The devil if I know what they are....
Time to put the car in reverse:
"Seeking to move past a scandal that has embroiled his administration and threatened his political future, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey on Friday announced the resignation of the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey."
For the record:
"Bill Clinton aides strove to build legacy in 2nd term" by Ken Thomas | Associated Press March 29, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Bill Clinton’s top aides began debating how to build a presidential legacy days after he won reelection in 1996, newly released documents show.
For me it is his accelerated push towards what his predecessor called a "big idea, a New World Order," in the form of NAFTA and corporate globalization while paving the foundations for his successor to carry out military aggression in the Middle East.
The 2,500 pages of documents released Friday from the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., ranged from drafts of Clinton’s speeches to memos exploring ways of dealing with climate change, Republican opponents, and the media.
Related: Conceding the Nomination to Clinton
It was the third batch of records to be released since February, part of roughly 30,000 pages of previously withheld documents expected to be disseminated to the public through the Clinton library and the National Archives in the coming weeks.
The records are being closely scrutinized by reporters and others as Clinton’s wife, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton, contemplates a second presidential campaign in 2016.
Probably why I'm not taking much an interest in the filtered focus of coverage.
After Bill Clinton won a sweeping reelection against Republican Bob Dole, the White House started working on ways of cementing the president’s legacy. The Nov. 24, 1996, memo written by Clinton adviser Gene Sperling urged aides to choose topics carefully and said some approaches might be rejected even if the administration had addressed them successfully.
What about governing for the good of the country?
Sperling’s memo said ‘‘legacy aspirations’’ must have ‘‘achievable impact.’’ Sperling, who until recently served as President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, said the way that administration officials define or emphasize a major issue can be crucial in determining whether it will contribute to a lasting legacy.
Related: Obama's Legacy
Just shining a light on it, if that's not too eliti$t for you (tell Mom I said sorry).
He cited Clinton’s first-term effort to overhaul the nation’s health care system, which became a major political defeat when Congress rejected it. ‘‘The national debate made people more aware of various health care costs,’’ Sperling said, even if it fell short of the main goal: a sweeping new law.
It's going to cost Obummer the Congre$$, too.
‘‘If we had defined our health care aspirations as a means to inform Americans of the importance of cost awareness,’’ Sperling wrote, ‘‘our efforts might now be seen as having been more successful.’’
This move-the-goal-posts illusion and imagery isn't fooling anyone, guys! That's why the poll numbers are down!
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Clinton’s hopes for a sterling legacy were hurt in January 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted.
One of the documents released Friday notes that when Hillary Clinton was invited for a Voice of America interview shortly after the Lewinsky scandal broke, a VOA staff member and Hillary Clinton press aide Julie E. Mason exchanged e-mails that signaled concern that listeners might call in with questions about the White House intern.
‘‘I was thinking that perhaps we could invite a couple of reporters in just to sit in a studio next door and listen to her do the interview. Caveat: there may be questions from callers around the world on the Monica story. This would bring HRC right into the story in the US,’’ wrote US Information Agency official Meg Lynn.
As the Lewinsky scandal continued in 1998, aides offered advice to Clinton’s speechwriters on how to use the State of the Union address in January to rebuild public confidence in the president.
Minyon Moore, the president’s public liaison, wrote in a memo that Clinton’s supporters “need to be reassured on several fronts.” She also suggested that Clinton invoke God “as the underpinning for his policy and thought process.”
At bottom the Lewinsky scandal was Israel's attempt to compromise and blackmail Clinton, something he willingly obliged.
The scandal I want investigated is the Mena air base gun- and drug-running operations with the proceeds having been laundered through allegedly bad Whitewater real estate investments.
The White House also debated hardball strategies to undercut Republicans and garner favorable press coverage.
If you toe the line and push the agenda, your fine.
In July 1995, the White House considered enlisting disease victims to help criticize Republican-led budget cuts. Public anger over reductions in meat inspections was ‘‘wounding the Republicans,’’ the memo said.
Now it is food stamps cuts that have done it.
Related: 25 firms to cut use of drugs in meat
Never made print.
‘‘This would be an opportunity to once again hit them,’’ wrote chief speechwriter Michael Waldman. ‘‘We could, for example, have an event with E-coli families.’’
Sickened and poisoned people to be used as political props? Gross.
That same month, as the White House prepared for a fierce budget battle with congressional Republicans, Waldman identified specific reporters who might be granted interviews with the president. ‘‘A carefully thought-through leak strategy is needed,’’ he wrote.
That is what mouthpieces, 'er, newspapers are for.
Other documents underscored longstanding policy challenges such as addressing climate change....
PFFFFT!
Why Is Spring So Late?
Yeah.
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In my rear view mirror I first find:
Alleged killer of sailor in Virginia had record
I'll just keep firing away, folks:
Back Paging the Back Bay Fire
Still front page (and more) news:
As firefighters mourned, probe focuses on heating system
For longtime chaplain, a duty that never gets easier
Firefighters more likely to die in training, crashes
Prayers, offerings pour in as two firefighters mourned
Firefighters’ mourning rituals steeped in tradition
None hurt as Cambridge office roof blaze is quelled
I'm on fire with the unread links:
Navy says a sad goodbye to arson-damaged submarine
Two are charged in arson that killed Conn. woman
Conn. governor says he will run for reelection
The fire in Massachusetts' GOP politics:
GOP candidates for governor continue wrangling
Related: Baker Makes Fish(er) Cakes
Aide to Romney, Brown pursuing a theology degree
Related: Shaheen's Shadow
Whipping down to R.I.
Deputy whip in R.I. House faces questions
Related: $peaking Up in Rhode Island
Bedford intensifies investigation into anti-Semitic incidents
Bedford: Searching for tolerance, intelligently
I'm tired of the self-inflicted, false flag hoaxes and "so called anti-Semitic events that turn out to have been actually committed by the very people complaining about them (h/t)" that serve to push the agenda of Jewish victimhood.
So what does Israel have planned that is going to be real bad? Nuke bomb on the stolen Malaysian flight being flown into New York?
I mean, between the mystery of the missing plane and Obummer speaking off-the-cuff about a nuclear explosion in New York, what with Israel closing embassies that test hot for radiation, and U.S. forces on East Coast alert, what are we to think?
Gonna need scapegoats so:
Police investigate threats in Justina Pelletier case
My anger misplaced and miracle workers are just doing their job.
I'm tired of Remyniscing now, so looking forward I can see I am not married to this article and it will just make it easier to surrender the section to the recycling bag.
