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By her own admission, Hillary Clinton is not a natural politician. In fact, Clinton has been something of a gaffe machine over the last four days, averaging one embarrassing flub per day. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton attended the funeral of a fellow first lady, Nancy Reagan. While discussing her legacy with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Clinton stepped in it by saying that Nancy and her husband had started "a national conversation" about HIV/AIDS. Clinton's comment drew outrage ... [Snip] On Saturday, Clinton jabbed her opponent, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), for being all talk and no action on health care...

In Hillary Clinton's new book "What Happened" she details the experience of her 2016 campaign, and tries to answer the question posed by the title: what happened that caused her to lose the election? In the book, and in news appearances, Clinton has pinned her loss on several different factors, such as how journalists covered the election, former FBI Director James Comey, and the questions asked at debates. Here are the 16 reasons Hillary says she lost: 1.Herself: In her book, Hillary blames her "damn emails," her remarks about putting coal miners out of business, and calling Trump's supporters "deplorable."...

"This is me in Scranton,” says the voice of Hillary Clinton over grainy black and white footage of a beaming little girl in a white 1950s dress. “This is where my father was raised and my grandfather worked in the lace mill.” The camera cuts to a shot of a clapboard house, the rustic cottage in the Pennsylvania hills near Scranton where the Rodham family spent every summer. “There was no heat or indoor shower, just the joy of family,” says Mrs Clinton’s voiceover, as the music rises to a crescendo. “I was raised on the American dream . ....

WASHINGTON – A so-called "sweetheart" deal between Enron Corp. and India – brokered with the help of Clinton administration officials during controversial trade junkets in the mid-'90s – ultimately soured and sped the energy giant's collapse, analysts say. After investing more than $1 billion to help build a huge power plant near Bombay, Enron had problems last year getting paid for power generated by the plant – even after sources say former President Clinton lobbied Indian officials on Enron's behalf during his April visit to India. Desperate, Enron chairman Kenneth L. Lay on Sept. 14 fired off a letter to ...

<p>PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opinion Research Corporation, a leading provider of global market research and consulting services, today announced the establishment of a formal polling partnership with CNN, one of the world's most respected and trusted sources for news and information. The CNN Poll will become the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll.</p>

WOMEN'S GROUPS SEEK ENTRY TO PRESIDENT'S INNER CIRCLE; GORELICK CONSIDERED FOR CIA December 3, 1996 President Clinton faces a choice as he returns this week to the business of staffing his administration for a second term: He will either make history by appointing a woman to one of the top spots on his national security team, or risk sorely disappointing many of the very voters who provided his margin of victory in last month's election. This ambivalence is playing itself out in the drama over whether Clinton will name U.N. Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright to be the first female secretary...

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team knew she was going to lose in West Virginia. As I’ve said in a previous post , the state hasn’t gone Republican since 1996 and Romney won every county in 2012. After the Democratic primary on Tuesday, 42 percent of Democrats want the next president to be less liberal, with 44 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters saying they’ll vote for Trump in November. It’s just a more conservative electorate across the board, which is why Clinton’s damage control regarding her remarks about putting coal miners out of business was so offensive. She doesn’t care; she...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: BEHIND THE ABUSE OF POWER ALLEGATIONS SUBSECTION: APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO Revised 1/8/01 APPEARANCE OF QUID PRO QUO Loral - China Missile Guidance Indonesia/Riady - Sweet Coal Webb Hubbell - $700,000 in business in 6 months ($3.5 million?) Teamsters/DNC - Mutual Financial Federal contracts to unionized companies (pending) IMF/Asia AMF (Arkansas) Kabila (Zaire) - mineral and diamond mining rights Barrelo/Intriago - Llanes Hudson/IBP - Tyson COSCO/Long Beach - China Encryption - Perry/Hambrecht &amp; Quist/HUA MEI/Brooks Telecommunications/SCM/Cylink (H&amp;Q also linked with Salon, DNC) Transfer of Hot Seat ...

Jill Stein has lashed out at the suggestion that Russian Facebook ads cost Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton the election. The former Green presidential hopeful was backed by at least one Facebook ad bought by Russia ahead of the 2016 election, with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump also benefiting from the adverts, a Politico report said.

During a speech Monday, the president said he is signing two proclamations which will shrink the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. He called the measures a reversal of federal overreach, and says the move will restore the rights of land to the people of Utah. The president says the residents of the state know how to protect and conserve their own land, and Washington politicians do not. He added, lands must be protected and now will be protected by this new measure.

Chinese Got Long Beach Deal! By Staff Investigative Journalists LONG BEACH DESK - The Long Beach Naval Station was tentatively placed on the Military Base Closure-List by president George Bush in 1991. President Bill Clinton, closed the naval base last in 1993. That resulted in the loss to Long Beach, California of 17,500 military and civilian jobs. The economic impact of the of loss was $52.5 million and drove the California economy into the tank. It has never recovered. Between 1995-1996, during the heat of the Clinton-Gore Campaign fund raising activity, the Clinton administration actively intervened to make sure...

THE ENRON-ESCALANTE SCANDAL... CLINTON &amp; GORE'S MODERN DAY TEAPOT DOME Almost any scam requires the action of joint and several participants, usually in high places, to hoodwink and swindle the little guys of our poor and huddled masses. It doesn&#146;t help when the term conspiracy is recklessly bandied about, as when Hillary accused every one other than her husband&#146;s supporters as being &quot;a vast right wing conspiracy.&quot; But it doesn&#146;t help either when other respected individuals offer they don&#146;t believe in conspiracy theories. Many such disclaimers of conspiratorial cabals were offered during the corrupt Clinton regime, and now, evidence ...

QUID PRO COAL2: CLINTON CORRUPTION + THE SEQUESTRATION OF GASEOUS FOSSILS(HILLARY DOES COAL AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB) by Mia T, 4.27.06 But we have to deal with coal, because we have huge resources of coal. Coal is to us what oil is to Saudi Arabia. And part of our domestic strategy must involve coal. But unless we learn to burn it cleanly, the price of independence from imported oil by using coal will be accelerated global warming. Even if the United States never burned another lump of coal, China is bringing on-line a 1,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant...

New York (CNN) — Hillary Clinton delivered her most forceful critique of President Donald Trump's 2016 victory on Tuesday, taking personal responsibility for her failed campaign but also pointed to the timing of a letter from FBI Director James Comey and Russian interference as factors. "If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president," she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event in New York. "I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems,...

Democrat, Hillary Clinton, yesterday, while traveling in India & her adoring MSNBC Media Goon, Al Veshi bad mouths "Steelworkers" in the "RED" states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, etc., Blue Collar "Steel, etc." Workers as stupid and dumb because they did not vote for her in the POTUS campaign of 2016, won by Republican, Donald J. Trump. The very same Democrat, Hillary Clinton that told West Virginia coal miners, that she, along with Democrats, POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Debbi Wasserman Schultz, etc. would shut down coal mining in the entire USA and they would all...

The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff? By: Sarah Foster When the President signed the Executive Order designating 1.7 million acres of land in southwest Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, his action placed the area off limits to mineral extraction and development. The New York Times reported that the monument encloses the largest coal field in the nation, the Kaiparowitz Plateau, which contains at least 7 billion tons of coal worth over $1 TRILLION. Kentucky-based company Andalux Resources, which holds leases on 3,400 acres in the area, was planning to open a huge operation (underground, not...

Hillary Clinton apologized on Monday for saying in March that she would put coal miners and coal companies “out of business” as part of a transition to alternative energy sources. The Democratic front-runner and former secretary of state called the prior remark a “misstatement” as she campaigned in Kentucky, ahead of the state’s Democratic primary on May 17, CBS News reported. The small group discussion took place in what was once one of the country’s top coal producing counties, as protesters gathered outside. “What I said was totally out of context from what I meant,” Clinton said. “It was a...

Bill Clinton Mocks “The Coal People” Who Oppose Hillary

<p>HARRISBURG -- The Clinton administration's creation of a 1.8 million acre national monument in southern Utah was marked by "deceit" and "chicanery" - even outright lies, according to U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican.</p> <p>Utah's largely GOP congressional delegation and its governor were kept in the dark until just before the announcement on Sept. 18, 1996. Members of Congress apparently were misled about the supposed lack of any maps of the project four days before the announcement.</p>

The shrinking in size of two national monuments in Utah by President Trump through executive order was a long overdue rebuke to federal land grabs that have given federal control to vast swaths of American land, particularly in the West. As the New York Times noted in 2016: The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West. In some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nevada, the majority of land is owned by the federal government. Of course, it used to own nearly all of it... East of the Mississippi…the federal government owns only 4 percent of...