The Big 'Dog' and Hillary!

Celebrity endorsements matter to low-info voters! How many Republicans on Fox forecast a Democrat will keep us safe?

The Dynamic Duo!

Hillary knows the enemy!

Why so many women are raising money for Hillary Clinton

WaPo, by Matea Gold

LOS ANGELES — Fran Seegull, the chief investment officer of a nonprofit investment firm, has worked in the elite fields of philanthropy and venture capital. But the Santa Monica resident had never dipped her toe into the world of political fundraising.

That changed when she saw Hillary Rodham Clinton gearing up for another presidential run. Seegull donated to her 2008 campaign, but this time she wanted to do more. That meant raising campaign cash, she realized.

“I don’t think women have had as significant a seat at the table as they could and should,” Seegull said.

Energized by the prospect of helping the former secretary of state make history, many women are activating their personal networks for the first time to pool contributions for her campaign, helping Clinton tap into new sources of cash as she assembles what is expected to be a more-than-$1­ billion operation.

Already, more than 60 percent of Clinton’s donors are women, according to a campaign official. That puts her on track to outstrip the presidential high-water mark set by President Obama in 2012, when 47 percent of donors who gave him more than $200 were women, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The surge of female-driven contributions for Clinton could fuel a partisan divide when it comes to gender and political money. In 2012, women gave 52 percent of their federal donations to Democratic candidates, a slight edge the party has held since 1998, according to the center.

"What the bleep do we know!?"

Tying it all together with a nice bow!

See how easy it is to stack BS into a giant heaping pile of excrement?

Don't we know it!

Obama's American Pharoah Triple Crown conspiracy: How president will trick his way to third term
by JD Crowe, statewide cartoonist for the Alabama Media Group.

Eminem ASL Version

Featured at HuffPo today:

Obama pursues Democrats on trade in test of his clout on Capitol Hill

Tribune Washington Bureau, Michael A. Memoli and Christi Parsons

WASHINGTON — As a proposal concerning a major trade deal reached a critical point in the Senate last week, lawmakers reported a rare occurrence: last-minute calls from President Barack Obama that ultimately helped ensure that the pact, a key agenda item of his, remained on track.

The landmark trade deal among 12 Pacific Rim nations presents Obama with the most significant test of his clout on Capitol Hill since his push half a decade ago for what would become known as Obamacare. Standing in his way are not Republicans, who have an unusual partnership with Obama on trade, but the president's fellow Democrats, who are concerned that the proposed pact would hurt the U.S. middle class.

The Republican-led Senate ultimately approved the measure granting Obama authority to negotiate the deal, but a fiercer battle awaits him in the House, where Republicans will also need the votes of at least some of the minority-party Democrats to pass the bill.

The president's attempt to get Democrats to back the trade deal has required a reboot of their relationship, which Democrats have complained ranges from strained to nonexistent. The White House says the president and other top members of the administration are trying to persuade Democrats to come around.

Obama and key officials have focused on two key blocs of potential support — the moderate New Democrat Coalition and the Congressional Black Caucus — in an extended courtship that's included rare White House invitations and promises to help them respond to any political fallout in their re-election campaigns next year.

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I was scanning through foreign language channels on my cable menu. I really like Bollywood productions and Chinese opera, so I was seeing what is popular in my neck of the woods. Most channels were not included in my package, but this one popped up!

El Rey Network! "Miami Vice" "X Files" (I caught the end of an episode I never saw! As soon as I finish my "Xena Warrior Princess" DVDs, might have to watch X Files again).

"Lucha Underground!" Original programming!

And an amazing catalog of movies! Italian horror, old spaghetti westerns, and classic kung fu, including "Flying Five Finger One Armed Eight Pole Shaolin Exploding Death Touch Thursdays!"

Anybody know what else I might be missing?

http://www.elreynetwork.com/

Why Young People Don’t Want to Run For Office

by Katy Steinmetz, Time Article

TIME speaks with Jennifer Lawless, whose research on young Americans' political ambition is revealed in a new book.

Will American politics face a brain drain? If current trends continue, it could soon.

Political science professors Jennifer Lawless and Richard Fox asked more than 4,000 high school and college students if they would be interested in running for political office in America someday: 89% of them said “no.”

That finding is the crux of a new book based on their original research, Running From Office. In it, the authors argue that the dysfunction of Washington has turned the next generation off politics in historic fashion. Unless behaviors change, American University’s Lawless says, the country’s brightest stars are going to pursue just about anything but one of the 500,000 elected offices America needs filled each year.

Did President Obama Just Have a Very Good Week?

From Gallup: