By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--June 6, 2014
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“Illinois has a Republican senator, Mark Kirk, and he is up for reelection in 2016. He’ll be formidable, particularly given his brave recovery from a stroke. But Illinois is a heavily Democratic state, and the race could be close.”Reuters knows full well that for the Democrats, electioneering is a well-perfected game called The Survival of the Fittest. With divorce papers magically disclosed when Barack Obama contested a senate seat against Jack Ryan in 2004, and with media smears that stick for a lifetime, gazelles in the herd are picked off, one at a time, by marauding lions, Kirk, a war vet, who suffered a stroke in January of 2012, was hospitalized and returned to work one year later, is the latest Democrat targeted gazelle.
“No Illinois Democratic candidate would bring the star power and nationwide fundraising capacity that Obama would,” Reuters trumpets. “She has proven herself a superb speaker on behalf of her pet projects and is now a veteran campaigner for her husband. She’s also remained highly popular — even as the president’s ratings have plummeted.
“When she was asked in 2012 whether she would run for president, she replied, “Absolutely not!” “But then she added: “One of the things you learn about yourself as you get older are what are your strengths and what are your interests. And for me, it’s the other stuff that is not being president. So I probably won’t run. “Probably?”Is Michelle Obama’s political trajectory one that aims to get her in the White House as president via Hillary Clinton? Will the 2016 election be one with a Hillary Clinton-Michelle Obama ticket? Shudder time! For those comforting themselves with the thought that senatorship is too far back in the power line for overbearing Michelle, getting elected as New York Junior Senator was the trajectory of how Hillary could make a run for U.S. president. Nothing but death and taxes are guaranteed in life on earth. But with Hillary and Michelle as president and vice president, it is guaranteed that Barack Hussein Obama will remain in the White House beyond 2016 for the ongoing Fundamental Transformation of America.
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