It’ll be a Democratic panderfest this coming weekend in Selma, Alabama as Senators Clinton and Obama – both vying for the Dem nomination for president – are scheduled to speak just yards away from each other:
On the heels of Dem presidential contender Senator Obama’s SC visit, another presidential hopeful – Senator Hillary Clinton – was in Columbia, SC yesterday pandering to about 1,500 people at Allen University. The university, as the AP describes it, is an historically black college. One ‘issue’ Senator Clinton brought up was the Confederate flag, which has been the subject of ongoing controversy in SC to the point that the NAACP’s long-standing boycott on SC is still in effect. Hillary is against the flag being displayed on Statehouse grounds (it used to be displayed on the Statehouse dome), and one of the reasons she’s against it will surprise you:
John Fund asks: Why isn’t the Sandy Berger scandal major news? And not just from a perspective of him taking classified documents and stuffing them in his pants and stashing some of them under a construction trailer, but why he did it. What was he trying to hide and why? Fund speculates on the answers – and says Congress and America deserves to know them.
Greg Tinti has a recap and analysis of a proposal Senator Hillary Clinton is introducing in the Senate for Iraq. In a nutshell, she’s calling for “phased redeployment” and we know what that means. You can view the video of Hillary’s presser here:
The inspector-general for the National Archives has just released a report detailing what former National Security Advisor under President Clinton Sandy Berger did with those highly classified documents he was caught taking from the National Archives. Josh Gerstein at the NY Sun reports:
How many times have we heard from Bubba that if only he’d had more time as president, he could have done something about the threat from North Korea, the threat from Al Qaeda, and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians? The woman who was his co-president during his time in the WH expressed such a sentiment yesterday with her response to the criticism her hubby has recieved in recent weeks over what he did and did not do about the growing terrorist threat from OBL:
