Ever since Lenslinger mentioned seeing Chelsea’s thong, I’ve been keeping an eye on her. She was wearing a tight pair of jeans recently, and it looked as though she might have a big butt, but that isn’t in fact the case. Not only does she appear to be well proportioned, Chelsea Clinton is incredibly poised and may be the most gifted speaker I’ve ever seen. I’ve looked at a lot of video and cannot find one instance of her uttering so much as an “uh.”
It’s incredible and betrays a beautiful mind. Are we witnessing the most able young pol in our midst?
From Scott Peterson and Howard LaFranchi at the CSM:
Iran’s intervention comes as previously undisclosed details are emerging of a secret meeting between Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, other senior Iraqi officials, and the commander of Iran’s Qods Force, Brig. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in April, after clashes with Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra. In that meeting, General Soleimani “was deeply concerned” and “promised to stop arming groups in Iraq and to ensure that groups halt activities against US forces,” according to a description given by a US official to the Monitor.
Soleimani gave Mr. Talabani a “message” for US Gen. David Petraeus, too. He noted that his portfolio includes Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon and that he was willing to “send a small team” to “discuss any issue” with the Americans…
Doubt on the US side runs deep, though Soleimani listed Iranian aims and even “common goals with the United States” in Iraq that virtually mirror stated US policy points, according to the description of the meeting.
“When we first saw it, we thought it was too good to be true,” says the American official who provided details of the talks. “But there are so many layers of gray.”…
Sadr was now the biggest threat to peace in Iraq, Soleimani said, echoing past Pentagon assessments. “We now recognize [that] Sadrists have gotten outside anyone’s control” which is a “dangerous development for Iraq, for Iran and for all Shia,” he indicated, according to the description. Iran could not control Sadr even in Iran, where the cleric is currently taking advanced religious training, and his return to Iraq would “be a big danger.”
Iran’s “only demand,” Soleimani is said to have told Talabani, was that the anti-Iranian group Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK or MKO), some 3,400 of whose militants still reside under US guard at Camp Ashraf, be forced to leave Iraq. US and Iraqi officials, too, have long been looking for ways to disband the camp.
Just take a look at recent Republican primary results, largely overlooked because McCain locked up the necessary 1,191 delegates long ago. In Indiana, McCain got 77% of the recent Republican primary vote, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, who’ve each long ago quit and endorsed McCain, still got 10% and 5% respectively, while Paul took 8%.
On the same May 6 in North Carolina, McCain received less than three-quarters of Republican votes (74%), while Huckabee got 12%, Paul 7% and Alan Keyes and No Preference took a total of 7%.
Pennsylvania was even slightly worse for the GOP’s presumptive nominee, who got only 73% to a combined 27% for Paul (16%) and Huckabee (11%)…
In the last three months, Paul’s forces, who donated $34.5 million to his White House effort and upward of a million total votes, have, as The Ticket has noted, been fighting a series of guerrilla battles with party establishment officials at county and state conventions from Washington and Missouri to Maine and Mississippi. Their goal: to take control of local committees, boost their delegate totals and influence platform debates.
Paul, for instance, favors a drastically reduced federal goNobody told these supporters of Texas Rep. and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that the French can’t vote in American electionsvernment, abolishing the Federal Reserve, ending the Iraq war immediately and withdrawing U.S. troops from abroad.
“Every election season America is presented with a series of false choices,” Texas Rep. Ron Paul writes in his new book. “And so every four years we are treated to the same tired predictable routine: two candidates with few disagreements on fundamentals pretend that they represent dramatically different philosophies of government.”…
Paul’s Paulunteers have driven his brand-new book — ‘The Revolution: A Manifesto’ — to No. 1 on the amazon.com bestseller list. They’re also packing the reader reviews with five-star evaluations, as they’ve been packing the comment columns of blogs like this for many months.
Paul’s call to conservative, libertarian-like action is even selling better than Oprah’s latest book recommendation. According to Lew Rockwell’s blog, Paul’s book will rocket into seventh spot on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list later this month.
Review
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., former member of Congress : “The real truth about Liberty. This book takes a wrecking ball to the political establishment. Senator Goldwater would have loved it — it’s The Conscience of a Conservative for the 21st century.”
Product Description
This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.
* The government is expanding.
* Taxes are increasing.
* More senseless wars are being planned.
* Inflation is ballooning.
* Our basic freedoms are disappearing.
The Founding Fathers didn’t want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America. Unfortunately, that beautiful, ingenious, and revolutionary document is being ignored more and more in Washington. If we are to enjoy peace, freedom, and prosperity once again, we absolutely must return to the principles upon which America was founded. But finally, there is hope . . .
In THE REVOLUTION,Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has exposed the core truths behind everything threatening America, from the real reasons behind the collapse of the dollar and the looming financial crisis, to terrorism and the loss of our precious civil liberties. In this book, Ron Paul provides answers to questions that few even dare to ask.
Despite a media blackout, this septuagenarian physician-turned-congressman sparked a movement that has attracted a legion of young, dedicated, enthusiastic supporters . . . a phenomenon that has amazed veteran political observers and made more than one political rival envious. Candidates across America are already running as “Ron Paul Republicans.”
“Dr. Paul cured my apathy,” says a popular campaign sign. THE REVOLUTION may cure yours as well.
Last month Paul forces read the party rule book in Missouri and elected about a third of the delegates to the state convention that will pick the delegates to the national convention.
Last weekend in Nevada they drove through a rules change in the state party convention that halted the approval of pre-approved slates of convention delegates as a means to eventually substitute their own supporters to travel to St. Paul and boost Paul’s delegate totals for platform and other struggles this fall.
Using sophisticated communications techniques on the Nevada convention floor in Reno, Paul supporters transmitted mass text messaging to maneuver and direct their troops. When Paul appeared to speak, the ovation was thunderous.
At other times they shouted down the convention chair, Sen. Bob Beers. Taken by surprise the convention organizers and the McCain camp, which for instance had no supply of campaign signs to compete with the blizzard of Paul signs, eventually adjourned the convention in chaos without electing any delegates.
The excuse was the expiration of the convention’s contract with the host casino. No new convention date was announced. The Ron Paul crews move on to their next target.
Paul’s supporters are continuing to organize for upcoming contests, including in Georgia, Washington state and Minnesota, where Paul will be trying to cobble together as much support as he can. The Nevada strategy might not work, however, if McCain’s supporters show up in full strength.
Some U.S. Christians are not reconciled to McCain’s candidacy but instead regard the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people. These militants look at former Baptist preacher Huckabee as “God’s candidate” for president in 2012. Whether they can be written off as merely a troublesome fringe group depends on Huckabee’s course…
At McCain headquarters, no doubt is expressed about Huckabee’s loyalty. “I feel we haven’t used him [Huckabee] enough,” McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told me. McCain’s strategists are more concerned that the libertarian Rep. Ron Paul has not abandoned his candidacy, keeps fighting for delegates and says he will not endorse McCain.
Even taking Huckabee’s professions of support for McCain at face value, he is not leaving politics for the lecture circuit. He has formed the Huck PAC to back Republican candidates, his supporters have established a Web site (Huck4America.com), and Huckabee backers are behind the Government Is Not God PAC, which aims to discourage McCain from naming Romney as his vice president.
