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The Hillary Press Conference that launched a thousand dumpster fire gifs.

This was the second most enjoyable press conference I’ve ever watched*: half of my timeline was howling and looking for burning tire pictures by the end of it.

If you have the twenty minutes or so to spare, indulge yourself.  Especially the abrupt ending – she abruptly ran like blazes when somebody brought up fired-for-using-private-email** Ambassador Scott Gration.  Remember: this is the Last, Great Hope of the Democratic party, and they’re doing shots of Maalox now because of it. Continue reading The Hillary Press Conference that launched a thousand dumpster fire gifs.

Sorry: I’m being distracted by this trainwreck of a press conference.

Barack Obama needs somebody who can take him aside after this and tell him, point blank, You screwed that up.  You had New York Times reporters – NEW YORK TIMES REPORTERS – tweeting that you were saying things on Obamacare that just weren’t so.  You need to learn to talk less, listen more, and take this seriously.

Barack Obama does not have that person available to him.

No, the Milwaukee DA press conference has nothing to do with Prosser.

This is a preemptive post: the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board and the DA’s office for Milwaukee County is will be having a joint press conference Monday afternoon at 2 PM local time about a “significant investigation.” Given that the DA for Milwaukee County is a Democrat – and given that the election results for Milwaukee County have not yet been certified – there has already been some speculation that this investigation is related to last week’s re-election of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. However, at least one local news reporter has already confirmed with the Wisconsin GAB that the announcement is not related to last week’s race.

I mention all of this primarily because this story otherwise looks like precisely the sort of vague, information-free bare-bones notification of an event that the Internet can force-bloom into a beautiful Orchid of Hysteria; and it’d be nice if more of those got nipped in the bud…

Moe Lane (crosspost) Continue reading No, the Milwaukee DA press conference has nothing to do with Prosser.

#rsrh QotD, Hot Air edition.

Allahpundit, on the, ah, surprising press conference today – and how it was a bit of a surprise to the White House staff, too:

Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president has to skip out after a minute or two to go eat gingerbread cookies.

I should also like to note for the record that while it is certainly possible that Obama is playing 13th-dimensional chess here, it is also certainly possible that he’s merely flailing about both ineffectually, and amusingly.  Given that I’ve never been particularly impressed with the President’s ability to lead people who weren’t inclined to follow him blindly, you can guess which possibility I’m going with.

‘You’re certainly free to ask them, Chip.’

We’ll skip the President’s prepared remarks: as Jennifer Rubin more or less noted, the semantic content was low, and what there was of it is contradicted by this administration’s past, present, and expected actions. So let’s just skip ahead to the end (via Andrew Malcolm):

Continue reading ‘You’re certainly free to ask them, Chip.’

Hot dogs in public, credit-taking in private: the White House’s search for an Iranian domestic strategy.

Gird your loins.

Question: What do these two stories have in common?

Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. on Its Role Abroad

[snip]

Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.

[Via The Campaign Spot]


US says hot dog diplomacy still on with Iran

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.

President Barack Obama’s administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

[Via Weasel Zippers, via Hot Air]

Answer: Both demonstrate that the administration’s only real focus on any issue is its effect on domestic policy. Continue reading Hot dogs in public, credit-taking in private: the White House’s search for an Iranian domestic strategy.