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With a mere investment of $780,000 Soros and his allies were able to suborn free elections in the states of Montana, West Virginia, Missouri, Oregon, in 2008, and in Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Nevada and Iowa, in 2006. How did he achieve so much with so little? He founded a 527 group which funded candidates in one kind of race in which the victor has the most influence over election integrity, and in which there is so little political competition: the Secretaries of State. In each State the SoS job is entrusted with overseeing the protection of free and fair...

History's most notorious Georgian-turned-Russian, the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." The lesson has not been lost on the increasingly notorious Hungarian-cum-American George Soros. A group backed by Soros is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for President Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation. From such posts, secretaries of state can help tilt the electoral playing field. This is, of course, the same Soros, the same hyperpolitical left-wing philanthropist who makes no secret of...

In 2006, the Democrats, Moveon.org and George Soros were pissed. Not only had George W. Bush survived his 2000 election, but he won reelection in 2004 handily. The most galling part of the 2004 election for the Dems was the state of Ohio. Ohio's Republican Secretary of State had not only kept out questionable ballots that would have benefitted the Dems, but the Secretary allowed in ballots for Bush that seemed unkosher to the lefties. Bush carried Ohio and got 4 more years. What to do? What to do? The next election cycle, in 2006, saw the Lefties' creation of...

Why does California have a Lt. Governor's office AND a Secretary of State's office? How much money could we (California) save if we removed the giblets this Thanksgiving? Enjoy my latest piece, if you are interested in Constitutional politics this evening... As we move toward a thankful break this Thursday, I want to offer a small dish of giblets. If you spend any amount of time preparing for the holiday feast, you are familiar with the Thanksgiving giblets; in most homes these giblets are unwanted parts that are quickly tossed into the trash or fed to the family dog. The...

Politics: The former Stuart Smalley becomes the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the community organizers at Acorn and the little-known Secretary of State Project. Is the system being rigged? Incumbent Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat in the mother of all recounts in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race after the state's Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit. Arguably, his seat may have been lost the day in 2006 when Democrat Mark Ritchie defeated two-term incumbent Republican Mary Kiffmeyer to become Minnesota secretary of state. It was Ritchie who orchestrated the recount that gave Democratic challenger Franken a lead some...

When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, observers wondered how the Obama Administration had won Micheletti's agreement. That's because the pact allowed for Zelaya to be restored to office before Honduras' Nov. 29 presidential election - a prospect Micheletti had fiercely opposed. But as the dust settles, the more common question this week is, What was Zelaya thinking when he signed this accord? The Oct. 30 agreement, in fact, leaves it to the Honduran congress to...

Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. If anyone doubted those nine words summed up the Obama Doctrine, look at what the president's team perpetrated last week in Honduras. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon and Dan Restrepo, the National Security Council's senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, visited the Honduran capital in Tegucigalpa on Wednesday to compel the country's recalcitrant democrats to make a deal with the man the latter had lawfully removed from the presidency on June 28. It remains to be seen whether, pursuant to this deal, former President Manuel Zelaya will be restored to...

Zelaya threatened to kick the board if not immediately restored Micheletti's supporters are in no hurry to convene Congress to rule on the restitution of the deposed president 9 votes 147 reviews Decrease font fuenteAumentar Will print email JOAQUIM IBARZ | MEXICO (CORRESPONDENT) | 01/11/2009 | Updated at 19:15 pm | International We are where we were. As feared the most skeptical, the agreement just last Friday, is far from solving the crisis in Honduras. Whatever their commitments, each of the parties interpreted the agreement at its convenience. The de facto government supporters are in no hurry to convene Congress...

At last night's central committee meeting, John Husted announced that the OH Supreme Court, by a 7-0 vote, had declared his residency in Kettering valid and legal, ending all Dem attempts to keep him from running for SoS. He also said he had been approached by high-level Dems with a deal to let him run unopposed for Treasurer, but of course the goal is to get Jennifer Brunner out.

Join the mocking of Hillary in the latest DFU SING-ALONG -- I'M NOT WILLIE She was not pleased at all in Congo. Come on, Congoistas, she is sec of state, not Bill. And isn't the former first lady looking trim and fit these days?

MIDI - I'M NOT LISA I'm not Willie...my name is Rodham I'm the Sec-re-tary of State I rode on his coattails to get where I now am In his shadow, is that my fate? I put up with his crap...I felt like such a sap Philandering and such humiliation I would be president...it was so evident That porky girl...caused such trouble plenty...plenty It's name was Arturo Fuente...one fine cigar I'm not Willie...my name is Rodham I'm the Sec-re-tary of State I rode on his coattails to get where I now am In his shadow, is that my fate? I'm...

Files New Motion in Lawsuit on Behalf of State Department Foreign Service Officer Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- July 8, 2009 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that on July 2 it filed a motion with a special panel of three federal judges in the District of Columbia asking the court to declare Hillary Clinton ineligible to serve as Secretary of State. The Judicial Watch lawsuit, filed on behalf of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer and State Department employee David C. Rodearmel, maintains that the "emoluments clause"...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had successful two-hour surgery today to repair her broken right elbow, her chief of staff said. Mrs Clinton tripped and fell in the State Department's basement on Wednesday ... Mrs Clinton has several foreign trips planned in the coming weeks ...

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Clinton was recuperating at home Thursday, figuring out how to send text messages and emails as she nurses a broken right elbow that will require surgery to mend, her spokesman said. "She is at home resting comfortably -- or uncomfortably," said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. "She is working from home. She has already taken some calls, and I'm sure learning … how well you can text with one arm in a sling." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/18/2009-06-18_hillary_clinton_takes_a_spill_breaks_her_elbow.html#ixzz0IoZGaEOW&C

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher asks Hillary Clinton a direct question and she totally redirects and fails to provide any answer. This does not sit well with Rep. Rohrabacher.

Hillary Clinton finds the piracy situation to be rather amusing...or she is drunk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_c3B5AasI

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday a potential missile launch by North Korea would be a provocative act that would have consequences for talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Clinton's comments came as a U.S. official said North Korea had positioned what is believed to be a long-range ballistic missile on a launch pad in what could be a preparation for a launch. "We have made it very clear that the North Koreans pursue this pathway at a cost and with consequences to the six-party talks which we would like to see revived and moving...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Beijing for wide-ranging talks with China's leaders. Topics for discussion are expected to include the economy, human rights, climate change and North Korea. Mrs Clinton is on the final leg of her inaugural Asian tour, which has included visits to Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Speaking earlier in Seoul, she urged North Korea to holds talks with the South and end its nuclear ambitions. The BBC's James Reynolds, in Beijing, says people are waiting to see if Mrs Clinton will publicly raise the thorny issue of human rights. In the past,...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged a new American openness to ideas from abroad, especially the Muslim world, during a visit Wednesday to Indonesia. Anti-U.S. protests were held in several cities, with some Islamic hard-liners setting tires on fire and others throwing shoes at caricatures of Clinton, but the rallies were small and scattered. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is the second stop in Clinton's inaugural overseas trip as the top U.S. diplomat. She said that was "no accident," with the trip designed to show support for the country's hard-won democracy as well...

Check out the video clip of Hillary Clinton, in Japan, speaking to Andrea Mitchell about the situation in North Korea: HILLARY CLINTON: I want to make it as clear as I can, as I have on numerous occasions, that if the North Koreans do decide to fulfill their obligations and achieve de-nuclearization and end proliferation, there are opportunities awaiting them that I think would be very attractive. One sentence. Four uses of the first-person singular. References to President Obama, or the United States of America? Zero. Hillary’s statement reads as if she were president, not that other guy. Whatever his...

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will shape American engagement with the Middle East for years to come. While Mrs. Clinton prepares to put together the State Department, the military is already reconsidering American policy in critical regions. The politically savvy General Petraeus has both a plan and the resources to see it through.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Vice President-elect Joe Biden let it slip that her husband had a pick of two jobs in the Obama administration.

(CNN) — Senate Foreign Relations Committee [chairman] John Kerry expects a "fair and expeditious" hearing for the nomination of Hillary Clinton to secretary of state, a Kerry spokesman told CNN. Frederick Jones, director of communications for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the financial information disclosed by Clinton and her husband has not highlighted any problems, though there are some areas where "additional clarification is needed."

ON THIS THREAD it was announced that Hillary's confirmation is on Jan. 13. We have 10 copies of HILLARY! UNCENSORED that have to be physically handed to the aides of the GOP Senators who will be voting in committee. We will FEDEX tomorrow. Is there a FReeper who can take delivery and hand carry them to the staffs of the Senate Foreign Relations committee for their bosses. I have spoken to a few of them. At least one may be interested in challenging Hillary. Included with the film, we have talking points and questions that need to be asked....

THIS FILM HAS BEEN ON GOOGLE VIDEOS SINCE 10/07 - it has now been pulled I spoke with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and learned that Hillary's confirmation hearing in the committee is set for Jan. 13. They set aside two days for the "grilling." Co-incidentally, a film clip that has been on Google, and seen more over 10 million people, has been sudden pulled after 15 months. I have been contacting GOP members of the committee and sending them info so they may be able to ask a few questions of the junior senator from New York,...

WASHINGTON -- A former top aide to ex-President Bill Clinton will be tapped as Hillary Rodham Clinton's No. 2 at the State Department this week, The Associated Press has learned. James Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, will be nominated for deputy secretary of state as early as Tuesday, people familiar with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the appointment is not yet public.

No, this is not surprising. Christine Varney, a Clinton insider who worked for the Clinton administration, is charged with vetting Bill for the Hillary Sec of State nomination. Gee, there's no conflict of interest there, huh? Varney has been provided with important information about the MARC RICH PARDON that she is ignoring. This vetting process is a total fraud. The info has also been given to the office of Arlen Specter. Yes, you don't need to tell me. That's a dead end for the truth. Please send this info to the media. Maybe there is an honest reporter left in...

Clinton for sale By posting this am I saying that Bill Clinton is different from any other powerful politician, in taking money from foreign donors who obviously hope to influence the political process? No, in this Bill Clinton is not singular. But look at this list: $10 million to $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Between $1 million and $5 million each from Saudi businessman Nasser Al-Rashid, Friends of Saudi Arabia, the Dubai Foundation, and the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei and Oman. And the New York Post here is worried about money from India keeping Hillary from...

HEAR THE CONFIDENTIAL WITNESS TALK ABOUT MARC RICH AND THE 250 MIL ORIGINAL THREAD WITH CHRISTINE VARNEY BIO...she worked for Clinton

To my Conservative Friends: Hillary is shaking down Obama's donors to pay off her debt.... The woman has no shame... As many of you know, Mz. Hill Shrill is one of my favorite topics for me to cover.... She gives us conservatives countless episodes and quotes and memorable photos that keep our conservatives fires going... So, to that end, here is another tale from the land of Shrill Valley... Madame Secretary has asked our new President to ask his donors to finish off paying her campaign debt to the tune of app. $7 Million, almost $5 Million of that to...

The big news this week from the nascent Obama administration was the naming of Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Secretary of State. This was a noteworthy choice to say the least. For more than twelve months of campaigning against each other the primary issue of contention between Clinton and Obama was, after all, foreign policy. Did she not spend a disproportionate amount of her campaign questioning not simply Obama's positions on foreign policy, but indeed his very fitness for office on that basis? It is a head-scratcher, and it raises some interesting questions. -Who will be leading our foreign policy?...

To my Conservative Friends: Do you remember about a year ago today leading up to the first primaries and caucuses? Hillary Rotten was ahead by double digits in every poll against her obviously unqualified, wet behind-his-BIG-ears, novice challenger Barack Hussein Obama... It was a foregone conclusion, the nomination for the Democruds was her destiny, her birthright. She was on top of the mountain singing: I am woman, hear me Shrill!!!!!! Look at her now - after having her pantsuit handed to her by this "kid" from the south side, she crawled away in shame..... I tell ya - that Barry...

You remember the Orwell novel 1984? There was a vivid description of a "Ministry of Truth" that served the function of rewriting history via rewriting the news in order to make the past jibe with whatever Big Brothers current program happened to be. Well, it turns out that Barack Obama needs a Ministry of Truth of his own. Hillary Clinton - who repeatedly described having come under sniper fire in order to bolster her flimsy foreign policy credentials until it was revealed that no such event occurred - is about to become the Obama administration's Secretary of State. And if...

"Don't look right at her! Today, Hillary Clinton was announced as Secretary of State. Coincidentally, today we have launched our Hillusa: Secretary of Snake Campaign. Just as we have and continue to use the Obama Hood Cartoon we will get this to the masses. I encourage anyone with their own blog to download the image and post. Make sure to use tags that say Hillary Clinton Secretary of State + Secretary of Snake. If you don't have your own blog, you can post it on forums. This campaign will be centered around this image appearing in search results for Hillary...

(ALBANY, NY) Sound the trumpets. Bang the drums. Forgotten upstate New York residents plan massive Bye Bye Bashes in anticipation of Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State. Numerous spontaneous grassroots celebrations have sprung up seemingly overnight after the news broke last week that president-elect Barack Obama might tap Hillary for a cabinet position in his new administration. Although not official until tomorrow, Buffalo, upstate’s second largest city, plans a parade down Elmwood Avenue followed by fireworks over the Niagara River. Meanwhile, Adirondack celebrants plan to ski a pumpkin-headed Hillary effigy off the high jump in Lake Placid’s Olympic Village....

A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved says he's organizing plans to challenge, even after the inauguration, every order, every proposal, every piece of paperwork generated by Obama. Barack Obama "We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money , we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status," Gary Kreep, chief of the United States Justice Foundation, told WND...

It seems eligibility is in the news today... regarding Hillary Clinton's eligibility to serve as Secretary of State for the Obama administration... The source of the issue is something called the Emoluments Clause, which is a clause in the Constitution that essentially states that, while a person is serving a term of office to which they were elected, he or she may not be appointed to any civil office which was newly created, or for which the compensation was increased in that same term. So because there was a pay raise given to the position of Secretary of State during...

Hillary might make a fine secretary of state. And I hope the new president picks her. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t vote for either one of them. And I’ve spent a lot of years disliking her. But she can do the job. She might even do it well. I’m a conservative and a Republican, but I’m an American first. And the election having been held and the president having been chosen, I’ve got to not only live with the results, I’ve got to hope and pray for the success of the incoming administration. Because it’s not about Barack Obama,...

Another good sign. When the people who want to kill you think that the chief American diplomat will be too tough on them, you know you are doing something right. More . . .

President-elect Obama has pulled off a feat of daring and difficult diplomacy - clearing the way to invite ex-rival Hillary Clinton into his cabinet as secretary of state, Democratic sources said Thursday night. Obama is planning to formally announce his nomination of the New York senator and former First Lady after Thanksgiving, the sources said. That news came amid word that aides to both sides had resolved complex issues on how to keep former President Bill Clinton's business and charitable activities from posing a conflict. "Financial disclosure issues have been worked out," a source said. "Things are on track." Obama's...

Will Hillary Clinton makea good Secretary of State

By MIKE ALLEN & GLENN THRUSH Negotiations between the Clintons and President-elect Obama’s transition team are rapidly moving toward a formal offer of secretary of State for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), with both sides expecting a formal announcement in the next seven days, according to numerous officials who are involved. As a key part of satisfying Obama’s vetting team, former President Bill Clinton is open to giving up foreign sources of income if she becomes secretary of State, according to a close friend. Read the article at ObamaHood.org

When Hillary coupled her defense of regular, blue-collar Americans with pragmatic, hawkish positions on Iran (at one point she basically said she'd turn the place into a parking lot if they hit Israel) and in foreign policy generally (no unconditional meetings with dictators and thugs), she came more to the right, and even to the point, gasp, that conservatives actually hope she becomes Secretary of State.

More back door Clinton politics and deals. WASHINGTON - We may soon be calling Hillary Rodham Clinton “Madame Secretary.” President-elect Barack Obama is considering the New York senator and former first lady for secretary of state - an appointment that would go a long way toward healing the wounds left by their bruising Democratic primary. Two Democratic officials confirmed that Clinton - long rumored to be a contender for the job - is under serious consideration. Adding to the intrigue, Obama and Clinton met yesterday in Chicago, according to a Democratic official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because...

Looks like Lurch loses again.

Last week, radio king Rush Limbaugh riffed on the idea of “the haughty John Kerry” being appointed Secretary of State in an Obama Administration, traveling the globe and stepping in it wherever he went. Not a bad choice, but if we’re going to try getting our money’s worth in entertainment over the next four years – given that we’ll be paying top dollar – how about Al Gore for the job? Forget any sort of environmental leadership position that would limit him to America – The Goracle simply cannot be contained. Within mere days of the Obama win, Gore exploded...

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Jake Tapper and Z. Byron Wolf report: Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was President-elect Barack Obama’s leading rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is being considered for the job of secretary of state in the Obama administration, sources with knowledge of the transition process tell ABC News. Discussions about Clinton, D-N.Y., being asked to accept the post are "very serious," an Obama source says. Asked about the reports on the Cabinet post and another report that Hillary Clinton went to Obama’s home base of Chicago today, senior Hillary Clinton adviser Philippe Reines said, "Any speculation about cabinet...

"President Elect Obama has promised that his cabinet will be bi partisan, that he will govern from the middle and listen to everyone’s opinion. He has not yet named anyone for any of the cabinet posts, but names are being floated around. Which ones would you like to see, or not see, as Secretary of State in the next administration ?"

Just heard on Fox News that John Kerry is being considered for Secretary of State if obama wins the prize.