Beltway Bits By Ronald Kessler
REINCE PRIEBUS: OBAMA USING DIRTY TACTICS President Obama’s campaign has devolved into nothing more than negative attack tactics, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, tells Newsmax. Priebus cites Obama’s decision to portray profits and Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital as evil. “The idea is you make profits, you
GOOD LIFE Biden and Obama hit the links. Inset: Biden waves from Air Force Two.
employ people, you allow others to live the American dream, send their kids to school, and have a decent retirement,” Priebus says. “All of that requires profit. It is a pretty bizarre thing in this country to start demonizing profits.” Priebus adds, “Obama’s biggest
The vice president’s residence is a handsome 9,150-square-foot, three-story mansion overlooking Massachusetts Avenue Northwest in Washington.
C
omplete with pool, pool house, and indoor gym, the white brick
house was built in 1893 as the home of the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory. Congress turned it into the official residence of the vice president in 1974 and gave it the address One Observatory Circle. During the day, at least five Navy
stewards attend to every personal need of the second family, including cleaning, cooking, shopping for food, and doing the laundry. Biden has portrayed himself as a regular
Joe, a product of a working-class family who takes on millionaires and Republicans who are said to be out of touch with middle-class Americans. But his jet-setter weekend excursions say something else about him.
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ronaldk@newsmax.com Pamela Kessler contributed to this column.
problem is he is not real anymore. Obama has become the dirtiest, most negative presidential candidate in the history of this country.”
BAY BUCHANAN’S UNEXPECTED LESSONS GOP political authority and former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan’s new book, Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom, is an insightful guide for any parent bringing up kids. Buchanan is currently a political commentator and senior adviser for Mitt Romney.
Among other details, her book
reveals the struggles single mothers have and how adversity can be overcome through perseverance. She also offers candid details of her life, including how she got her name. When she came home from the hospital, her 1-year-old brother couldn’t pronounce “baby,” so he
called her “bay bay.” But as treasurer of the United States under President Reagan, Buchanan acceded to her father’s request that she sign her Christian name, Angela, to newly printed currency.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WATERBOARDING For nearly 10 years, we have been told by critics that CIA-enhanced interrogation and waterboarding were useless and constituted torture. Jose Rodriguez Jr., the
former chief of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, told the real story recently to a luncheon gathering of the Association of Former Intelligence Oficers. After 9/11, for help dealing with
SIGN OFF Bay Buchanan signs for currency as Donald Reagan looks on.
uncooperative terrorists, Rodriguez turned to a private company that trained members of the U.S. military by subjecting them to waterboarding in case they were captured. The company developed an interrogation
program that passed legal muster. The Justice Department and White House approved the techniques. The CIA decided that water should not be dripped on prisoners for more than 40 seconds. As it turned out, none was subjected to more than 10 seconds. The enhanced interrogation program gave the CIA an in-depth understanding of al-Qaida. Nearly all of the terrorists
involved in the attacks were eventually killed or captured, including bin Laden, whose location was pinpointed in part with clues obtained from waterboarding.
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