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CNN Politics

Former White House Press Secretary Joins CNN

Jay Carney, the former Press Secretary for President Obama made his debut on CNN as a political commentator last night, after the president’s address on deaking with the ISIL threat

Sam Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief said in a statement.

“Jay’s unique experience as both a journalist and a White House press secretary make him an invaluable voice for the network as we cover the final two years of the Obama Administration and look ahead to the coming campaigns.

“We’re fortunate to have Jay on our air tonight to provide analysis and insight surrounding the President’s address to the nation.”

In his own statement,  Carney said that he was “thrilled to be joining CNN at a time when there is so much happening in the nation and the world.”

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Oh, And The Press Secretary Jay Carney Also Resigned

It happened so fast I almost got a whiplash.

The President:

“Jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary and a great adviser. He has good judgement, good temperament and he’s got a good heart. I’m gonna miss him a lot.”

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North Korea Politics

White House to Dennis Rodman – Whatever Dude!

Jay Carney, the President’s press secretary didn’t actually say whatever dude, but he could have. When Carney responded to Rodman CNN outburst, he basically dismissed the nose-ring wearing nutcase.

“I’m not going to dignify that outburst with a response,” Carney said at as his daily press briefing. He repeated the Obama administration’s position that the communist country has the choice to “join the community of nations” or will face further sanctions and isolation “because of its insistence upon using its resources to fund its military program and fund its nuclear ambitions.”

During the CNN interview, host Chris Cuomo asked Rodman if he would speak up for Bae’s family and “say, ‘Let us know why this man is being held?’ If you can help him, will you take the opportunity?”

The eccentric hoops star began to raise his voice, responding, “The one thing about politics, Kenneth Bae did one thing…If you understand what Kenneth Bae did. Do you understand what he did? In this country?” Rodman seemed to suggest Bae did something wrong but would not go into detail.

Bae, who was in North Korea as a tourist in 2012, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for alleged anti-government crimes. The punishment came amid high tensions between the U.S. and North Korea following Pyongyang’s third nuclear test. The White House has repeatedly urged North Korea to release Bae, a Christian missionary who was living in China and leading tours to North Korea.

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Healthcare

White House – Obama Spoke About Fixing Healthcare Before Clinton’s Statement

So the Republicans are jumping in unison on Bill Clinton’s statement that Obama should “fix” Obamacare to allow people to keep the garbage insurance plans if they want to. To these people with such short attention span, Bill Clinton is the only person of importance in the Democratic party to make such a request.

But if they were listening to the President last week in an interview with Chuck Todd of MSNBC, these same dim-wits would have heard the President himself say that he and his team are working on ways to fix this problem in the healthcare law. White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked about this in a recent press conference, and had to remind everyone that what Clinton said is actually a moot point, because it is already being looked into.

JULIE PACE, ASSOCIATED PRESS: I wanted to get your reaction to a comment that President Clinton made in an interview that was posted today. He was talking about health care, he said, President Obama should honor his commitment to people who have lost their health care or losing their health care under the president’s law, even if it means changing that law. Does the president agree with the comment?

JAY CARNEY: I think as you saw the president say in an interview with NBC last week, the answer’s yes. The president has asked his team with looking at a range of options — as he said — to make sure that nobody is put in a position where their plans have been canceled and they can’t afford a better plan even though they’d like to have a better plan. 

You heard the president address this very issue in his interview last week. And I think it’s important to note that President Clinton, in that interview, also said, and I quote, ‘the big lesson is that we are better off with this law than without it.’ And he said, quote, ‘the enrollment period did not come off well because the national website wasn’t ready. But this happened once before. It happened when President Bush put in the Medicare drug program for seniors, which was not as complicated but had exactly the same problem with the rollout. It was a disaster. There were people that lost their prescriptions for their existing medicine and they fixed it.’

So, the president, as you know, has pledged to ask his team, tasked his team to look at potential actions that could be taken to address this problem, because his focus is on making sure that people get quality and affordable health insurance.

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But it’s a waste of time. These Republicans would only hear what they want to hear, and Clinton’s statement plays right into their gameplan – creating enough noise about Obamacare, in hopes that Americans would not buy into the law, thus making it a failure.

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