6 posts tagged “president”
I know the American Presidential election has eclipsed the danger of nuclear armed North Korea and North Korea’s clandestine nuclear aid to Syria and support for Iran; however the election of a new South Korean President should get some play in the Mainstream Media. Unfortunately I doubt that it will.
Why?
South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak is an outspoken Christian that attributes his election to Divine Providence. Oh my, this will mess with the Leftists in the American and Western Press.
JRH 2/11/08
Newt Gingrich writes about his decision not to run for President in his Winning the Future E-newsletter that is part of HumanEvents.com.
Before it became evident that Fred Thompson was going to throw his hat in the field of candidates, Newt was one of my top favorites. Newt and the Clinton family are not exactly friends. Newt was involved in slick Willie being the second President of the United States to be impeached from Office. The only thing that saved Clinton’s cajones was a Democratic majority in the Senate.
Then Newt became slimed in a scandal himself – one of the greatest Republicans next to Reagan became embroiled in an extra-marital affair. Unlike slick Willie, Newt resigned from the Speaker’s Office in the House while President Clinton received the aid of Democratic Party buddies in the Senate and actually finished his term unscathed. This occurred even though an American President out right knowingly lied to the American people – “I did not have sex that woman.” Either a blow job and ejaculation is not sex or Slick Willie lied.
I can hear the Democratic fringe now: “Bush lied people died.” If indeed Bush lied (I am not totally convinced), it was not knowingly. Bush’s decision about war was based on the same Intelligence reports that the Democrats of high levels read and endorsed the invasion of Iraq.
Here is the thing: Newt admitted his mistake and resigned from one of the most powerful Offices in America – Speaker of the House.
God knows how many people the adulterer sex offender sparkled up the pinnacle of his power. Yet the dirt has slipped of slick Willie like Teflon and his wife rather than divorce him intends to follow Slick’s tarnished but endeared Leftist legacy to the White House.
Newt would have made an excellent Conservative President however I do not think his integrity could withstand the dirty tricks that began to be hurled by a Clinton machine if nominated as expected by the Democratic Party.
Newt would be a good VP or Cabinet member in a Republican Administration; nonetheless let us read the specifics as to why Newt made the final decision not run in 2008.
Here is the scoop on Fred Thompson’s 24 years younger wife – Jeri (Kehn) Thompson according to Robert Novak:
JRH 8/7/07
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Fred Thompson's Wife
by Robert Novak
Posted: 08/02/2007
HumanEvents.com
Speaking at his $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser at the J.W. Marriott hotel in downtown Washington Monday night, Fred Thompson began by introducing "my campaign manager -- oh, I mean my wife." That little joke about Jeri Thompson reveals how the prospective Republican presidential candidate regards the attack on his intelligent, beautiful wife.
As the actor-lawyer-politician nears his long-awaited official announcement, Mrs. Thompson is slurred as a "trophy wife" 24 years younger than her husband -- privately by her husband's opponents for the Republican nomination and publicly by the news media. Even Thompson supporters grumble that Jeri, 40, is too alluring, should modify the way she dresses and even then should not practice her skills as a professional political operative on behalf of Fred, 64.
That Thompson made light of this at his fund-raiser reflects the cool reaction to crisis he has displayed as GOP counsel of the Watergate investigation, U.S. senator from Tennessee and many dramatic roles (most recently district attorney of Manhattan).That he is in a commanding position for the nomination may explain the extraordinary attention paid to his wife.
Murmuring about Jeri Thompson hit a peak of attention on Fox News Sunday July 22 when its round table engaged in whimsical contemplation of debate between spouses of Democratic presidential candidates. "Well, first," said Juan Williams of National Public Radio, "I think you should get Jeri Thompson in here, the trophy wife, right?" William Kristol of the Weekly Standard interjected: "That's unfair." Williams: "Unfair, unfair, I know, but -- ." Kristol: "It is unfair."
That ended the discussion. I asked Williams, a respected journalist, whether he had regrets about his "trophy wife" comment. He did not, but explained he got the idea from The New York Times of July 8 in a Style section report by Susan Saulny. "Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?" she asked. "Subsequent to that," Williams told me, "I heard the same thing in conversation with people in other campaigns -- about her being so young, so attractive and so powerful."
The archetypal "trophy wife" (a phrase coined by Fortune magazine 18 years ago) conjures up the image of a rich corporate executive who tires of and abandons the woman he married when they both were young and has grown old with, and turns to a young, chic new wife, usually seen as a home wrecker. Mrs. Thompson does not fit that mold. Thompson had been divorced for 17 years and was on friendly terms with his first wife when he married Jeri Kehn in 2002. They also have two small children -- not the trophy wife caricature either.
Nor does Mrs. Thompson's background fit the caricature. After working for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee, she became a big-time political media consultant in Washington. She has been intimately involved in the planning of her husband's campaign, including last week's staff shakeup. When Tom Collamore left as Thompson's campaign manager, he told CNN that he was "very respectful of the desire of Fred and Jeri to make some changes as they move to the next level." Those comments generated whispers in the political community that whoever ran this campaign would have to answer to the candidate's wife.
Actually, Collamore is a former bureaucrat and tobacco lobbyist with vastly less political experience than Mrs. Thompson. Not even Collamore's friends could conceive of him running a national political campaign. Indeed, Fred Thompson's close associates maintain there was no chance he would be a candidate for president were he not married to Jeri. He tells friends the reason he abandoned what seemed a promising campaign for the 1996 nomination was that he did not feel he could manage that endeavor as a single man.
The spectacle of Thompson's Republican adversaries demeaning his wife in conversations with newsmen suggests how seriously they regard his prospective candidacy. He starts his campaign in the top tier of candidates, and is already the candidate of the South and the favorite of social conservatives. His test is how he will do after Labor Day when his candidacy's phantom stage has been finished. Jeri Thompson will be at his side as an asset, not a liability.
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Mr. Novak is a syndicated columnist and editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report, a political newsletter he founded in 1967 with Rowland Evans. Click here to get a free subscription.
Copyright © 2007 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.
Could Vice President Cheney’s health be the Left Wing dream? There is speculation that Cheney might resign as Vice President. The resignation would not be because of Slanted Left hateraide rather it would be due to the heart condition that has plagued him ever since Cheney became Vice President.
Things change rapidly in the realm of politics, thus the speculation is possible; however Cheney has been touring the Middle East with a strong arm stop in Pakistan. This is not the picture of a person stepping down due to bad health.
If Cheney were to step down and President Bush selected Secretary of State Condi Rice to be Vice President for the remainder of this Administration’s term, it would have ramifications on Republican candidates running for the Presidential nomination. I do not know what the effect would be, however the effect would be subject to Rice’s Choices of a post Vice Presidency.
With Rudy Giuliani the current front runner in Republican polls, Conservatives are looking for a candidate that better matches their profile and is electable. Does Fred Thompson (former Senator and Law & Order actor) fit the profile?
The question now becomes: does Thompson want to give up “Law & Order” to run for President? For that matter does Thompson even wish to run for President? It might be Conservative flattery intended to buck up the current candidates.
Look at Fred Thompson’s credentials HERE.
Here is a look at the “whom” of the 2008 Presidential Race Courtesy of the NY Times. (Forgive me for utilizing the liberal rag as a source. J)
