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The United States needed Obama when he came along. Without him and his disregard for the American Way and the Laws of the US the conservatives would have been whistling in the wind. No one was listening that we were going down the wrong path. No one paid attention to facts during the Bush Administration. It was a given that Bush created our problems when in fact it was Bush who tried to resolve problems and set the country in the right direction that the Democrats derailed time after time and the MSM blamed Bush. The country can't turn a...

The “war room”, the hub of attack, counter-attack and spin which was at the heart of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns in the 1990s, has swung back into action with renewed force after Hillary Clinton was bloodied by her rivals for the first time in a debate last week. With so few stumbles on the road to the presidential nomination, her war room has barely been needed until now but it has quietly been prepared for the moment when she trips up. It was Hillary Clinton who invented the war room during her husband’s campaign and she has developed her own...

In an interview in the Guardian, former president Bill Clinton relates how Nelson Mandela guided, counseled, and comforted him in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. According to Clinton, Mandela told him of how “he forgave his oppressors because if he didn’t they would have destroyed him.” Clinton recalls Mandela as having said, “They destroyed my marriage. They abused me physically and mentally. They could take everything except my mind and heart. Those things I would have to give away and I decided not to give them away.” And then Mandela added, “Neither should you.” Clinton took a leaf...