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New Ebola Czar Ron Klain Is A Long-Time Lobbyist, Democratic Operative

That Obama would appoint a long-time Democratic operative with zero public health or federal administrative experience tells us everything we need to know about how Obama views the Ebola panic: Ebola is a political problem for the White House, not a public health problem for the nation.

You don’t pick a former White House staffer to run a massive public health effort if you think you have a public health problem. You pick a former White House staffer if you view this as a political problem to be managed for the remaining weeks heading into the election.

It’s Time for Obama to Man Up and Back Biden

In October, Eduardo Bolsonaro made a shocking statement. The son of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right authoritarian president of Brazil, suggested in an interview that his country may need to return to the tactics employed by its former military dictatorship to help crush his father’s enemies on the left. He asserted without evidence that Cuba was behind recent protests in Latin America and Argentina’s election of a moderate Peronist was part of a conspiracy to bring about a new leftist “revolution” in Latin America.

“If the left radicalizes to this extent [in Brazil] we will need to respond, and that response could come via a new AI-5,” he said, referring to the notorious Institutional Act Number Five, a notorious 1968 edict issued by the military government that indefinitely outlawed freedom of expression and assembly and shuttered the National Congress. The act began an era of intense political repression and media censorship. Hundreds of dissidents were tortured, killed and disappeared during the dictatorship, which ended in 1985.

Elected officials in the country quickly denounced Bolsonaro’s comments as “repugnant” and a “serious attack on democracy.” American conservatives, on the other hand, invited Bolsonaro to take the stage at one of DC’s biggest political events of the year, this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). ..

CAPITOL HILL: @LindseyGrahamSC says @realDonaldTrump "probably knows more about medicine and specifically viruses than any of the so-called scientists at the NIH and CDC.

-a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote

Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans

left wing advocates of extended government management and control of individual affairs

Just imagine if a black male president had done this.

Moreover they soon end up as government controlled and rationed commodities, and, as a result of inept government/socialist management. the services themselves become stagnant, lacking in innovation or customer focus, and finally scarce.

I can remember a time when he stood on stage and wasn't wearing a US flag pin, or the time the anthem played and he didn't place his hand over his heart.

If it starts killing normal healthy people in their teens thru 40's, then it could be really deadly but so far it just makes people in those age groups sick and nothing more.

Yes, it's says right in the US Constitution that all public officials must wear a flag lapel pin. You recently identified "whataboutism" as an attempt to mask hypocrisy — so what does your refusal to criticize your stupid president's conduct HERE make you?

Once again you reveal yourself as one with a limited imagination who must grasp at cultural straws as you attempt to remain afloat in a bewildering and vaguely threatening world where everyone doesn't think or behave the way you desperately wish they would.

Oh, you mean unimportant people? Yeah, god forbid we should worry about the old and infirm.