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  • Mitt Romney Says He Is The Best Option For President

    Most politicians like to talk about themselves and brag about how good they are at what they do.

    Mitt Romney has been pretty blunt with his feelings about the presidential candidates and recently said that he knows for a fact that he would make the best president.

    “No question about that in my mind,” the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee told “Fox News Sunday” when he was asked whether he’d make a better president than Clinton.

    “The American people may disagree with me,” Romney explained, “But, look, you’ve got to get this economy going. You have to have people who understand what it takes to create jobs and to help people come out of poverty, to help the middle class to have a better and prosperous future. You’ve got to have that understanding.”

    Romney went on to say that he doesn’t think Clinton has the skills or experience needed to run a country.

    “You’ve also got to have people who’ve actually run something,” he said. “The government of the United States is the largest enterprise in the world. You watched a president who just doesn’t understand how to make an administration work, how to interact with Congress, how to get things done. You have to have those things. I don’t think Hillary Clinton has that experience.”

    The strange thing is, Romney isn’t even running for President. He said that although he feels like he is the right man for the job, he is willing to help whoever wins instead of running for office again himself.

    “I’ve spoken at this time and time again,” he said. “I’m not running. I’m not planning on running. I’m going to be helping the person who takes the banner for us.”

    “There are other good people who I’m sure will be able to lead the country in the future. I wish it were me,” he said. “It was a great experience running for president. I loved that. But my time has…come and gone. I had that opportunity. I ran, I didn’t win. And now, it’s time for someone else to pick up the baton.”

    What do you think of Romney’s opinion of Clinton?

  • Chelsea Clinton Could Be Headed For Politics

    Chelsea Clinton Could Be Headed For Politics

    As the daughter of two of the most recognizable political figures in the U.S., it was inevitable that Chelsea Clinton would be asked about her political ambitions. The 34-year-old has always deflected such questions in the past, but now it appears that Clinton may very well be considering public office in the future.

    According to a new Fast Company interview Clinton is definitely leaving the door open to following her parents into politics. Where in the past she had denied any political ambitions, she now isn’t ruling that out as a future possibility. Clinton’s quote, from the interview:

    “I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives. If at some point that weren’t the case, and I didn’t support my mayor or my city councilwoman or my congresswoman or either of my senators – and I’m lucky to live in a state where I have lots of women representing me, you know – maybe then I’d have to ask and answer the question for myself, and come to a different answer.”

    Clinton told Fast Company that she had tried to strike her own path, but now feels “called” to work with her father’s philanthropic organization. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and says that she feels she has contributions to make in the world. Whether this includes politics is still an open question, as Clinton has stated in the past that she feels political office is not the only way to change the world.

    For years Clinton had done everything but follow in her family’s footsteps. Since graduating from Stanford (and Oxford and Columbia), she has embarked on several different career paths, spending time with consulting agencies and Wall Street firms as well as as recent stint as a special correspondent for NBC news.

    For the time being, Clinton is working with the Clinton Foundation and focusing on issues that matter to her. Many of these issues appear on her social media accounts, where she often highlights stories:

    Post by Chelsea Clinton.

    Image via the Clinton Foundation

  • Hillary Clinton Dodges Shoe While Giving Speech In Las Vegas [Video]

    Well, she certainly has her fair share of haters, but who thought we would see the day where Hillary Clinton has a show thrown at her while on stage giving a speech? Luckily, the former Secretary Of State was not struck, and was able to dodge the shoe, and play it off well.

    A woman was taken into custody following the incident, which took place during a keynote speech that she was giving at a convention in Las Vegas. She has been in the public eye a lot lately, and may be the leading Democratic candidate heading into the 2016 election.

    The incident happened moments after Clinton took the stage before an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting at the Mandalay Bay resort. Shortly after she took the stage, a shoe came flying at her, and before she could figure out what had actually happened, she questioned aloud if it was a bat.

    She was able to evade the aerial attack from the shoe, and even poked fun at the person who threw it when saying “Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.” Clinton also poked fun at the subject matter when saying “My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial.”

    The audience seemed to love the way that she responded, and more than 1,000 people in a large ballroom laughed, and applauded, as Clinton resumed her speech. Hillary Clinton is the former First Lady, and has worked as a senator from the state of New York.

    Brian Spellacy, U.S. Secret Service supervisory special agent in Las Vegas, said the woman was being questioned and would face criminal charges. He has declined to identify who the woman is, and it is unclear exactly what charges she will be facing.

    However, he was able to report that the woman wasn’t a credentialed convention member and wasn’t supposed to have been in the ballroom. It was an unfortunate event for the possible presidential candidate, but luckily she was able to play it off well.

    As of right now, Hillary Clinton is seriously considering a presidential bid, and she has been traveling the country giving paid speeches to industry organizations, and appearing before key Democratic Party constituents. Should she run in 2016? Who thinks she would win?

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  • Monica Lewinsky: Could She Hinder Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run?

    The Monica Lewinsky scandal appears to be rearing its ugly head again, this time, as a GOP strategy to inflict damage to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run.

    The scandal, which remarkably was more than 15 years ago, involved then President Bill Clinton and White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, in a much-publicized affair. What was most offensive and memorable was that Clinton denied the affair repeatedly before finally owning up to the indiscretion, roughly six months after his fervent declaration of innocence.

    When he admitted to the affair, after proof began to surface, he claimed, “I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate,” Clinton said on August 27, 1998. “In fact, it was wrong.”

    Although the Clintons worked through the scandal, and it fizzled years ago, obviously Lewinsky’s name will continue to reemerge in an effort to sully Hillary Clinton’s run for president.

    On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul defended his wife’s, Kelly Ashby’s comment to “Vogue” magazine stating that Bill Clinton’s affair as president with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky was “predatory, offensive to women.”

    “Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky should complicate his return to the White House, even as first spouse,” Ashby told “Vogue.”

    But others seem to think this dirt slinging about an event that occurred over a decade ago is just an attempt at a roadblock to Hillary Clinton’s run for presidency.

    Bill Clinton did say, in a recent LA Times article, titled Clinton Calls GOP Ad Campaign a Ploy, that he hopes the public has seen the “inner changes” in him since he acknowledged his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky and charged that Republicans are using the matter as a campaign issue to distract voters from their unpopular positions on key policies from education to HMO reform.

    “I hope the American people have seen in me over these last few weeks a real commitment to doing what I told them I would do from the beginning: to try to atone to them for what happened and to try to redouble my efforts to be a good president,” Clinton said.

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  • Bill Clinton Wishes His “Other Mother” A Full Recovery

    The former president Bill Clinton has a special relationship with former first lady Barbara Bush – who has been in a Houston, TX hospital since Monday.

    Even though former President George H.W. Bush lost the election to Bill Clinton in 1992 there seems to be no bad blood between them. The two, 41st and 42nd presidents – have become close over the past decade and have teamed up to work on humanitarian issues. The Clinton Bush Haiti fund, being one of the projects they’ve collaborated on together.

    He is especially close to Barbara Bush – calling her his “other mother” and laughs about becoming “part of the family” last April.

    “Starting with my work with President George H.W. Bush on the aftermath of Katrina, people began to joke that I was getting so close to the Bush family, that I had become the black sheep son. My mother told me not to talk too long today, and Barbara, I will not let you down,” Clinton said at the dedication ceremony for George W. Bush’s presidential library in Dallas.

    In a 2012 interview with Parade Magazine, Barbara Bush said her sons call Clinton their “brother by another mother.”

    “He’s very nice-I think he thinks of George as the father he never had,” she added. “Truthfully. I mean that as a great compliment. He’s been very thoughtful about calling and he’s a good fellow.”

    The outspoken former first lady said she was “surprised by the fact that I liked him, truthfully.”

    “And I do like him a lot,” she continued. “And he and George W. have worked together. I think they’re patriots.”

    So it’s no surprise that when he heard about Mrs. Bush’s hospitalization for a respiratory problem – he publicly offered his well wishes – and tweeted them as well.

    Former first lady Barbara Bush is still in the hospital, her condition remains unchanged.

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  • JFK Grave Site To Be Visited By Obama And Clinton

    The 50th anniversary of the former US president, John F. Kennedy will be commemorated on Friday, November 22.  Before the commemoration, President Obama, accompanied by Bill and Hillary Clinton will visit JFK’s grave site on Wednesday, USA today reports.

    An administration official revealed that Obama will make a visit to the Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery accompanied by Michelle Obama and the Clintons.

    Obama will lay a wreath close to the eternal flame. The visit comes 2 days before the November 22nd half-century of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Kennedy was shot twice on Friday, November 22, 1963 as he entered Dealey Plaza in an open Presidential limousine in Dallas.

    On Wednesday Obama will present the Presidential Medals of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian honors) to this year’s recipients in a morning ceremony at the White House.

    Former president, Bill Clinton, will be one of this year’s 16 recipients of the award, according to a statement from the White House. Other awardees include: media mogul and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey,  astronaut Sally Ride, and Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina among others. On Friday, the actual anniversary day, Obama will meet leaders and volunteers from Peace Corps, an organization established by JFK in 1961.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States, holding office from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963 . JFK’s body is buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

    Footage from the day President Kennedy was assassinated

    http://youtu.be/V-LA0ypFXig

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  • Bill: Hillary 2016 Speculation a Waste of Time

    Though President Barack Obama easily won two presidential elections, it doesn’t mean he coasted into the White House. Perhaps his biggest political challenge came before he ran for president in 2008, when he fought Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. Now that Obama’s time as president is coming to an end, speculation has begun that Clinton will again attempt to gain the Democratic nomination for president, which many Democrats believe she should have gotten five years ago.

    With that history in mind, it isn’t surprising that former President Bill Clinton is beginning to field questions about Hillary’s plans for 2016. It’s also not surprising that the former president is already sick of those questions.

    According to a Washington Post report, Bill rebuffed questions about Hillary’s future at a fiscal summit this week. He stated that Hillary is writing books, working with the Clinton foundation, and “having a little fun being a private citizen for the first time in 20 years.” Bill also stated that speculation about a Hillary 2016 campaign is “the worst expenditure of our time.”

    In many ways, Hillary Clinton is the shoe-in for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president. Her candidacy in 2008 was supported by nearly half of Democrats, and it’s easy to imagine the entire party falling in line behind the Clinton name once again. In addition to her experience as a Senator, Hillary now has years of diplomatic experience as U.S. Secretary of State to run on. Also, while Republicans have begun frantically searching for a party spokesperson who can connect with mainstream U.S. voters, no Democratic stars seem to have appeared to challenge current party orthodoxy, and certainly none that could beat Hillary in a Democratic primary. A PPP poll just weeks ago showed that Hillary might enjoy over two-thirds of primary votes in New Hampshire, with Vice President Joe Biden coming a distant second.

  • Chelsea Clinton Apartment Cost a Reported $10.5 Million

    Spending her formative years growing up living in the White House seems to have worked out for Chelsea Clinton. The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State (and presumptive 2016 presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton has just purchased a posh apartment in Manhattan.

    The New York Post is reporting that the 33-year-old and her husband have purchased an apartment right across from Madison Square Park. The 5,000 square foot living space cost a reported $10.5 million. The apartment reportedly has four bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms.

    Both Bill and Hillary were spotted touring the apartment building last week. An unnamed source cited by the post stated that Chelsea and her husband found their new home “while out walking”.

    Chelsea Clinton attended Stanford University during her father’s final term, before attending graduate school at Oxford in England. After graduating, she move to New York City, where she has worked for consulting and investment companies. In 2010 Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky, the son of a former congressman and a former congresswoman. Mezvinsky is an investment banker who has worked for Goldman Sachs and 3G Capital Management.

  • Amelia Earhart: Titanic Discoverer On Board For New Search

    Amelia Earhart: Titanic Discoverer On Board For New Search

    After she disappeared without a trace with her navigator, Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart has captured the fascination of millions as the mystery of what happened to her–and her plane–remain shrouded in shadows. Several extensive searches on her behalf have revealed next to nothing, despite the invention of new technology in the past 75 years to support them.

    A new search mission could change all that.

    A group of historians and scientists from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery want to launch a new search for the wreckage of Earhart’s plane in the waters off the island Nikumaroro–what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati–and they have the full support of Hillary Clinton and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The search will be advised by oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic wreckage.

    Previous search groups believed that Earhart crashed into the ocean, but the IGHAR believes she may have landed on a reef and actually survived there with Noonan for a short time. If this were true, the plane would have been washed off the reef by the tide, meaning it could be sitting in the deep waters nearby after all this time, just waiting to be discovered.

    In previous visits to the island, the group has recovered artifacts that could have belonged to Earhart and Noonan which suggest they might have lived for days or weeks. And after a new analysis of a photo from October of 1937, which the scientists believe show a strut and wheel from a Lockheed Electra–the same model of airplane that Earhart flew–sticking out of the water, they believe they’ve zeroed in on the correct location. Ballard said the photo has helped narrow the search area from thousands of miles to a more manageable size.

    “If you ever want a case of finding a needle in a haystack, this is at the top of the list,” he said.

    Ballard and his team are hoping their theories will at least shed a little more light on what happened during the last hours of Earhart and Noonan’s life. Certainly it will be heartbreaking to find out they survived the crash only to perish alone on an island. But the executive director of the group, Ric Gillespie, says he isn’t concerned with the final outcome as much as how they get there.

    “The most important thing is not whether we find the ultimate answer or what we find, it is the way we look,” he said. “We see this opportunity to explore … the last great American mystery of the 20th century as a vehicle for demonstrating how to go about figuring out what is true.”

    The search will begin during the last week of July and will be filmed for a documentary to air on the Discovery Channel.

    Secretary of State Clinton names Earhart as an inspiration to a nation which was struggling to pull itself out of the Great Depression and says she not only gave people hope, she “inspired them to dream bigger and bolder”. She gave the explorers these final words of wisdom:

    “Even if you do not find what you seek, there is great honor and possibility in the search itself,” she said. “So, like our lost heroine, you will all carry our hopes … We are excited and looking forward to hear about your own great adventure.”

    The public seems intrigued by the opportunity to begin a new search.

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    Valerie Carnevale    SO COOL. the search for amelia earhart’s plane being renewed this summer (i’m mildly obsessed with amelia earhart) http://t.co/3gqzl3Xv(image) 1 minute ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    Mike Steele    Anyone else intrigued by the possibility of finding Earhart’s remains? http://t.co/66Hxi6wg(image) 5 minutes ago via Twitter for Mac ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    Josh Sherfey    This would be so cool if true! Investigators say they’ve found key clue to fate of Amelia Earhart http://t.co/3vA4J10U via @cnn(image) 7 minutes ago via Tweet Button ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

  • Facebook, Google Seek to Expand Dublin Offices

    In Dublin, 40% of offices bought or leased in 2011 were held by American companies, and internet companies like Google and Yelp are seeking more space in the Irish capital. Facebook seeks to double the size of it’s Dublin office, where its European headquarters sits, according to The Washington Post.

    After Ireland borrowed $113 billion from the European Union for an economic bailout in 2010, labor, commercial property values and rents were driven down, prompting the government to seek initiates to attract more foreign investment. According to CBRE Group, Inc., U.S. businesses got a hold of 9 times more space in Dublin in 2011 than in 2007.

    During a recent roundtable meeting with noted U.S. investors at New York University, Bill Clinton said, “now is the time to invest in Ireland, where property is a steal and you’ve got the best educated workforce and everybody is all dressed up with no place to go.” Commercial rents in Dublin are now roughly 55 percent lower than when the market peaked in 2007. Labor productivity in Ireland rose 7.6% since 2008, the second biggest jump of the 27 countries that make up the European Union, according to a study by Constantin Gurdgiev, an adjunct lecturer in finance at Trinity College in Dublin.

    A year ago Google acquired the tallest office building in Dublin, and recently opened a retail store in that city. Facebook is looking to double the current size of it’s Dublin offices, and is considering leasing the former Bank of Ireland headquarters building. More than 350 people work at its Dublin office at present. LinkedIn Corp., has also leased Dublin office space in 2011, and increased the number of employees to about 175 from 30 since then, according to Barry O’Leary, the Chief Executive Officer of IDA, the government agency responsible for monitoring overseas investment. O’Leary goes on to say, “Ireland was the fifth most expensive location in the world for office accommodation in 2007, today it’s 45th.” U.S. tech companies have obviously picked up on this.