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20
May
Some of you are graduating summa cum laude. Some of you are graduating magna cum laude. And some of you are graduating thank you laude.
(Source: inothernews)
17
May
Marco Rubio’s “culture of intimidation” is by far the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time.
16
May
President Obama at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday addressed the ‘democratic transition’ in Syria “without Assad.”
14
May
Frankly, had I been in the job at the time, I think my decisions would have been just as theirs were… send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having any intelligence in terms of what is actually going on on the ground, would have been very dangerous… It’s sort of a cartoonish impression of military capabilities and military forces.
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
13
May
U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron joint press conference, 5/13/13
“The whole thing defies logic and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly has a lot to do with political motivations. We’ve had folks who have challenged Hillary Clinton’s integrity, Susan Rice’s integrity, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering’s integrity. It’s a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks. they’ve used it for fundraising and frankly, you know, if anybody out there wants to actually focus on how we make sure something like this does not happen again? I am happy to get their advice and information and council.”
— President Obama
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
09
May
CIA agents broke the law during the Bush Administration. They perpetrated illegal and immoral acts. The U.S. is under treaty obligations to investigate and prosecute those acts, and while Obama seems willing to shirk those treaty obligations, those in the CIA who broke the law are understandably averse to the facts coming out. For all those reasons, it is wrong for Obama to give the CIA a say in what gets released. The American people deserve to know what really happened. If that doesn’t happen, Obama should suffer the blame and the tarnished legacy he’ll have earned.
03
May
The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in April and overall unemployment dropped to 7.5 percent. The private sector added 176,000 jobs while spending cuts caused the public sector to lose 11,000 jobs. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow notes that February’s record setting growth came after January’s tax hikes, but before the sequester which is now limiting growth due to congressional inaction.
Pictured: Private Sector Job Growth 2008-Present
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