An AP article reports that, “President Barack Obama on Friday spared from future development nearly 350,000 acres of land within the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles, a move that cheered environmentalists but sparked new criticism of Obama's willingness to use his executive authority.”
While the land dedication made the California trip an executive visit, paid for by taxpayer’s, another article by the AP’s Darlene Superville notes that, “Actress Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a reception and dinner benefiting the Democratic Party that marked the start of a three-day, California fundraising swing for Obama. He is scheduled to attend three other Democratic National Committee fundraisers in Los Angeles and San Francisco before returning to Washington on Saturday.
Tickets to the reception at Paltrow's home started at $1,000, while dinner tickets cost a minimum of $15,000.”
Therefore, by interrupting his fund-raising stops with a few minutes talk at a huge vacant lot, the incumbent stuck the public with the bill for his trip. And most likely, the costs of his whole entourage. Thus, it’s really no wonder why his approval percentage has dropped to under 40%.
At the same time, 10,000 pages of records made public Friday cover some of the darker days of the Clinton administration.
According to Fox News.com, “They touch on the Whitewater investigation, Bill and Hillary Clinton's land dealings in Arkansas; Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Lewinsky; the 1993 death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster; and the pardons Bill Clinton granted in his final hours as president.”
While many, especially Democrats, claim the paperwork is just a repeat of “old news,” they still serve as a reminder of both Clinton’s sordid history. And that ought to present a serious threat to Bill’s wife’s candidacy should she run again for the presidency in 2014. Because last time around, an unknown senator from Chicago showed up out of nowhere, and is still eating her lunch in the White House right now.
That’s it for today folks.
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