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The video of the ceremony won't stream so above is Shadi Sadr's Speech.

Secretary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the annual International Women of Courage Awards at the Department of State, which was broadcasted live this afternoon.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development has been rescheduled for 2:30 pm Friday, January 8, 2010.

You will be able to view the speech at this link >> http://www.icpd2015.org/

Thanks again Mediaite for leading me to Fire Dog Lake for this scoop.

President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic, Blames Olbermann for Politicizing Event

Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had “politicized” the event.” He indicated that some were turning the event into a primary kickoff against Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln.

CNN Story

Hillary Clinton makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed in Kabul Wednesday in a surprise visit on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai.

Clinton went straight into a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, before having dinner with Karzai.

Her first visit to Afghanistan as secretary of state comes as President Obama is deciding whether to send up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as requested by McChrystal.

Oh I know.  I sort of missed most of Monday and Tuesday.  This is an open thread but I'd like to stir some thoughts too.

Over at RealClearPolitics I just read an article by Bruce Walker at American Thinker.  Now I think Thinker is a tad to the right of Atilla but Walker pegs what many of us have been saying about Obama for years.

The Not Ready for Prime Time President

....But there is a huge difference between Obama, on the one hand, those other presidents on the other hand - and the difference transcends ideology. The difference is that JFK, FDR, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton had the ability to govern once they had won their elections.

....

Obama, while possessing many of the campaigning gifts of these presidents, has shown no ability to govern at all. This is a very dangerous situation for our nation. Our leader is a man whose ignorance, in many areas of history and policy, is simply appalling. He is rather like the "President in the Plastic Bubble." Obama's entire life has been insulated from any sense of reality of the nation he governs

Yep, that's a good one for everyone to read.

Funny but all I can think is: Up Yours DNC!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/06/democrats-work-to-avoid-2008-primary-strife.html

Democrats Work To Avoid 2008 Primary Strife

June 27, 2009 12:09 PM

WTF? 
I saw this back during the primary but one assumes things like this and the Hillary Nutcracker* would be gone by now.

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We're getting used to it. 

There is no decision yet, and I'll get into why I'm in a quandary but for some reason my DNA allows me to separate the actions from the issue.  I trust people who say what they mean and do what they say.  Even people I totally disagree with, at least If they are trust worthy then I know where I stand.

I hated his policies and we're now paying for Ronald Reagan's stripping of regulations and shrinking the workforce responsible for enforcing the regulations we still have.  Think lack of meat inspectors.

But I trusted Ronald Reagan.  We knew what we were getting.

I do not trust President Obama to say and do the same thing.  After all, what he says is "Just Words".  It's his actions that speak volumes.

Way back in the early days of this "historic" administration, February, the administration said they would boycott the upcoming Durban II meetings due to the outright Israel bashing and other issues in the primary document.

But now it is ages later and we hear rumblings that we may attend the conference afterall.

I had planned on tacking it to the back of my shed or just leaving it where it was, against the garage wall.  But today I got out my carpet knife and sliced it into 2' x 1' trashcan compatible sizes.

I never had it in my yard, I had loads of the little ones.  I have two of the normal yard signs saved for posterity along with my Shaheen, Lynch and McCain.

Nothing more to say.  The sign wars are now over.

Newsweek Issue of April, 6, 2009

Hillary Clinton is now the second member of the Obama administration to be shot down on talk of once again banning assault weapons.  The first was Attorney General Eric Holder.  Both of these honest officials have stated what they know in their hearts but the administration of no lobbyists, the candidate of no special interests have asked them to effectively shut up so as not to offend the NRA.

After meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Clinton said that reinstating the U.S. ban on assault weapons—which was passed in 1994 and expired in 2004—is one step this country could take to curb the flow of guns to Mexico's drug cartels. "These military-style weapons don't belong on anybody's street," Clinton told NBC. Within hours, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that he was unaware of "any plans" to push for such a ban—even though Obama had backed one during last year's campaign.

But wait.  Obama wouldn't back off a campaign promise would he?

The stimulus bill that's moving through the Senate has 3 major components: tax cuts, spending, and amendments. A fourth part not mentioned is the interest on the debt which would amount to about $350 billion. That's what John McCain is referring to when he mentions the cost being something like $1.2 trillion. The CBO says if Congress does nothing, the recession will be over by later this year.

This post stays on top today so I can explain some things to those who may be dropping by for their first visit.

So, Welcome to Partizane where we have but one Rule.  One Rule to rule them all.

Disrespect of others is the only thing not tolerated here.

Civil Discourse is the rule of the day.

A wonderful explanation of this was offered by Creeper and can be read on the about page in the menu.

So at the Jeanne Shaheen handshake event today, I met a nice older fellow who will remain anon.  He stood out because in that room full of Democrats he was wearing a Hillary 2008 button.  Granted, many of them supported her in the primary but every single one I know drank the kool-aid long ago.  But I'm drifting as I tend to do.

He is a foreign policy wonk and old aquaintence of Hill and Bill.  Plus I think he's worked in a few administrations.

He explained in sensible terms why VP would have been the worse thing for Hillary.  I agree, but then he explained to me how the platform of SOS can be used by her especially when his Oliness is so focused on the economy.  Neither of which Obama knows squat about.

It is after all my treasure trove of crap.

This week is the year end, double issue featuring the most powerful people in the world.  They call them The Global Elite http://www.newsweek.com/id/176484

First piss off is the Conventional Wisdom/Up or Down graphic column.  Hillary is UP "Odor of fractious, low-road campaign fading.  And brains, experience, work ethic could make her a great secretary of state."

GRRRRRRR that will require an entire post of it's own.

But the real piss off and the one I'd like to ask a volunteer of the woman species to blog about is titled, "Player or Pretender".

On the left with the Pretenders we have PUMAs.  On the right with the players we have Cougars.

It is inspiring for me to read this heartfelt story by Wendy Button, a Democratic speech writer for Edwards. Hillary and Obama explain why her party has left her.

So Long, Democrats

by Wendy Button for The Daily Beast

I had thought that come election day the only sane thing I could do is write-in Hillary.  Both to feel good about voting for the most qualified and as a protest vote.

But there is only one thing a write-in vote will do.  It will hurt Hillary.  It will hurt more than voting for McCain or not voting at all.  Because a write-in vote will give the Obamacrats written proof that Hillary supporters did not come on board.

That will of course be her fault.  If he loses they will blame her for the loss and point to the write-in votes that could have carried him.  If he somehow wins, they'll use the votes against her and say she can't be trusted.

Either way, if there is a large write-in vote, Hillary Clinton will be alientated from her party and permanently hurt.

I respect her too much to be a part of that so I will not write her name on the ballot.

That's an amazing statement for me to make but today I realized the truth.  I am a feminist.

Yes, I'm of the male variety and I'm not gay.  In fact many would consider me a sexist for my woman loving ways but I'll argue with anyone that a love of women and a love of the female form is anything but sexist.

But today it hit me or really it started yesterday while fishing and I finalized the thought today.  Damn.  Fishing is the one thing I do where concentration completely clears the mind of any problems or worries.  But even in the outstandingly beautiful fall weather and good fishing my mind came back to this election.  That's what bama has done.  Ruined my fishing.

With a tip of the chapeau to KenoshaMarge (http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com), "PAC formed, Press Conference 9/26, Goal:  To Defeat Obama."  From Democracy in Suffrage (http://democracyinsuffrage.blogspot.com/):

"Supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton, from across the country, will hold a press conference to announce the Kick Off to their Nation Wide Pre Election initiative to defeat Senator Obama.
The press conference will be held on Friday, September 26th at the Capital Rotunda located in Harrisburg Pennsylvania and will promptly begin at 11 a.m.

As Stated back in March in a Clinton press release.

A friend managed to find this old press release on the Clinton website and I think it contains truths that should not remain hidden.  The site has been fairly well cleaned up so only a geek could have found this one.  Please read on.  His lies were lies then and still lies now.  Since this is a press release I am posting the entire thing.  Blockquoting left out in order to preseve formatting.

So I hear that do to the hurricane, Barry won't be doing SNL tonight.

Damn.  I really really wanted to see him do the sketch with Tina Fey playing Sarah Paylin.

I'm sure they'll clean up the show in order to show respect for a few hundred thousand people who are now homeless.  At least I think they are.  Haven't watched the news since leaving for dinner.  Went to Caraba's which really sucks when you're on the Atkin's diet.  I had chicken, brocoli and green beans.  WooHoo.

So the question this evening is.  Will Obama have all of Galveston back in their homes by Wednesday?

I've been wanting to write this for sometime but held off due to my fear of women and more importantly, my fear of offending old friends.

Please don't kick me too hard and promise that if what I say smacks of sexism, you'll educate me rather than hate me.  I'm an old, dirty old, guy and I'm trying to learn but I have a problem with PC and a worse problem with tact.

This post is more an observation than a theory.  It is my view of what happened to Hillary that should never have happened.  Something I hope people learn from should she or another woman run in 2012.

Women, you really are your own worst enemy.