TRUMP'S FREE TRADE SPEECH REMINDS VOTERS ITS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY (STUPID)

TRUMP'S FREE TRADE SPEECH REMINDS USA ITS ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY 

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID.

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2016 Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump's FREE TRADE SPEECH delivered 6-30-2016 in New Hampshire was very encouraging and really made Trump appear as an Intelligent leader.

His speech was strongly focused on renegotiating current Free Trade agreements and bringing American jobs back from overseas.

Without more jobs there will be no MIDDLE CLASS within the American workforce.

**** Trump vows to reopen, or toss, NAFTA pact with Canada and Mexico

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with the United States if elected, as part of an effort to protect and restore American jobs.

Trump criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement as a U.S. job killer, saying he would be willing to scrap the pact if Canada and Mexico were unwilling to budge. He also tried to link Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to the deal on the eve of a meeting in Ottawa of the "three amigos," the leaders of the three NAFTA signatories: the United States, Mexico and Canada. 

In his most detailed speech on trade, the presumptive Republican nominee said he would pull the United States out of negotiations for a deal among 12 Pacific Rim nations and promised to use executive power to resolve trade disputes with China.

Trump also pledged to revive the U.S. steel and aluminum industry, speaking at an aluminum scrap company in Monessen, Pennsylvania, nearly 30 miles (50 km) south of Pittsburgh, the one-time American steelmaking capital.

Trump has identified Pennsylvania as a state he believes he can wrest from the Democrats in the Nov. 8 election. He also campaigned on Tuesday in Ohio, which like Pennsylvania is a Rust Belt state. 

Democratic President Barack Obama won both states in 2008 and 2012, but manufacturing job losses have led to voter anxiety in the region.

"I'm going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers. And I don't mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better," Trump said in Pennsylvania.

If Canada and Mexico do not agree to renegotiate the pact, Trump said he would notify them under the agreement's terms "that America intends to withdraw from the deal."

He tried to tie his Democratic rival to the pact, approved in 1993 during the administration of her husband, President Bill Clinton, as he called NAFTA one of the "worst legacies" of the Clinton years.

On MSNBC after Trump's speech, Clinton spokeswoman Kristina Schake called the wealthy New York businessman the "king of outsourcing," in an apparent reference to Trump-branded products such as suits and ties made overseas. 

"It was full of hypocrisy and misstatements and outright lies," Schake said.

Trade has been a vulnerability for Clinton, who struggled for white, blue-collar votes in her Democratic primary race against U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who criticized her for supporting trade deals and said she was too close to Wall Street. 

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

Trump echoed Sanders' criticism on Tuesday, saying Clinton supported the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, while she was secretary of state and only opposed it once she was running for president. Clinton's campaign said she opposed the agreement because it was not strong enough on currency manipulation and other areas. 

Clinton has said she will evaluate each trade deal on its merits but does not believe the TPP is good for U.S. workers. Sanders now says he will vote for Clinton in November, although he has not formally withdrawn from the race.

Trump said he saw no way to fix the TPP, calling it a "death blow" for American manufacturing. Although China is not part of the agreement, Trump said Beijing might try to enter it "through the back door" later on.

Later, during a rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Trump said the deal was "just a continuing rape of our country."

Just hours before Trump spoke, Clinton allies sought to pre-empt the planned trade speech by saying Trump's policies amounted to empty promises.

Earlier, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told a trade conference in Washington that "Trump embodies everything that is wrong with our current trade policy. He has consistently sent American jobs overseas to line his own pockets."

The AFL-CIO, which collectively represents more than 12 million workers, making it the largest U.S. labor federation, endorsed Clinton this month.

POPULIST ANGER

Both Clinton and Trump have acknowledged that Britain's vote to leave the European Union signaled a global economic frustration among working-class voters that could reverberate in the U.S. election.

"There is a lot of legitimate anxiety, fear and even anger in many parts of our country because people feel like the economy has failed them," Clinton said in Denver on Tuesday. "I think this is going to be one of the defining issues in this election."

Trump has seized on the historic Brexit vote to bolster his argument that voters are rising up against establishment leaders, saying Americans would reject the "global elite" and support his presidential candidacy.

But Trump has broken with Republican Party orthodoxy in criticizing trade deals, and has threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican and Chinese imports. His rhetoric has drawn criticism from many economists, who say such practices could spark trade wars.

As Trump spoke, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is usually in sync with prominent Republicans on trade policy, said on Twitter: "Under Trump's trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy."

DONALD TRUMP & BERNIE SANDERS TAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES

DONALD TRUMP & BERNIE SANDERS TAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES:

TRUMP WILL BE THE 2016 GOP NOMINEE.

HILLARY WILL STILL BE DEMOCRAT'S NOMINEE.

**** New Hampshire Primary: Donald Trump Wins on G.O.P. Side; Bernie Sanders Tops Hillary Clinton

Donald J. Trump claimed victory in New Hampshire’s Republican primary on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, while Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic contest in a state where he has long held an advantage.

Mr. Trump, a billionaire businessman whose outsize presence has upended the Republican race, recovered from a humbling second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses to take a state where he led in the polls for months. He won despite largely shunning the kind of retail campaigning that is commonplace among presidential candidates trying to win over New Hampshire voters.

The victory by Mr. Trump suggests for the first time that his unconventional and divisive campaign, powered in large measure by celebrity and showmanship, is capable of delivering votes. And it puts him in strong position as the race heads to South Carolina, where Mr. Trump holds a double-digit polling lead over his two closest rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

Mr. Sanders’s victory is the second disappointing result in as many weeks for Mrs. Clinton, who barely eked out a win in the Iowa caucuses against Mr. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist whose candidacy has proved surprisingly formidable.

Mr. Sanders has represented the neighboring state of Vermont for more than two decades, giving him at least some degree of home-field advantage in New Hampshire.

Sources: ABC News, CNN, NY Times, YouTube

BERNIE SANDERS TEAMS UP WITH HILLARY CLINTON TO DEFEAT TRUMP IN 2016

BERNIE SANDERS TEAMS UP WITH HILLARY CLINTON TO DEFEAT TRUMP IN 2016:

SANDERS IS SHIFTING FROM OPPONENT TO HILLARY'S MENTOR.

WAS THERE A 2016 DEAL MADE BETWEEN HILLARY & SANDERS?

Two weeks ago 2016 Presidential Candidate and Socialist U.S. Senator BERNIE SANDERS issued an public apology on air to his Opponent HILLARY CLINTON for a Voter Data Breach during a DEMOCRAT party debate in New Hampshire.

This past weekend BERNIE SANDERS joined Key DEMOCRAT leaders in attacking Jewish Billionaire and GOP Donor SHELDON ADELSON.

For several months SANDERS has attacked HILLARY over her close ties with Wall Street and Elite BILLIONAIRES.

Now it appears as if SANDERS is Collaborating with HILLARY'S campaign to defeat the presumptive 2016 GOP nominee DONALD J TRUMP.

Was there a 2016 Deal made between HILLARY and SANDERS?

~ In Nevada, Sanders mocks Republicans for running to casino mogul for a financial lift

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, starting a two-day swing through Nevada, took aim Sunday at members of the Republican field for seeking the blessing of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

At a rally in Reno that drew more than 2,000 people, Sanders spoke facetiously of an “Adelson caucus,” a reference to Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and other Republicans who have met with the mega-donor in the hopes of securing a financial boost ahead of the first nominating contests.

“Sheldon Adelson has not invited me to speak with him,” said Sanders, who routinely decries the political influence of the “billionaire class.” During the rally, which was live-streamed on Periscope, Sanders said that the average contribution to his campaign has been less than $30.

Sanders's two-day swing through Nevada comes ahead of a month in which he plans to hunker down in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states with the first nominating contests. 

Many analysts say that the senator from Vermont would probably need to win both to become a real threat to Hillary Clinton in the contest for the Democratic nomination.

Nevada holds its Democratic caucuses on Feb. 20, following the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1 and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9.

“We think we have a shot here,” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said of Nevada. “Obviously, we’re working hard in Iowa and New Hampshire, but Bernie is running a national campaign.”

Sanders, who is scheduled to return to Iowa on Tuesday and New Hampshire this weekend, also sparred over social media on Sunday with the Republican front-runner, Donald Trump.

During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sanders argued that he would better represent the economic interests of Trump’s working-class supporters, citing prior statements by Trump that wages in America are “too high.”

“Lie!” Trump said on Twitter after the broadcast, denying that he had said wages are too high.

Sanders responded with a tweet saying that Trump is “getting nervous that working families are catching on to whose interests he truly represents.” In an accompanying news release, Sanders pointed to multiple instances in which Trump said wages were too high.

Trump is among the Republican hopefuls who has met with Adelson, whom Forbes magazine estimates is worth $23.7 billion and who provided a financial boost during the 2012 presidential race to super PACs supporting GOP aspirants Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

Prior to his meeting with Adelson, Trump described it as a courtesy call rather than a solicitation for campaign donations. The two reportedly got together at the Venetian, a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip that is owned Adelson and was the site of a CNN-sponsored Republican debate this month.

Sanders plans to campaign Monday in the Las Vegas area, including at an evening rally planned in North Las Vegas.

 Sources:  ABC News, Washington Post, NBC News, YouTube

BERNIE SANDERS WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE DEBATE: (SORRY HILLARY)

BERNIE SANDERS WINS NEW HAMPSHIRE DEBATE: (SORRY HILLARY)

HILLARY WENT AFTER DONALD TRUMP.

MARTIN O'MALLEY DID MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.

~ The Best Lines From the Democratic Debate

There may only have been three candidates, but there was no shortage of unforgettable exchanges in Saturday night's debate. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley took to the stage in the Democratic debate tonight, hosted by ABC News.

These are some of the most memorable moments from the showdown in New Hampshire:

*** "Yes, I apologize."

In response to his campaign's breach of Clinton's voter data, Sanders apologized to Clinton. "Not only do I apologize to Secretary Clinton, and I hope we can work together on an independent investigation from day one, I want to apologize to my supporters. This is not the type of campaign that we run."

"That is an egregious act," he added. "We should move on because I don't think the American people are all that interested in this."

*** "I think they're more interested in what we have to say about all the big issues facing us."

Just as Sanders believed people were "sick and tired" of hearing about Clinton's emails, Clinton herself called for an end to discussing the Sanders data breach.

*** "Guns in and of themselves in my opinion will not make Americans safer. We lose 33,000 people a year already to gun violence. Arming more people to do what I think is not the appropriate response to terrorism."

Clinton voiced her opposition to calls for broader gun rights in the wake of recent attacks, instead calling for greater coalition building.

*** “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's calm down a little bit, Martin."

Sanders said that in response to O'Malley, who called out his two opponents on their gun control records. His comments were met by incredulous reactions from both Clinton and Sanders.

“Senator Sanders voted against the Brady bill. Senator Sanders voted to give immunity to gun dealers," O'Malley said.

"And Senator Sanders voted against even research dollars to look into this public health issue," he said.

"Secretary Clinton changes her position on this every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards.

Clinton responded by saying, “Let's tell the truth, Martin.”

*** “He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter.”

Clinton condemned Donald Trump’s inflammatory statements and policy proposals on Muslims. “They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists,” she said.

*** "I know Secretary Clinton was gleeful when Gaddafi was torn apart."

O'Malley criticized Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

*** "The United States is not the policeman of the world."

Responding to Clinton's call for American leadership, Sanders criticized America's intervention in the Middle East. He said the U.S. "must not be involved in perpetual warfare" in the region.

*** “Sorry.”

Clinton apologized for taking the stage mid-question after returning late from the commercial break.

*** "Everybody should!"

When asked if corporate America should love her, Clinton responded with this zinger.

*** "They ain't going to like me. And Wall Street is going to like me even less."

Sanders, unlike Clinton, said that corporate America would not like him at all.

*** "I have demonstrated the ability to have the backbone to take on Wall Street in ways that Secretary Clinton never, ever has."

O'Malley sharply criticized Clinton for her alleged "cozy relationship" with Wall Street. His critique was echoed by Sanders.

*** "I've got the scars to show from the effort back in the early '90s."

Clinton alluded to her past fight for health care in defense of the "glitches" in the Affordable Care Act.

*** "And in our party, unlike the Republican party, we actually believe that the more our people learn, the more they will earn."

O'Malley criticized Republicans for their education policies.

*** "Now this is getting to be fun."

Sanders seemed to enjoy the back and forth between Clinton and moderator David Muir.

*** "I think this is one of the most important challenges facing not just our next president but our country."When asked about the state of race in America, Clinton spoke of the need to address and fix "systemic racism and injustice and inequities."

*** "We need to do it now as a nation. This is our time and our opportunity to do that."

O'Malley called for an end to excessive lethal force by police officers.

*** "We need to understand that addiction is a disease, not a criminal activity."

Sanders advocated for a massive shift in the way addiction and drug use are dealt with in America.

"When somebody is addicted and seeking help, they should not have to wait three, four months in order to get that help," he said.

Sources: ABC News, USA Today, YouTube

Obama & Clean Energy vs Tax Breaks For Oil Companies (Decision 2012)

Obama Calls for an End to Subsidies for Oil and Gas Companies


With his re-election fate increasingly tied to the price Americans are paying at the gas pump, President Obama called on Congress to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies, and vowed to tackle the country’s long-term energy issues while shunning “phony election-year promises about lower gas prices.”

Mr. Obama, in an appearance at Nashua Community College here, took a page out of his jobs strategy of last year, calling on Americans to contact their Congressional representatives and demand a vote on the oil subsidies in the next few weeks.

“You can either stand up for the oil companies, or you can stand up for the American people,” Mr. Obama said. “You can keep subsidizing a fossil fuel that’s been getting taxpayer dollars for a century, or you can place your bets on a clean-energy future.”

The president aggressively tackled Republicans who have called for the country to increase its own oil production, declaring that “anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problems doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” With the United States consuming more than 20 percent of the world’s oil while having only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, Mr. Obama said “we can’t rely on fossil fuels from the last century.”

Calling for renewed investment in alternative energy, he vowed to make a “serious, sustained commitment to tackle a problem that may not be solved in one year or one term or even one decade.”

Mr. Obama’s decision to spotlight his proposal to end oil and gas subsidies immediately opened him up to criticism from Republicans, who noted that the proposal was unlikely to help lower the price of gas at the pump. The office of the House Speaker, John A. Boehner, sent an e-mail to reporters citing an analysis by the Congressional Research Service last March that found that ending the subsidies could make oil and natural gas more expensive.

Mr. Boehner also told reporters that, after meeting with Mr. Obama at the White House on Wednesday, it didn’t appear that the president would support tapping into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb rising gas prices.

“It didn’t appear to me that the president believes using S.P.R. would have any meaningful effect on gas prices,” Mr. Boehner said.

The oil reserve was created four decades ago to help the country deal with emergencies in oil supply.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, declined to say whether the president would tap into strategic oil reserves if gas prices continued to rise. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New Hampshire, Mr. Carney maintained that the president was fixed on long-term solutions to the country’s oil dependence.

Mr. Carney said oil companies “do not deserve and do not need” subsidies or tax breaks financed by American taxpayers. He described the president as “very concerned” about the impact the spike in gas prices is having on American families.

Mr. Obama’s political advisers are concerned as well, and have indicated privately that Mr. Obama will have a tough time getting re-elected if the price at the pump reached or exceeded $5 a gallon.

In New Hampshire on Thursday, Mr. Obama chided Republicans who he said were hoping to gain political advantage from the rise in oil prices. “Now I know this is hard to believe, but some politicians are seeing higher gas prices as a political opportunity,” Mr. Obama said. “You’re shocked, aren’t you? And right in the middle of an election year. Who would’ve thought?” “Only in politics do people respond to bad news with such enthusiasm,” he said.

Appearing in North Dakota on Thursday, one of Mr. Obama’s Republican challengers, Mitt Romney, said the president was out of touch. North Dakota has benefited from the discovery of the Bakken Shale, an oil-rich deposit.

“Today the president is going to be in New Hampshire talking about energy in North Dakota,” Mr. Romney said. “He’s about as far away from North Dakota as he can get and still be in the United States. His idea of course is to be far enough away from the people who know what’s really going on right here to maybe try and blow one past folks.”

Mr. Obama did not mention North Dakota in his speech.

Republicans in Congress, struggling to regain their message as the economy improves, have latched on to rising oil prices and lobbed new accusations of culpability at the White House almost every day this week. But neither Republicans, nor Democrats, have been able to get legislative traction on their proposed solutions.

House Republican leaders tried to pay for a major transportation and infrastructure bill with receipts from federal lands they would open to oil drilling, but that legislative move appears to have collapsed. They continue to press the Obama administration to approve an oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

“We are seeing some positive economic news, but it is being overshadowed for many families by soaring oil costs,” Mr. Boehner said on Thursday, as he pressed the president to issue more oil leases in offshore areas and to hasten oil drilling permits.

For their part, Democrats blame the spike in oil prices on speculators, but efforts to mandate a review by the Federal Trade Commission have not gotten far, and the party is divided on whether to press for the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Largely absent from the partisan bickering has been the role tensions over Iran have played in the price rise. Leaders of both parties have pressed the administration and American allies to target Iranian oil exports and gasoline imports as a way to tighten the noose in the Iranian economy. Now that such efforts are starting to bite, neither Democrats nor Republicans want to discuss the collateral damage being done to the American economy.


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Rick Perry Accuses Ben Bernanke Of Treason; Makes Anti-Business Remarks (Video)

Rick Perry's 'shocking' gaffe: Ben Bernanke is 'treasonous'


The Republican governor of Texas begins his presidential campaign by insinuating that a Federal Reserve decision to print more money would warrant violent retaliation

The video:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry ignited the first potential controversy of his fledgling presidential campaign Monday night with some violent words for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. "If this guy prints more money between now and the election," he said while campaigning in Iowa, "I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas."

He followed up the "shocking" statement by saying that Bernanke would be committing a "treasonous" act if he approved another round of quantitative easing — in which the Federal Reserve creates electronic money to buy up corporate and government debt and keep borrowing costs down.

Treason is a punishable by death.

The reaction:

"This guy may be good for Texas," says Taylor Marsh at her blog, "but he'd be a disaster for America." Calling Bernanke treasonous for doing something that is the very essence of his job is "political knuckle-dragging" at its scariest. Perry didn't do his campaign any favors with this unpresidential threat, says James Fallows at The Atlantic, but any politician is "destined to make mistakes" when moving from state politics to the intense scrutiny of a national race.

Actually, this "hysteria is ridiculous," says Erick Erickson at Red State. Perry's language is no worse than anything scores of politicians have used to criticize Wall Street executives and blast their political opposition.



Why Rick Perry's Ben Bernanke comment matters in the GOP tent

Forget, for a moment, the left's outrage over Rick Perry's comment last night that Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke could be guilty of treason.

The more immediate political danger of the remark is within the context of the Republican race: Perry very much wants a mano-a-mano contest against Mitt Romney and the irresponsible suggestion of frontier justice for a respected Fed chair threatens that match-up.

Why?

Because Perry's comment is exactly the sort of misstep that will worry the many GOP donors on the sideline right now who chiefly want to beat President Obama. The quote reinforces their central fear about Perry — that he has a cowboy problem — and could prompt them to remain uncommitted.

And as long as there are big money types sitting on their wallet there remains the possibility that a Paul Ryan or Chris Christie could get in late and muddle the race. Perry looks a lot less formidable if he's fending off Michele Bachmann on the right and a Ryan or Christie on the center-right to get a clean shot at Romney.

As some conservatives have noted today, the Bernanke line probably won't hurt Perry with a conservative base that is radicalized at the moment. But, at this stage in the race, the Texan's audience isn't just activists. It's donors, also, and they are far more finicky when it comes to picking candidates.


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Sources: AP, Politico, Taylor Marsh, The Atlantic, The Week, Think Progress, Youtube, Google Maps

Celina Cass Found Dead! Possible Rape & Murder Victim? Autopsy Ordered

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Missing girl's body found in river in northern New England

One week after 11-year-old Celina Cass was last seen, her body was found Monday by divers searching the Connecticut River, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said.

"We have brought Celina home, not the way we wanted to bring her home," Young said early Monday evening.

The girl's father, Adam Laro, said he was heartbroken and grasping for answers after hearing the news.

"I ... can't believe what's gone on," Laro told HLN's "Nancy Grace" show on Monday night. "I have no fingers to point ... I hope there will be some answers, that's what I'm asking."

Young said that the case -- which had been considered a "missing persons" case -- is now being investigated as a "suspicious death." No one has been arrested or named publicly as a suspect in what is now a criminal investigation.

"Based on what we have seen visually, we are treating it as suspicious," the official said.

Celina's body was found around 10:30 a.m. Monday by divers from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department near a hydroelectric plant outside West Stewartstown, New Hampshire, according to the attorney general's office.

Young described it as a "routine search because of the proximity to (Celina's) home," about one-quarter mile away. The site is also near the Canadian border, where the Connecticut River forms the border between New Hampshire and Vermont.

The discovery came a day after Laro -- who was in the hospital when Celina went missing -- said that he was like others "wondering where my daughter is" and hoping she was safe.

On Monday night, the father thanked all those authorities and residents who had put their time and effort into finding Celina.

He said his memories of his daughter are "beautiful, beautiful, just a wonderful hearted person."

"(She was) someone who was loving and caring to a lot of people," Laro said. "That's how I would like to remember her."

Celina was last seen in her room, at her computer, around 9 p.m. July 25, according to police. CNN affiliate WMUR reported that her parents told authorities the girl was gone when they went to wake her up Tuesday morning.

Since then, local, state and federal investigators had searched for her and for clues about her whereabouts "by air, by land, by water," Young said Sunday evening.

Young said on Monday that authorities, including FBI agents, had received nearly 500 tips prior to finding the girl's body.

She described investigators' focus Monday around Celina's home as "routine," after being asked about yellow crime tape there and the removal of a vehicle. The aim is to "determine if we have any evidence" in place's around where the girl was last seen alive.

Young added that the discovery of the girl's body should help authorities "hone the investigation, so you will (still) see searches conducted in different areas."

An autopsy will be conducted on Celina's body on Tuesday morning in Concord, New Hampshire, said Young. The medical examiner will work to determine the cause of the girl's death.

Celina's father said that he had not spoken with his ex-wife, who lived in the house with the girl's stepfather of about a year, since the girl went missing. He described his ex-wife as a "great mother," and added he had positive interaction with the stepfather.

"(It was) a household that supposedly gave her great love, that's what she always told me," Laro said.


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Sources: CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Nancy Grace, Google Maps

Michelle Bachmann Steals Palin's Shine During Debate: Tea Party Star

Who Stole Sarah Palin's Tea Party Thunder During Last Night's New Hampshire GOP Presidential Debate?

MICHELLE BACHMANN!

That's Right! Its Now Officially On!

Bachmann Vs. Palin.

Unfortunately NONE Of Last Night's Candidates Had Anything Different To Say.

ALL Of Their Rhetoric Was Pretty Much The Same:

Slam Pres. Obama While Offering No Concrete SOLUTIONS!

That's Why I'm Sticking With Pres. Obama Because At Least He's Offering Voters Some Sound Solutions Versus Just Empty Rhetoric.

VOTE OBAMA IN 2012!







Michele Bachmann steals the show at GOP debate


“Assume the position!” CNN’s John King ordered the candidates as they approached their lecterns just before airtime for Monday night’s debate.

The Republican presidential contenders did as the moderator told them.

Mitt Romney assumed the position of the capable but cautious frontrunner.

Tim Pawlenty assumed the position of a timid challenger, afraid to take on the leader.

Newt Gingrich assumed the position of a bored college professor.

Ron Paul and Herman Cain assumed all sorts of positions – privatizing Social Security? Loyalty tests for Muslims who want to serve in government? – while Rick Santorum assumed he could get by reciting platitudes.

There was one candidate who rose above the usual positioning, though she stood a head shorter than the six men on the stage. Eleven minutes into the debate, Michele Bachmann stole the show, and she didn’t return it in the subsequent hour and 49 minutes.

“I just want to make an announcement,” she said when asked her first question. “I filed today my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the United States. . . . So I wanted you to be the first to know.”

It was a transparent gimmick – Bachmann had previously left no doubt that she would be running – but it was one of several attention-grabbing moments that allowed the back-bench congresswoman from Minnesota to stand out from the pack.

King treated viewers to a peculiar game, asking each candidate a “this or that” question. Does Bachmann favor Elvis or Johnny Cash? (Answer: both.) Does Santorum prefer Leno or Conan? (Neither.) Further questioning revealed that Pawlenty prefers Coke to Pepsi, Romney likes his wings spicy, Cain enjoys deep-dish pizza, and Paul prefers his BlackBerry to the iPhone.

But really there is only one this-or-that question of importance: Romney, or somebody else? Judging from the polls, Republican voters do not especially want Romney, an unusually weak frontrunner. But as long as six or more rivals are carving up the anti-Romney vote, none has a chance of beating him.

Based on Monday night alone, Bachmann was the one who emerged as the anti-Romney from the otherwise drab field. That is supposed to delight Romney’s advisers, who see her as less viable than the more accomplished Pawlenty. But while Pawlenty on Monday was canned and meek – he doggedly resisted repeating his earlier “Obamneycare” criticism of Romney – Bachmann displayed a powerful appeal to the Tea-Party types who dominate Republican primaries.

She served Tea Partyers all their favorites: “I want to announce tonight President Obama is a one-term president. . . . I will not rest until I repeal Obamacare. . . . There is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the job-killing organization of America. . . . I fought behind closed doors against my own party on TARP.”

Actually, Bachmann didn’t have much of a role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, but nobody was keeping score. They were too busy counting kids. “I have five sons. . . 16 grandkids,” Romney reported.

“Karen and I are the parents of seven,” Santorum boasted.

“I’m the father of two,” said Pawlenty.

“Father of two, grandfather of three,” contributed Cain.

But none could compete with Bachmann: “I’ve had five children, and we are the proud foster parents of 23 great children.” She mentioned that last statistic twice more during the debate.

Bachmann didn’t look into the wrong camera this time, or botch any more Revolutionary War stories. She did say that as president she would “confer with our commanders-in-chief” about the service of gays in the military. And she did contradict herself when she proclaimed that she would not interfere with state laws on marriage but a moment later said she would support a constitutional amendment that would do just that. Even that, though, wasn’t quite as painful as Romney’s wish to hand Afghanistan “over to the Taliban military” before revising that to “Afghan military.”

The scene in the “spin room” after the debate told the story of her triumph. For the first 25 minutes, there were no campaign surrogates in evidence from the Gingrich campaign (after last week’s staff mutiny, his two main surrogates were his daughters, who thought he was “great.”) Same with the Pawlenty campaign, which finally produced campaign manager Nick Ayers (who complained about the moderator’s questions on “Obamneycare,” claiming “CNN, for ratings purposes, wanted a good spat to report on.”).

Romney’s surrogates were trying to find news in their candidate’s make-no-news performance (“he won over a lot of voters in New Hampshire when he announced the Bruins were ahead,” said state Sen. Jeb Bradley).

But more reporters were crowding around Bachmann’s advisers. “We saw the entrance this evening of a candidate who deserves to be here,” Republican pollster Ed Goeas announced. “When you wake up tomorrow morning. . . you’re going to find out Michele Bachmann is driving the debate.”

For one night, at least, that was true.


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New Hampshire 2011 GOP Debate: Slam Obama; NO Solutions! Fact Check! (Videos)

Tonight GOP Presidential Candidates Participating In The 2011 N.H. Debate Repeated The Same, Tired Anti-Obama Rhetoric As Usual.

They Slammed His Policies While Offering NO Solutions!

NO Logical Solutions That Is.

I Think Pres. Obama Should Begin Some Kind Of Damage Control Versus Choosing To Totally Ignore What's Being Said About His Policies & Record.

Don't Respond To Everything! Just The Most EXTREME Rhetoric.







Fact Checking the Republican Debate


As they debated the economic downturn and health care, the Republican candidates who faced off Monday night in New Hampshire sometimes let spin run ahead of the facts.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said that while President Obama didn’t start the recession, “he made it worse, and longer.” Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, called the Obama administration “anti-jobs.”

While it is true that unemployment is far worse today than Mr. Obama’s advisers initially predicted, it would be even worse without the stimulus bill that many Republican candidates derided, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The president’s advisers said in 2009 that the stimulus bill would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. Last month it was at 9.1 percent — even worse than the president’s advisers had warned it would be if Congress had failed to pass the stimulus.

But things would have been worse without the stimulus, according to a report issued last month by the Congressional Budget Office. The stimulus increased the number of people working by between 1.2 million and 3.3 million during the first three months of the year, the report found. It added that the stimulus, which passed with almost no Republican support, lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.6 and 1.8 percentage points.

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Health care also drew misleading or incomplete answers, as the candidates sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Obama’s health care plan among Republicans.

Mr. Romney flatly declared that he would “repeal Obamacare,’’ although the president’s health care law has strong similarities to the law that Mr. Romney pushed through when he was governor. The Massachusetts law, like the federal law, has a mandate requiring most residents to purchase coverage or pay a tax penalty — the provision that has drawn the most anger from conservatives.

Asked about the similarities, Mr. Romney said at the debate that Massachusetts, unlike Washington, did not finance its plan with a tax increase. But since Mr. Romney left office in 2007, the state has had to raise taxes to keep the program afloat.

Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, somewhat reluctantly, repeated his charge that the president’s program was in effect “Obamneycare,’’ since it was modeled on the Massachusetts law.

But in making the attack, Mr. Pawlenty obscured his own changing position on mandates. In a 2006 speech on health care, he called mandates “potentially helpful” and “a worthy goal,” though he stressed that by themselves they would not solve the problem of getting more people insured.

He is not the only candidate with an evolving position. As recently as last month Mr. Gingrich said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had favored “a variation” on the mandate. The next day he issued a statement saying: “I oppose the Obamacare mandate. Period.”

At one point, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who announced her entry into the race at the debate, seemed to be debating herself when she was asked if she would seek to overturn the law in states that have legalized gay marriage.

“I don’t see that it’s the role of a president to go into states and interfere with their state laws,’’ said Ms. Bachmann, a favorite of Tea Party members who believe in states’ rights.

But then, after some other candidates said that they supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, she amended her answer.

“John, I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman,’’ she told the moderator, John King of CNN, “but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.”


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Romney Slapped By Palin's Revenge & "Romney Care" (New Hampshire)

Today On A Beautiful, Spring Day In New Hampshire, Former Massachusetts Governor & Author Of The "Romney Care" Health Care MANDATE, Mitt Romney Officially Announced His Bid For President In The 2012 Elections During A Press Conference.

Romney Who Stood Smiling, So Tall & Handsome, Seemed Enthusiastic As He Spoke Before A Small Audience Of Waiting Spectators.

Little Did He Know That Sarah "Barracuda" Palin (Same One Who QUIT Her Job)
Would Show Up To Ruin His Shining Moment With Her Empty, Ugly Rhetoric.

Palin Openly Attacked The ONLY GOP Candidate Who Might Actually Have A Sliver Of Chance Of Beating Pres. Obama In 2012.

I Personally Don't Believe Romney Can Beat Obama But If Romney Thinks He Can, Well That Remains To Be Seen.

Now Back To Sarah "Barracuda" Palin's New Hampshire Antics.

As I Was Saying While Mitt Romney Was Officially Announcing His Bid For President, Anti-GOP Establishment, Tea Party Queen, Job Quitter Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Also Held A Press Conference.

During Palin's Press Conference She Literally Blasted Romney For His Universal "Romney Care" Health Care Mandate & Cast Lots Of Doubt On Whether Or Not He's Tough Enough To Whip Pres. Obama In 2012.

By Tough Enough I'm Referring To Using Ugly, Racially-Divisive, "Southern Strategy" Rhetoric When Addressing Or Mentioning Pres. Obama's Name.

The SAME Ugly, Racially-Divisive Rhetoric That Cast Senator John McCain The 2008 Presidential Election.

Wait A Minute!

Didn't Romney Help Palin When She Was Campaigning For Alaska Governor's Seat Back In 2006?

Where's The Gratitude Sarah??

(Excuse Me But Isn't "Obama Care" The Same As "Romney Care" Except On A Much Larger Scale?)

Palin Claims She Is Against "Romney Care" & ALL Forms Of Invasive Government.

Now Since She Claims To Hate All Forms Of Invasive Government, I Wonder If Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Filed Her 2010 & 2009 Federal & State Income Taxes.

Today Palin Stole Romney's Limelight.

That's Right!

The SAME Palin Who Despises Barack Obama ONLY Because He's BLACK!

Now Why Would She Attempt To Destroy The GOP's ONLY Possible Republican Candidate For 2012?

Simple: Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Is JEALOUS!

Yeah I Said It!

She's Jealous!

Of What You Ask?

Although Palin Did Graduate From College (Took Her About 6 Years), She Still Appears To Lack Basic History, Foreign Policy & Geography Knowledge. i.e., GENUINE INTELLIGENCE!

While Its True She Was Elected Mayor Of Wasilla, Alaska & Later Governor Of Alaska, She Did So ONLY Due To Showmanship, Charisma & Her LOOKS!

NOT Due To GENUINE INTELLIGENCE!

(For The Record It Doesn't Take GENUINE INTELLIGENCE To Win Political Elections.)

In Fact Her Lack Of Intelligence, Along With Her Use Of Ugly, Racially-Divisive Rhetoric Is What Took Down McCain's 2008 Campaign.

Palin's Lack Of INTELLIGENCE Is Why She's JEALOUS Of Both Barack Obama Who Is Extremely INTELLIGENT & Skeptical Of Most GOP Establishment Politicians.

Now Do You Understand Why Palin Hates Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski?

Murkowski Is An INTELLIGENT, GOP Establishment Politician!

Something Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Wishes She Were But Will NEVER Be!!!

In Essence Because Most GOP Establishment Politicians Are Ashamed Of Palin's Lack Of INTELLIGENCE, They Have Sort Of Shut Her Out.

Oh Sure They Are Polite To Her But Do They Respect Her?

NO! Again I Say NO!

She's Kind Of An Embarrassment To The Republican Party.

(Remember Her Interview With Katie Couric?)

And This Explains Why She Helped Formed The Tea Party.

A Political Party Made Up Of Misfits, Hand-Me-Downs, Non-Establishment People Who Feel Just As Rejected As She Does.

Please Don't Get It Twisted!

I'm NOT Saying Tea Party People Are Stupid By Any Means!

To The Contrary!

Instead What I'm Referring To Is That Most Tea Party People Feel As Though They Have Been Ignored & Rejected By Mainstream, Establishment Politicians On Both Sides Of The Aisle, And Such Rejection Has Made Them Angry!

Sadly Enough Some Of Those Angry People Are Racist But NOT All.

But What Sarah "Barracuda" Palin Has Done Is Used The Anger & Sincerity Of Those Citizens For Her Own Evil Devices.

Palin Doesn't Care If She Ruins The GOP's Chances Of Offering Pres. Obama A Formidable Republican Opponent, One Whom He Will STILL Beat But Nevertheless At Least Give The Man Someone Worth His Time To Debate With On An INTELLIGENT Level!

Palin Doesn't Care Because She Seeks Revenge!

Who Benefits From Her Foolish Schemes?

Pres. Obama, Democrats & Independents!!

I LOVE IT!!

All Obama Supporters Love It!

I Leave You With This:

SO PALIN GO!

Please Keep Destroying The GOP's Chances Of Nominating Mitt Romney To Run Against Pres. Obama In 2012!

Please Keep Doing What You Do Best!

Creating DIVISION Within The Republican Party & Spewing Ugly, Racially-Divisive Rhetoric Against Pres. Barack Obama!

I Can Just See Myself At His 2nd Presidential Inauguration Ceremony & I Can Hardly Wait!

Thanks Sarah "Barracuda"!!

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Romney opens 2012 White House bid challenging Obama

Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama has failed the United States and is pitching himself as an alternative who can fix the nation's ailing economy.

The former Massachusetts governor on Thursday made official his White House run and offered a blistering critique of President Barack Obama. Romney says he would rein in Washington spending and put the country on a course toward economic recovery.

Romney, the closest thing to a frontrunner in a Republican field that lacks one, made his announcement in New Hampshire, a state crucial to his strategy. He came in second place in New Hampshire during his 2008 bid and has invested heavily in the state since.

During a farm visit, Romney said his first priority will be to make America the world's top job creator.

His pitch was tailored to the conservatives who hold great sway in picking the GOP's presidential nominee in Iowa and South Carolina — and the independents who are the largest political bloc in New Hampshire. And it is as much a thesis on his viability as it is an indictment of Obama's leadership.

"A few years ago, Americans did something that was, actually, very much the sort of thing Americans like to do: We gave someone new a chance to lead, someone we hadn't known for very long, who didn't have much of a record but promised to lead us to a better place," Romney said, describing the man he hopes to meet head-to-head in November 2012.

"At the time, we didn't know what sort of a president he would make. ... Now, in the third year of his four-year term, we have more than promises and slogans to go by. Barack Obama has failed America."

In the speech, the former Massachusetts governor launches into a scathing critique of Washington, a place where he has never served.

Decrying federal spending, the one-term governor promised, "My generation will pass the torch to the next generation, not a bill."

Romney comes to a presidential contest that lacks a front-runner. In the past week, the still-forming field became less certain with hints that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was considering a bid. Tea party darling Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is inching toward a run, perhaps giving the anti-tax,libertarian-leaning grassroots movement a candidate to rally around.

Romney sought to claim a slice of that constituency when describing families struggling to get by.

"It doesn't matter if they are Republican or Democrat, independent or libertarian," Romney said. "They're just Americans ... an American family."

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin, her party's 2008 vice presidential nominee, continued a bus tour that not only highlighted her potential to upend the race but also served as a contrast to the lackluster enthusiasm for those already running for president. She was set to appear in New Hampshire at a clambake Thursday, although her aides and advisers were not providing schedules and her supporters in the state were left looking for guidance.

Shift in strategy

Romney has built an experienced political team, collected serious campaign cash and crafted a campaign that is ready to go full-bore. While his likely opponents have jostled for the spotlight, Romney largely has worked in private to fine-tune his political machine. He has chosen to weigh in through statements and editorial pages instead of interviews with journalists or town hall-style meetings with voters.

On Friday, Romney starts to shift that strategy. He has scheduled his first town hall meeting for Manchester and later planned to speak at a Faith and Freedom forum in Washington.

Party leaders have yet to rally around him. Romney hopes his tough talk will inspire support.

"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy," he said, decrying Obama's health care overhaul — a federal version of the one Romney signed into law for Massachusetts.

"From my first day in office my No. 1 job will be to see that America once again is No. 1 in job creation," he said.


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