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The POTUS and other world leaders are moving toward the two-week U.N. conference starting Monday, in Paris. At a press conference “alongside French President Francois Hollande, Obama cast the climate summit as a global statement of solidarity.”

Viewing the details presented by foxnews.com, serves to indicate why many of the nation’s attending are so strongly focused on the global-warming issue. The president’s goal is to “direct $3 billion – including $500 million in the near-term – for the U.N. Green Climate Fund, which would help developing nations deal with climate change.”

However, those other nation’s objectives became somewhat clearer when, “Secretary of State John Kerry rattled European officials when he was quoted earlier this month in the Financial Times saying any agreement was “definitively not going to be a treaty.” 

French President Hollande bristled at the notion that a deal would not be legally binding and was quoted saying if that’s the case, “there won’t be an agreement.” Which illustrates clearly what the other attendees real goal is.

On another issue, according to theguardian.com/us, Reuters reports that: ”Donald Trump’s support among Republicans has dropped 12 points in less than a week, marking the presidential hopeful’s biggest decline since he started leading the field in July, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

“Trump is still in the lead, with 31% of people surveyed naming him as their preferred candidate in a rolling poll over five days that ended on 27 November. However, that number was down from a peak of 43% on 22 November.” 

The reason given  for the sharp drop in popularity is the comment made following the Paris attacks on 13 November in which 130 people died. He told an NBC News reporter that he would support a plan requiring all Muslims within the United States to be registered to a special database, which his critics likened to the mandatory registration of Jews in Nazi Germany. 

What’s most important here, is that while sounding somewhat sharper this time, he says similar things frequently. Therefore, the difference may be that with people now paying more attention to the presidential campaign in general, more of them will start actually listening to what he says more carefully.   

Reader, wardropper, presented an interesting comment regarding Trump’s capabilities, as follows: 

“Piffle.
My cat could show us how to escape the clutches of the self-serving PC political caste without losing its dignity.
We would lose a lot more than dignity if we let this fool anywhere near the White House.
Can you imagine him actually negotiating with other world leaders...?
"Mr. President, what makes you think your foreign policy will work where others have failed?"
"Because I say so."
Thanks, but no thanks.”

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

For many years now,  a major complaint about both Clinton’s, Bill and his wife, has been that neither has any real conviction or strongly held political belief. Instead, they try to ascertain their constituent’s preferences and adapt to whatever those may be. Because it’s power and money that’s important to them, not the issues.

While there have been many indications over time, illustrating their wavering positions and changes of mind, for the first time to this writer’s knowledge, a shift took place in the very same interview. 

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton admitted Tuesday that her recent use of the term "illegal immigrants" was "a poor choice of words," and pledged to stop using the word "illegal" when referring to immigrants. 

"That was a poor choice of words. As I've said throughout this campaign, the people at the heart of this issue are children, parents, families, DREAMers. They have names, and hopes and dreams that deserve to be respected," Clinton said during a Facebook Q&A with Noticias Telemundo, an NBC-affiliated Spanish-language network. 

In response to a question from immigration rights activist Jose Antonio Vargas on Facebook, Clinton added, "I've talked about undocumented immigrants hundreds of times and fought for years for comprehensive immigration reform." 

So, in the very same interview, Bill’s wife told  an audience what she thought they wanted to hear, and finding possible negative reaction, changed her position midstream. However, while that might be difficult for an amateur, for an experienced chameleon like Bill’s wife, changing position’s as natural as breathing.

Which brings up the continuing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

And finally, as far as the state of the nation currently goes, here’s a few indications of  where we stand.

Q: How can you tell it’s midnight at an American airport?

A: When you see the 8:00 PM flights taking off.

Q: What do Americans call electronic devices that go five years without need of repair?

A: Imports

Q: How can an American be certain that the car just purchased is actually new?

A: When it’s recalled by the factory. (That works for VW’s too.)

That's it for today folks.

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