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Hillary Clinton Welcomes Planned Release of Cuban Political Prisoners
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCuba will reportedly free 52 dissidents in what would be the island nation's largest release of political prisoners in over a decade, a gesture welcomed by the Obama administration. Catholic officials said the planned release of pro-democracy activists arrested in a March 2003 crackdown in Havana was negotiated by Cuba's archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, and Spanish diplomats, The Washington Post reported. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in Washington the news was a positive sign, but long overdue. Clinton did not comment on the potential effect on U.S.-Cuba relations, ...
Clinton Criticizes Russia for 'Occupying' Georgia
By not in system - AOL NewsTBILISI, Georgia (July 5) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Monday for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it signed nearly two years ago to end the fighting in this small former Soviet state. She asserted that Russia is occupying parts of Georgia and building permanent military bases in contravention of the truce. "We're calling on the Russians to enforce the agreement they signed," she told a news conference with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at her side. She said that includes pulling its troops back to the positions they held before ...
Hillary Clinton: U.S. Will Sue Over Arizona Immigration Law
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Clinton says the federal government will sue Arizona, challenging the state's tough new immigration law, which gives police power to stop and question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. Clinton told an Ecuadorean television station earlier this month that the Justice Department, at President Obama's direction, "will be bringing a lawsuit." But she did not say on what grounds the U.S. would do so, and the Justice Department declined to confirm that such a case was going forward. But on Friday, a senior Obama administration official told CBS News a ...
Bill, Hillary and Chelsea: An Only Child's Wedding Day
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyI've seen Chelsea Clinton twice outside of the political arena. One afternoon, when she was no older than 10, my mom and I spotted her and Hillary at a downtown mall in Little Rock. Chelsea wanted to buy something, but Hillary said no, repeatedly and sternly. It was a telling moment between a mother and a little girl. Perhaps, Hillary was trying to teach Chelsea a lesson on saving money. Or that even kids who happen to be only children don't always get everything they want. A few weeks later, I happened upon Chelsea and Bill shopping in a department store. Bill was trying on suits, and ...
Hillary Clinton to Defense? How About VP? A Musical Chairs Scenario
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyTypically at this point in the life of an administration, we're writing about turf wars and personality clashes, and there have been some in President Obama's case, notably last week's forced resignation of the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair. But the more unlikely buzz in the no-drama Obama administration is the seamless bond that has developed between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a Republican holdover from the Bush administration. It is so remarkable that Politico writes about their relationship almost as if they are office husband ...
Elena Kagan's Fashion Sense: Robin Givhan and the Nominee's Legs
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNow it's come to this: the way Elena Kagan sits. In a lengthy examination of the Supreme Court nominee's seating posture – "hunched with her legs ajar" – the Washington Post fashion writer gives us a tour of Kagan's hip-length jackets, underpinnings, hosiery, shoes and jewelry, the way she "walks with authority and stands up straight," and the way she defies convention with that business with the legs. "In photographs of Kagan sitting and chatting in various Capitol Hill offices, she doesn't appear to ever cross her legs,'' the writer says. "Her posture stands out because for so ...
Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
Macy Clinton, Hillary and Bill's Niece, on Food Stamps
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyMacy Clinton, the 18-year-old daughter of Bill Clinton's half brother, Roger, is on food stamps. A cosmetology student with an unspecified part-time job in Cooksville, Tenn., Macy Clinton told "Inside Edition" that she relies on government assistance to buy groceries. "It's hard because I'm a Clinton too, but I have to be on food stamps and I have to sacrifice everything just to make it day by day," she said in an interview televised Tuesday on the syndicated TV show. Among the ironies in this tale of woe is that as president Clinton signed welfare reform legislation in 1996 -- an ...
US Sends Manuel Noriega, 76, to Stand Trial in France
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 26) -- Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian military dictator who has spent the past 20 years behind bars in the United States, was extradited to France today. Noriega, now 76, was placed on Air France Flight 695, which departed Miami for Paris at 5:46 p.m., CBS News reported. The one-time military strongman was handcuffed and accompanied by federal marshals. WSVN-TV / AP Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, wearing hat, right, arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami to board a flight to Paris on Monday. Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
Which Leaders Rock Our World? Drumroll, Please ...
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 23) -- President Barack Obama is still the world's most respected leader, according to a new six-country poll. Released today by France 24 and Radio France Internationale, the Harris Interactive Poll asked 6,135 adults between the ages of 16 and 64 who live in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany or Spain to name their favorite world leaders. Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed chose Obama, which is one percentage point higher than when Harris Interactive asked the same question in November. Getty Images President Obama and the Dalai Lama rank at the top of a new ...
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