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Scott Walker continues gaining coverage in the national media, although those paying attention have been well aware of his successes in Wisconsin for quite some time now. And, sooner or later, media types as well as his competitors for the presidency, will have to come to grips with the fact that he’s one of a very few that have valid credentials for handling the job.

 

What’s critical for the nation at present, and should be at all times, is that the presidency isn’t a job for a politician, regardless of glibness, it’s a managerial post that takes outstanding, task-oriented, goal-fulfillment by a practitioner knowing precisely what he or she is doing administratively.  

 

Which is why, after all the talk, all the speeches, all the rally’s, and all the promises, spewers of endless rhetoric can't come close to someone who’s gone out and actually done a comparative job successfully.

 

In Governor Walker’s case, for one thing, he cut unemployment while creating a budget surplus, enabling him to cut taxes in a blue state. While, except for other governors such as, Perry, Bush, Christie, Jindal, Gilmore, Ehrlich, Huckabee and Kasich, most other potential candidates have absolutely no equivalent experience whatsoever. And for those who do, few have similarly outstanding records. Which means that the choice for voters in 2016 will likely be deciding if they prefer proven accomplishment or another four to eight years of hot air in the White House.

 

As far as the White House is concerned, Adam Kredo writes in an article published in Persian and independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon, that, “Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Basij, a paramilitary group operating under the wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), recently claimed that the “Americans are begging us for a deal on the negotiation table.

 

“Naghdi added that American officials routinely “plea” with Iran in talks and that the United States is negotiating from a position of weakness, according to his comments, which follow earlier reports claiming that Iran’s leading negotiator “frequently shouts” at U.S. officials.

 

“Iran feels the administration needs the deal, and this belief is supported by the way the administration is acting,” said Saeed Ghasseminejad, an Iranian dissident and associate fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

 

America’s “hostility toward its traditional allies in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, is at its historical peak and the Obama administration either supports Iran to expand its influence in the region or at least does not oppose it at all,” Ghasseminejad explained. “Iran feels as long as the negotiation is going on, it has a green light to do whatever it wants in the region, so why should they bother to sign a deal?”

 

While the situation involving Iran continues to fester, garnering significant current press, the historical steps that led to where things stand now have been meticulously explained and detailed in a comprehensive article at mosaicmagazine.com. It’s well-worth  reading, so here’s a link: Obama's secret strategy

 

And finally for today, Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of its 2014  Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges.

 

One question they were asked was: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?

 

A link to the story tells it all: Scholars rank John Kerry dead last

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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