By SusanUnPC on Jan 13, 2009 in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department | 186 Comments
THIS THREAD is closing. Please move to the thread above. BTW: The television coverage is on C-Span2 but the Washington Post has a live feed as does C-Span. Watch or listen to the hearings live via C-Span. Athough C-Span indicates the hearing begins at 10 a.m., the official U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing announcement [...]
By Joseph Wilson on Apr 17, 2008 in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, NATO, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., William Ayers | 50 Comments
Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted with express permission. __________________________________ Senator Obama’s ill-conceived remarks likening small town Americans to embittered guns-and-God bigots have triggered a justifiable furor. Not only are the remarks insulting, but also factually incorrect. As it happens, at the same event in San Francisco, Senator Obama made other remarks, equally startling, insulting [...]
By SusanUnPC on Dec 18, 2007 in Clinton, Foreign Aid, Health Care, Obama, Presidential Candidates, Women and Children | 38 Comments
[You can talk] to women — from the Philippines to Latin America to the Middle East — who can vote, own property, or go to school, because Hillary Clinton helped start a global women’s movement for women’s rights. [You can travel] to Africa and Asia, where Hillary Clinton visited countless remote villages to show how [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 28, 2007 in Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Israel, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments
UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian NYT: WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 22, 2007 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Iraq | 30 Comments
– Cartoon by Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sent to me by Leslie Next, from McClatchy’s top article today, “Constant filibuster threat is tying Senate in knots“:
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