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Of President Obama’s U.S. diplomatic posts assignments so far have gone to political people. “Even assuming the GOP Senate won’t countenance confirming many more big-money bundlers in the next two years, Obama looks to have assembled the most political diplomatic corps since Ronald Reagan, whose grand total was 38 percent. Thirty percent of George W. Bush’s ambassadors were from outside the ranks of the foreign service, as were 28 percent of Bill Clinton’s, 31 percent for the elder George Bush and 27 percent for Jimmy Carter,” notes David Hawkings.
They tell us, at least, a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. Well clearly a black man’s life is not worth a ham sandwich when you put these stories together. And that is the frustration.
— Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, criticizing two grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo., The Hill reports.
83%
Of Americans now believe the climate is changing and 60% say the climate is changing due to man-made causes, a new Munich Re survey finds. The survey findings “indicate that national sentiment over whether or not climatic changes are occurring has finally reached a tipping point.”
It’s a horrible thing that he was killed, but he could have avoided that if he’d behaved like something other than a thug.
— Mike Huckabee, in an interview with Newsmax, on Michael Brown, the black teenager shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo.
Uh, I was fired.
— Joe Torre, quoted by the New York Times, after being praised by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) for his tenure as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.
The failures of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy are manifest. It’s almost as if the whole world is on fire right now.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), doing his best to tie Hillary Clinton to President Obama as he offered sharp criticism of the “Obama-Clinton” foreign policy, the New York Times reports.
