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nObama’s Nixon Doctrine: Anointing Iran
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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 Capillaries tighten -   Team Hilly plans to raise at least $1 billion to help get her into the White House, so why is her team on a skimpy budget? Politico reports that staffers at her Brooklyn headquarters do not have phones, instead they are being asked by campaign manager Robby Mook to use voice-over Internet service. There are also no business cards, and “Mook has told everyone to stay with supporters while traveling, and avoid hotels when possible.”  -Fox News  
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 O’Malley shines in S.C. -   Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Gov.Lincoln Chaffee, D-R.I., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., fired up liberal activists this weekend at the South Carolina Democratic convention. Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, sent Mudcat Saunders, a favorite of southeastern Democrats to dish out some populist red meat. Clinton did not attend and instead sent former fundraiser Gov.Terry McAuliffe, D- Va., who tried to stay on the topic of his administration of neighboring Virginia, and a video that was marred by technical difficulties.  
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 DEMS HARDEN RESOLVE AGAINST nOBAMA TRADE DEAL  
President nObama is pushing for a big trade deal, but several Democrats are turning against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying, among other things, that the deal will do more harm to American workers, than good. Chris Stirewalt talks to Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who says he has seen the devastating effects of free trade in his district. WATCH HERE  
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 nOBAMA RIFFS ON BLACK ANGER   Byron York writes: “Depending on your perspective, President nObama's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night was either funny or filled with rage. Or perhaps it was funny about being filled with rage. Either way, there's no doubt that nObama, by incorporating comedian Keegan-Michael Key into his act, went public with the anger — specifically, the black anger — that has become part of the general conversation about nObama's time in office. Key and partner Jordan Peele do a Comedy Central routine in which Peele, playing nObama, delivers a calm, measured speech while Key, playing nObama's ‘anger translator,’ named Luther, acts out what nObama is really thinking, sputtering in rage against criticism and opposition that nObama believes is based in racism.”
          [The Hill: “nObama mocked critics of his recent unilateral moves, saying he maintains ‘something that rhymes with ‘bucket list’…‘Executive action on immigration? Bucket,’ nObama said to laughs, ‘New climate regulations? Bucket.’”]   -Fox News  
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 YES, EVEN THE TREFOILS  
Michigan Live: “Two sisters who were missing for nearly two weeks in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula survived on Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs. Lee Wright, 56, and Leslie Roy, 52, were weak but otherwise seemed to be in good condition when a state police helicopter rescued them Friday from a two-track road in northern Luce County, where their Ford Explorer became stuck in deep snow on April 11. The women stayed with the vehicle, which had died earlier this week. The out-of-state residents relied on eight boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs for food, as well as snow for water.”  
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 Key Expert in Supreme Court Lethal Injection Case  
(Annie Waldman) - Tomorrow, when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the highest-profile death penalty challenge in seven years, the justices will begin ruling on this question...Does Oklahoma’s use of the common surgical sedative midazolam fail to make prisoners unconscious during lethal injections, thus violating the Eighth Amendment’s protection against “cruel and unusual punishment”? For many court watchers, however, a subject of special scrutiny will be the credibility of Oklahoma’s key expert witness, Dr. Roswell Lee Evans, who has testified that inmates “would not sense the pain” of an execution after receiving a high dose of midazolam. The case, first brought by four condemned Oklahoma inmates, stems from the botched April 2014 execution of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett. Although Lockett received a substantial dose of midazolam intravenously, it failed to render him unconscious as he was administered the paralytic agent vecuronium bromide and the caustic heart-stopping drug potassium chloride. Witnesses reported that he moaned and writhed on the gurney for more than 40 minutes until his death.        http://www.propublica.org/article/key-expert-in-supreme-court-lethal-injection-case-did-research-drugs.com?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=&utm_name=
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US Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) (L), along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R), speaks at a news conference after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2015. The White House has said President Barack Obama would veto the Iran Nuclear Review Act, which was introduced by Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the panel, to require Obama to submit any final nuclear deal with Iran for Congress' approval. Reuters
 Congress’ Iran deal is a disaster  
(Marc A. Thiessen) - The Iran deal is a disaster. No, I’m not talking about the nuclear agreement President nObama is negotiating with Tehran (though that is a disaster, too), but rather the Iran deal that nObama cut with Congress...The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) negotiated with nObama comes up for a vote in the Senate this week. It is a terrible bill that virtually guarantees that Congress will give its de facto stamp of approval to any agreement nObama concludes with Iran. The reason is simple: Instead of requiring that Congress vote to affirmatively approve any nObama-Iran agreement before it can take effect, the Corker-Cardin bill allows the agreement to take effect unless it is disapproved by Congress. Big difference.       http://www.aei.org/publication/kill-corkers-disastrous-iran-bill/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=042815
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 UN plan to settle 1M refugees an invitation to terror, critics warn  
(Steven Edwards) - The humanitarian disaster unfolding on the Mediterranean is likely already providing a "shield" for Islamist terrorists to infiltrate waves of migrants attempting the perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe, terrorism experts and other strategic observers are warning...And they say a UN plan to resettle 1 million refugees in Western nations would turn the situation into a full-blown security crisis. The exodus now unfolding, as well as the UN call to take in refugees from war-torn Middle Eastern and African nations over the next five years, is providing a “shield for the passage of jihadists to Europe,” said one analyst. Once absorbed into the societies of Europe and other rich countries such as the United States, ISIS operatives would be set to eventually gain all the freedoms of other citizens of those countries – including the freedom to travel, often without having to go through the extra scrutiny involved in obtaining a passport visa.        http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/27/un-plan-to-settle-1m-refugees-invitation-to-terror-warn-critics/?intcmp=latestnews
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 Fewer Young Arabs Are Blaming Israel  
(Evelyn Gordon) - This year, defying a long tradition of blaming all the Arab world’s problems on Israel, only 23 percent of respondents cited the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the region’s main obstacle. . . . A comparison with previous surveys shows that this figure has been declining slowly but steadily for the past few years...The poll also highlights another encouraging fact: the issues young Arabs do see as their top concerns—Islamic State (IS), terrorism, and unemployment—are all issues on which cooperation with Israel could be beneficial, and in some cases, it’s already taking place. For instance, Israeli-Egyptian cooperation on counterterrorism is closer than it’s been in year—not only against Hamas, but also against Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the IS branch in Sinai. Israel and Jordan cooperate closely on counterterrorism as well, and it’s a safe bet that quiet cooperation is also occurring with certain other Arab states that officially have no relations with Israel.        http://evelyncgordon.com/young-arabs-agree-israel-isnt-arab-worlds-major-problem/
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 Turkey Betrays Russia By Building Military Alliance With Ukraine  
(Walid Shoebat) - We have maintained that Russia’s relationship with Turkey will eventually erode (Daniel 11:44) and this week the news received by Russia is that Turkey is already betraying her by going to bed with Ukraine... “Turkey and its littoral Black Sea neighbor, Ukraine, are striving to build a strategic industrial alliance that could include cooperation across a variety of military programs”says Defense News. Turkey’s betrayal of Russia includes an elaborate buildup of a military alliance with Ukraine. The Ukrainian delegation bringing together 130 companies visited Ankara earlier this month to discuss future cooperation where the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to pave the way for future joint projects to promote full cooperation.       http://shoebat.com/2015/04/27/turkey-betrays-russia-by-building-military-alliance-with-ukraine-prophecy-in-the-news/
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 Will nObama Pick Another Fight with Israel?  
(Steven J. Rosen) - The concessions that President nObama is making to Iran have alarmed not just the right in Israel but also the left, and forced pro-Israel Democrats to choose between loyalty to the President and steadfast support for the Jewish state...Even former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton has cautioned that "we need to all work together to return the special U.S.-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared concerns and interests." But the President apparently intends to go in another direction, to open a second conflict with Israel over its vital interests. According to Bloomberg News, "The administration has signaled that it might abandon the decades-long U.S. policy of protecting Israel at the UN and back a [French]Security Council resolution laying out terms for a two-state solution …Robert Malley, the Middle East director for President Barack nObama's National Security Council, told at least one European nation" that the Administration may support a resolution "defining the parameters for a Mideast peace agreement, according to a report on the conversation to superiors by a Washington-based European diplomat…viewed by Bloomberg News."        http://www.meforum.org/5206/obama-israel-round-two
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 Pushes Congress to #AdmitTheTruth About the Southern Border  
(admitthetruth.com) - Tell Congress to "stop the lies" and "#AdmitTheTruth" about the southern border. Let's make sure this video about the truth on the southern border goes viral! Source: American Action News...  http://admitthetruth.com/
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 Bill to Register All Calif. Drivers to Vote Advances  
(Jon Fleischman) - Last month, Oregon Governor Kate Brown received considerable media attention when she put her signature on a new law that automatically registers every licensed driver in the Beaver State to vote...Here in California, newly-minted Secretary of State Alex Padilla is pushing for the state legislature to follow Oregon’s lead. Padilla is supporting a bill, AB 1461, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), that would, as in Oregon, require that every person with a driver’s license in California be automatically registered to vote. AB 1461 says that a licensed driver would have to affirmatively opt out of being registered in order not to be enrolled automatically. The bill passed its first legislative hurdle yesterday when Assembly Transportation Committee Democrats, on a party-line vote, approved the bill. What a big mistake that is. This bill is for immigrates, not for voting registration but to enroll them.      http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/04/28/bill-to-register-all-california-drivers-to-vote-advances/
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Independent Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders speaks during a news conference April 28, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
 A Socialist Is Challenging Hilly  
(Scott Greer) - Hilly Clinton is getting a Democrat challenger — and he’s coming at her from the far left...Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed social democrat, is set to announce his candidacy for the White House on Thursday,The Huffington Post reports. Sanders, while not a declared Democrat, caucuses with the party in the Senate and is planning to make his run in its presidential primary. The Vermont senator has strongly criticized Clinton for having a “soft” attitude towards Wall Street and being insufficiently concerned with the economic issues dear to the liberal base.       http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/28/a-socialist-is-challenging-hillary/
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 DHS Secretary Johnson – But Lawbreaking Isn’t A Crime  
(rickwells.us) - Circular responses are a Jeh Johnson staple; being apparently incapable of taking the risk associated with either a direct or truthful response. He invariably throws enough word clutter into his sentences so as to allow him a future misinterpretation defense or to mislead the questioner in real time...Senator Grassley (R-IA) is too smart for the Johnson misdirect, but he lets him to tap dance around until the music stops and then asks him to go ahead and complete the response. The downside is that the Senator used up most of his questioning time being the recipient of heaping helpings of drivel. They address the illegal alien multiple murderer, Rangel-Hernandez, in whose case the refusal of nObama and Johnson to enforce immigration law resulted in the murders of four people. It’s not a problem, though, Johnson has retrained everybody in DHS so they know which criminals are really criminals and which ones are only make believe criminals, guilty only of violating the phony pretend laws that nObama and Johnson don’t approve of.        http://www.rickwells.us/dhs-secretary-johnson-im-interested-in-deporting-criminals-but-lawbreaking-isnt-a-crime/

 
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nObama’s Nixon Doctrine: Anointing Iran
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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    (freedomsback.com) - In December, President nObama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a “very successful regional power.” His wish — a nightmare for the Western-oriented Arab states — is becoming a reality. Consider:      

     Gulf of Aden: Iran sends a flotilla of warships and weapons-carrying freighters to reinforce the rebels in Yemen — a noncontiguous, non-Persian, nonthreatening (to Iran) Arabian state — asserting its new status as regional bully and arbiter. The nObama administration sends an aircraft carrier group, apparently to prevent this gross breach of the U.N. weapons embargo on Yemen. Instead, the administration announces that it has no intention of doing anything. Meanwhile, it exerts pressure on Saudi Arabia to halt its air war over Yemen and agree to negotiate a political settlement involving Iran.       

     Russia: After a five-year suspension, Russia announces the sale of advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, which will render its nuclear facilities nearly invulnerable to attack. nObama’s reaction? Criticism, threats, sanctions? No. A pat on the back for Vladimir Putin: “I’m, frankly, surprised that the embargo held this long.”


     Iran: Last week, nObama pre-emptively caved on the long-standing U.S. condition that there be no immediate sanctions relief in any Iranian nuclear deal. He casually dismissed this red line, declaring that what is really important is whether sanctions can be reimposed if Iran cheats. And it doesn’t stop there. The Wall Street Journal reports that nObama is offering Tehran a $30 billion to $50 billion signing bonus (drawn from frozen Iranian assets) — around 10 percent of Iranian GDP.

      Syria: After insisting for years that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria “step aside,” the U.S. has adopted a hands-off policy toward a regime described by our own secretary of state as an Iranian puppet. .      Iraq: Iran’s Quds Force Commander Qassem Suleimani, director of Shiite militias that killed hundreds of Americans during the Iraq War and were ultimately defeated by the 2007-08 U.S. surge, operates freely throughout Iraq flaunting his country’s dominance. In March, he was directing the same Iraqi militias, this time against the Islamic State — with the help of U.S. air cover.       

     This is the new Middle East. Its strategic reality is clear to everyone: Iran rising, assisted, astonishingly, by the United States.      

     nObama’s initial Middle East strategy was simply withdrawal. He would enter history as the ultimate peace president, ushering in a new era in which “the tide of war is receding.” The subsequent vacuum having been filled, unfortunately and predictably, by various enemies, adversaries and irredeemables, nObama lighted upon a new idea: We don’t just withdraw, we hand the baton. To Iran.      

     nObama may not even be aware that he is recapitulating the Nixon doctrine, but with a fatal twist. Nixon’s main focus was to get the Vietnamese to take over that war from us. But the doctrine evolved and was generalized to deputize various smaller powers to police their regions on our behalf. In the Persian Gulf, our principal proxy was Iran.      

     The only problem with nObama’s version of the Nixon doctrine is that Iran today is not the Westernized, secular, pro-American regional power it was under the shah. It is radical, clerical, rabidly anti-imperialist, deeply anti-Western. The regime’s ultimate — and openly declared — strategic purpose is to drive the American infidel from the region and either subordinate or annihilate America’s Middle Eastern allies.      

     Which has those allies in an understandable panic. Can an American president really believe that appeasing Iran — territorially, economically, militarily and by conferring nuclear legitimacy — will moderate its behavior and ideology, adherence to which despite all odds is now yielding undreamed of success?       

     Iran went into the nuclear negotiations heavily sanctioned, isolated internationally, hemorrhaging financially — and this was even before the collapse of oil prices. After 17 months of serial American concessions, the Iranian economy is growing again, its forces and proxies are on the march through the Arab Middle East and it is on the verge of having its nuclear defiance rewarded and legitimized.      

     The Saudis are resisting being broken to Iranian dominance. They have resumed their war in Yemen. They are resisting being forced into Yemen negotiations with Iran, a country that is, in the words of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., “part of the problem, not part of the solution.” .      nObama appears undeterred. He’s determined to make his Iran-first inverted Nixon Doctrine a reality. Our friends in the region, who for decades have relied on us to protect them from Iran, look on astonished.

http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/obamas-nixon-doctrine-anointing-iran/

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