Hillary Clinton and the new President - Trump Era

Daily Mail: Reports " An ice-cold handshake at last between President Trump and Hillary Clinton - after she sits glum-faced through his inauguration as crowd chant 'lock her up'  "

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This blog thought that Bill and Hillary Clinton acted with dignity throughout the Trump take over of power, it must have been very hard for HRC, she had the Crown twice within her grasp and she lost both times.   One should suggest after some rest and recovery that HRC run for something, like Mayor of New York or Governor of New York States, that would annoy POTUS a bit.   The real power struggle will come when HRC and Obama fight it out to run the Democratic Party, as at the moment the Party is leaderless, the 2020 candidates have not made much of an impression yet, the election cycle never ends.   One can argue that since HRC lost again then informal leadership of the Party should go to President Obama, one can see the former First Lady not been happy with that idea.   Democracy can be brutal, but still the best system. 

Obama's Last Acts as President - Obama Era

BBC News - Live Reporting: Reports in its 7.11pm post the following, " Just before the inauguration ceremony began, the Associated Press reported that a B-52 bomber hit an al-Qaeda training camp in Syria on Thursday, killing more than 100 people...Less than 24 hours earlier a combination of B-2 stealth bombers and drones struck two military camps in a remote part of Libya, killing up to 90 militants, according to Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook. "

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One must credit President Obama will the use of drones when it comes to taking down terrorists, its one of the few strong aspects of the Obama Presidency.   This blog could never understand while President Obama was good at killing terrorists he was letting them go from Gitmo, seems like a split decision.  One can only hope that President Trump keeps up the action, the Obama years saw the near destruction of Al - Qaeda and Daesh as effective terrorists groups, of course there have been individual incidents but nothing like 9/11.  The War on Terror is on going.

The Son of Star Wars OR SDI - Trump Agenda

The White House: Reports the following agenda for President Trump when it comes to defence of the US, " We will also develop a state-of-the-art missile defense system to protect against missile-based attacks from states like Iran and North Korea...Cyberwarfare is an emerging battlefield, and we must take every measure to safeguard our national security secrets and systems. We will make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command, and recruit the best and brightest Americans to serve in this crucial area. "

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Thus POTUS is following the Reagan Agenda of a missile defense against rogue nations, the Russians will not be too happy, while Cyberwarfare will be built up.   The Trump Administration will follow a policy of " Peace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy. This principle will make possible a stable, more peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground. "  The Trump Administration will be tested either through actions by rogue nations, such as North Korea or terrorists attacks, the new Administration has to hit the ground running.

The White House: Reports on the Inaugural Address of President Trump:  The main message of President Trump in his Inaugural Address was the following, " From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.  From this moment on, it’s going to be America First. "

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The Inaugural Address was a sharp departure from the Obama years and previous Presidents, the President stated the following on America's role in the past, " For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry;

Subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military;

We've defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own;

And spent trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.

We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.

One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind.

The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world.

But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future.

We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power. "  

The message gives the impression that Europe and the Baltic States will have to defend themselves, this will go down badly in Eastern Europe AND the Baltic States.   Putin's Russia will try to see how far they can push their power and interests, this is a return to America's isolation role during the 1920s and 1930s.   That of course lead to WW2.

President Obama's Farewell Address - Obama Era - Historical Record

Last Attacks by the Obama Administration on Trump Administration - Trump Era

CNN - Politics: Reports " Outgoing administration raises alarm bells on Trump readiness "

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In the last hours of the Obama Administration the political hacks of the Administration are throwing out their last arrows at the new President and his team.   The process of nomination and confirmation takes time in the US Congress, the Bill Clinton Administration had to go through a few Attorney General nominees before they had a confirmation.   In the Bush 41 Administration they had a problems getting a nominee through before they picked Dick Cheney as Defence Secretary.   It is a political game in D.C the opposition Party tries to knock off a nominee, just to show they have power and political payback.  Both Parties have political hacks, it's the nature of the political game. 

The TRUMP lands in D.C - Trump Era

Fox News: Reports " Trump makes rounds in DC, after completing Cabinet line-up "

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It was fun watching BBC News has it covered the arrival of the President - Elect in Washington D.C, it was so biased it was nuts, one interview was about the psychology of the President, and then a writer said he was afraid of the results of a Trump Presidency.  BBC News really has to grow up, is the level of coverage we are going to get, if so this blog suggests that News Junkies turn on to Fox News, at least they are objective in their coverage, a Conservative edge but objective.     The liberal mainstream press has to get over itself, this coverage recalls the early Reagan years, in around 1980 the left wing Guardian had a cartoon of Reagan in cowboy costume and the ruins of the Capital Hill, yes dear voter, they were nuts at the time.   Let us hope we get better coverage tomorrow.