[careinke]

I think I just fell in love with a democrat.

Local or national?

Tulsi Gabbard, the interesting D Congresswoman from Hawaii.

[Plantagenet]

The MSM is reporting that FBI director tried to go public about the Russians hacking the US election in July 2016---well before the election.

But Obama stopped him.

Why in heck did Obama approve Comey making public statements about the investigation of Hillary prior to the election, but blocked Comey from talking about the investigation of the Russians and Trump?

The only possible explanation that Obama was intentionally sabotaging Hillary and boosting Trump prior to the election......

[Cog]

Or there really is nothing there about collusion between Trump and the Russians.

[Plantagenet]

Or there really is nothing there about collusion between Trump and the Russians.

Of course there was no collusion. Or rather---what about the case for collusion between Russians and the Ds?

Who could ever forget the bizarre moment when Obama thought the mic was off and he starts whispering to Medvedev that he should tell Putin to be hold back during the 2012 election campaign because after the election is over Obama will be "flexible" in dealing with Putin's demands, which apparently Putin took as a green light to invade Crimea and Ukraine after the 2012 election.

Obama's statements represent collusion at the highest levels---its direct collusion between Obama and the Russians with regard to the 2012 US election in exchange for Obama promising to make concessions to Russia afterward.


Hey Putie---be nice during the 2012 election and I'll be flexible with your demands afterward

[Plantagenet]

Elizabeth Warren blames Obama for being ignorant and "kicking working class Americans in the teeth."

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I only wish Sen. Warren had the courage to say this during the 2016 campaign.

If she had come out and endorsed Bernie Sanders and campaigned for Bernie it would've really helped---maybe enough to beat Hillary and give Bernie the D nomination.

Then we'd have President Bernie instead of President Trump.

Thanks Obama. Thanks Elizabeth. Thanks DNC. Thanks Hillary.

Thanks to your ignorance---as Elizabeth Warren herself put it----Donald Trump is president.

Cheers!


If the Ds hadn't cheated to help Hillary win against Bernie then Bernie would probably be president now!

[Newfie]

I read the Guardian article. Some years ago when I first heard of Elizabeth Warren and watched one of her presentations I was impressed. Now? Not so much. She seemed pretty lame in that piece. Not a lot of substance. But I'm just a cynical old guy.

[ROCKMAN]

Newfie - I've forced myself to listen to her. Like Bernie she has a good heart IMHO. But like him she has the same semi-socialist f*cked up attitude that it's wrong for anyone to have more then anyone else. And that the primary role of govt is the redistribution of wealth.

Kinda like what got Venezuela where it is today. LOL.

[Newfie]

ROCKMAN,

I've got my top 4 or 5 things that should be addressed. If they are not even mentioning one of those things they go in the "plonk" bucket.

[Plantagenet]

Rockman: Socialism can work, but only when you get the politicians out of running things. State owned enterprises work pretty well in my country. It doesn't really matter who owns the shares so long as the business can run itself properly. Politicians and reality often don't mix, and the cause of that is usually your typical voter.

How do you prevent politicians from running government owned entities?

AND you live in ----- ???-------Australia or New Zealand I think. Neither of those has a socialist economy. Investing retirement funds in the private sector is not socialism....that's capitalism at work. The private sector is making PROFITS for capitalists, i.e. It's shareholders

Cheers!

[ROCKMAN]

S&P - I'll split the difference between the 2 of you: I've seen no socialist system I would care to live in that didn't have a functioning capitalism system supporting it. Nor would I want to live in a purely capitalistic system that didn't use a portion of its wealth to help those that needed support.

Which describe much of the current world that so many folks are risking their lives to reach. IOW you don't see many German illegal immigrants trying to sneak into Nigeria. LOL.

[Plantagenet]

Obama killed US efforts to stop Hezbollah running Cocaine into the US

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Well, I always knew obama was a total sleaze ball, but this latest revelation is pretty amazing.

The Obama administration allowed the terrorist group Hezbollah to run Cocaine into the US. Top government officials blocked efforts to prosecute Hezbollah officials to stop the drug running. Obama officials told US investigators to stand down thereby allowing the drug running to continue. Obama officials stopped efforts to block hundreds of millions of dollars from the drug running operation from going back to the terrorist organization Hezbollah.

The Obama administration allowed a terrorist group to run cocaine into the US to earn money for their terrorist activities.

Cheers!

[dissident]

Hezbollah and cocaine. What a laugh riot. Heroin maybe, but for sure not cocaine. Cocaine is sourced from Latin America and unless Hezbollah has muscled out the Mexicans and the still active Columbian elements, this story is utter propaganda BS. Drug smugglers don't contract out and really, really don't like to share. That is why there is basically a guerrilla war in Mexico as to who controls the delivery of cocaine and other drugs into the USA. How could some Middle Eastern outfit possibly get involved with cocaine?

One could see Hezbollah pulling a FARC and selling heroin or other Central Asian drugs to finance its weapons purchases, but running cocaine is just ludicrous.

[Plantagenet]

You're about 20 years out of date---Pablo Escobar was gunned down by police in 1993 and the Cali cartel was broken up in 1995.

The Columbian government is now a US ally cooperating with the DEA. The cocaine biz there is mostly smashed, with their leadership dead or in jail.

The Venezuelan socialist government has taken over the business, with the Venezelan military and even the family of the Venezuelan president being directly implicated in the cocaine trafficking business.

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The anti-US regime in Venezuela also cooperates closely with Hezbollah, with the US treasury naming Venezuela as a major funding source for Hezbollah

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I wonder how Hezbollah is taking so much money out of Venezuela, when Venezuela is so broke they can't even feed their own people? Could it have something to do with the cocaine biz? We know Hezbollah is trafficking cocaine into the US from the leaks from disgruntled feds angry that Obama killed off their program targeting hezbollah cocaine trafficking, and we know that a likely place for them to get it is in Venezuela, which broke off cooperating with the DEA and where the country's leadership is up to its neck in the cocaine biz.

Unfortunately Obama killed the long-standing effort by federal law enforcement agencies to stop Hezbollah trafficking cocaine into the US and laundering money back to the terorist group in Lebanon.

Cheers!

[Newfie]

Good link Plant. I’m too tired to get through all of it tonight and frankly I just want the executive summary, too many details, I’ll never remember it all. But Politico is a good source.

[Plantagenet]

Congress demands DOJ turn over evidence that Obama blocked investigations of Hezbollah drug running and money laundering in the USA

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The Rs have one more year to investigate Obama's role in allowing Hezbollah to traffic cocaine into the USA before the Ds win Congress next year and drop all these inquires to start impeachment proceedings against Trump.

[Cog]

What platform are the Dems going to run on? Seventeen year record low unemployment, record high stock market, a just passed tax cut, O-Care mandate repealed, and a generalized sense of optimism are the reality. What are the Dems offering to beat the above reality? You need a bit more than Trump sends out tweets that make me feel bad.

[Plantagenet]

Obama is responsible for the abuses and corruption at the FBI, DOJ, IRS etc. that occurred on his watch.

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On the bright side, Obama got a nice official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.


The portrait shows Obama resplendent on a field of marijuana plants.

[Plantagenet]

Former top Obama advisor Ben Rhodes admits that Obama armed jihadists and helped ISIS get started in Syria

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Stupid is as stupid does, the old saying says, and its hard to get much stupider then obama arming and training jihadists in Syria, leading to the creation of ISIS.


Arming and training the jihadists in Syria has got to be one of the stupidest things obama ever did.