’ve seen this playbook before. During her first Senate race in 2000, when Clinton’s Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, invaded her personal space in a debate. During the 2008 presidential campaign, when Clinton surrogates complained that male opponents were “piling on” the then-front-runner, and the campaign posted a video on its website called “The Politics of Pile On.' ”

D.C. NPR Family Another Victim of Black Violence and Denial

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"If Lori Kaplan depended only on her employers at NPR for news, she was probably surprised at the black mob violence that almost killed her white husband."

Colin Flaherty  . . . "Kaplan is the Senior Director of Audience Research at NPR in downtown Washington, D.C. That is where she regularly meets her husband at the end of his evening commute on the Metro Red Line.

"That is what she was recently doing when she received a text message from him: An “idiot gang” was acting belligerently in his train car, so he was going to move.

"That was the last she heard from him until he got off the train: bloody, beaten, and dazed. With a broken jaw and missing teeth.

"The Washington Post writer who covers commuting -- not crime -- picked up the story: " . . .

. . . "The attackers of Kaplan’s husband were black -- as are virtually all of the violent predators on the Washington Metro. A fact the Post and NPR keep trying to ignore and wish away, even as they devote more and more space to Black Lives Matter and the omnipresence of white racism.

"The reporter was upholding a longstanding tradition at the Post -- which at NPR is an ironclad rule -- not to report on the epidemic of black on white crime and black mob violence in Washington or anywhere else.

"Or only to dismiss it as some kind of right wing talking point, if somehow race does sneak into the coverage.

"At NPR they take this exclusion to the extreme: Virtually every story on race -- and there are many -- is told from the perspective of relentless black victimization at the hands of perpetual white racism." . . .

If African Americans are taking to the streets, what does that say about half a century of liberal race politics?
. . . "Get a clue, liberals. We are in the current mess because of you. Let me count the ways." . . .