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A news items today, suggests that the POTUS is continuing his campaign for dissension posed in Saul Alinsky’s, Rules for Radicals. Or perhaps, is simply proving once more that his lack of leadership experience has lead to an extremely poor managerial decision 

 

Greg Jaffe @washingtonpost.com, writes that: “President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.

 

“Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon’s biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs. Now he will oversee an Army that has been battered by the longest stretch of continuous combat in U.S. history and is facing potentially severe budget cuts. It’s also an Army that after a long stretch of patrolling Iraqi and Afghan villages is searching for its postwar role in protecting the nation.”

 

Whatever the POTUS’s motives may be notwithstanding, the nomination itself is inherently wrong. But not for what might appear to be an obvious reason; the nominees gayness. However, that’s not the flaw at all.

 

Regarding sexuality, Phil Carter, a veteran of the war in Iraq and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security put it this way: “My sense is that the Army is over this and has been over it for some time. The Army cares whether you can shoot straight, not whether you are straight.”

 

And that’s the real problem with the nomination. Because the army is all about soldiering, fighting in trenches and winning military battles on the ground, which takes hands-on experience to truly understand at all. And, unfortunately, the nominee selected is a desk-jockey whose true expertise is pushing paper, not anti-tank guns in the desert. It’s also a very safe bet that those now in uniform would rather be lead by one who headed successful invasions, than someone adept at using a stapler. 

 

The next item concerns the upcoming Papal visit and the Pope's stated concerns regarding global warming.

 

Joe Bastardi spent a 32-year career at Accuweather.com, and is now chief forecaster at WeatherBELL Analytics, a meteorological consulting firm. Today, @patriotpost.us, he writes about, “Just two charts I would ask the pope to look at.”

 

“1.) Human progress: The amount of people, life expectancy and global personal GDP. These “hockey sticks” show that, since the advent of fossil fuels, the human condition has improved immensely.

 

 

“2.) The factual record of CO₂ and temperature in the geological history of the earth.

 

 

“There is no apparent linkage, so why is CO₂ suddenly the climate control knob when there were years with higher CO₂ and lower temperatures?”

 

Mr. Bastardi concludes by writing: “I won’t go any further except to say I can’t believe his excellency, if exposed to this, would not at the very least question the positions he has adopted. It is my hope while he is here that he at least glances at other information such as this.”

 

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

 

David Mastio, headed his column @usatoday.com: “Amid controversy, slipping polls, the non-profit arm of the Clinton dynasty is no longer a safe bet.”

 

The text notes: “More bad news for the Clintons. With Hillary's presidential campaign slipping in the polls against Sen. Bernie Sanders and facing a potential fresh challenge from Vice President Joe Biden, six giants of the corporate world are bailing out on the Clinton Global Initiative.

 

“USA TODAY has confirmed that sponsors from 2014 that have backed out for this year include electronics company Samsung, oil giant ExxonMobil, global financial firms Deutsche Bank and HSBC, and accounting firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). Hewlett-Packard, which just announced major layoffs, will be an in-kind donor instead of a cash contributor, and the agri-chem firm Monsanto has cut back its donation. Dow's name is missing from the donor list as well, but the chemical company's exit is not confirmed.”

 

As a side-note, and perhaps the most critical indicator of Bill’s wife’s expected future: “The Obama administration is backing away as well. In 2014, the cabinet officials heading the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Commerce, as well as key White House adviser Valerie Jarrett spoke at the conference. This year no Obama administration appointees as prominent are on the program.”

 

At the same time, according to reuters.com: “A group of prominent Democratic Party fundraisers on Friday began circulating a letter to encourage a hesitant Vice President Joe Biden to enter the 2016 race for U.S. president.

 

The letter, signed by nearly 50 people, calls the Obama-Biden administration a "spectacular success." 

 

"To finish the job, America needs a leader who is respected both home and abroad, and who understands the real challenges facing American families. In our opinion, the next president must be Joe Biden. If he announces he’s running, we’re all in. It’s a campaign we know he will win," the letter says. 

 

The letter makes no mention of Clinton, and leads to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this?  

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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