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					<description><![CDATA[The president’s supporters complained about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a Joint Session of Congress being so close to an election while conveniently forgetting the fact Obama had a high-profile campaign rally in Berlin just prior to the 2008 presidential election. Of course, THAT was entirely proper. Considering how easy it is for [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The president’s supporters complained about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a Joint Session of Congress being so close to an election while conveniently forgetting the fact Obama had a high-profile campaign rally in Berlin just prior to the 2008 presidential election.</p>
<p>Of course, THAT was entirely proper.</p>
<p>Considering how easy it is for Barack Obama to whine about anything involving pushback to his agenda, one can only imagine how much he’d be bitching if a foreign entity came to the United States in 2012 to help facilitate HIS defeat. Then again, we’re way past redundant when it comes to the hypocrisy oozing from this administration.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Jeremy Bird" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird.png"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-98186 size-medium" title="Jeremy Bird" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-150x102.png" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-150x102.png 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird.png 500w" alt="" width="150" height="102" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">It wasn’t just Israel’s left-wing parties that lost big as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic victory yesterday. <strong>Team Obama, which pulled as many strings as it could to defeat Netanyahu</strong>, was embarrassed. <strong>It had dispatched Jeremy Bird, the architect of the grass-roots and online organizing efforts behind both of Obama’s presidential campaign, to Israel to work the same magic there with a group called Victory 15.</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/JohnFund/israel-netanyahu-election-hillary/2015/03/18/id/630817/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Newsmax, 3/18/15</a></p>
<p>The possibly illegal meddling was flagged early on, resulting in the typical petulant, Obama-style mocking response.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">V15 denied the charges, and said that “the Netanyahus and Likud gathered so many recycled bottles that they are convinced that they will be able to make imaginary genies come out of them… <strong>V15 activists will continue to capture the junctions and the street</strong>, while they continue to recycle and hallucinate.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/herzog-likud-is-panicking-lying-about-labor-ties-to-v15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Times of Israel, 2/1/15</a></p>
<p>Obama and his minions are really good at gloating when they win but are seldom gracious in defeat.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Jeremy Bird at V15 campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv.png"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-98190 size-medium" title="Jeremy Bird at V15 campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv-150x100.png" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv-150x100.png 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv-500x333.png 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv-300x200.png 300w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv-360x240.png 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jeremy-Bird-at-V15-campaign-headquarters-in-Tel-Aviv.png 600w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">Among the most disappointed with the results of Tuesday’s elections are <strong>the activists of the V15 group – the organization that may or may not have been funded by American and European interests, but whose aim was to remove Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from office. “A confusing night turned into a painful morning,”</strong> the group said in a statement. <strong>“It was painful not because we lost, but because we have no faith in the winners.”</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192846#.VQt6HeGGOO4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Israel National News, 3/18/15</a></p>
<p>We know the feeling.</p>
<p>As in anything involving the Obama administration, there are now questions as to the legality of what Victory 15 did, let alone the propriety.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="U.S. State Department" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-78896 size-thumbnail" title="U.S. State Department" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment-100x100.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment-100x100.jpg 100w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment-125x125.jpg 125w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/statedepartment.jpg 500w" alt="" width="100" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">A US Senate investigatory committee has launched a probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the State Department of US President Barack Obama gave the nonprofit taxpayer-funded grants, Fox News reported on Saturday. According to the source, <strong>the probe is looking into “funding” by the OneVoice Movement – a Washington-based group that has received $350,000 in recent State Department grants</strong>, Fox News reported.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Report-Senate-panel-probing-Obama-administration-ties-to-effort-to-unseat-Netanyahu-393905" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jerusalem Post, 3/14/15</a></p>
<p>So, of course, those possible improprieties can quickly be mended when you have the power of the top office behind you….</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-98189 size-medium" title="&quot;OneVoice is an international grassroots movement that amplifies the voice of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, empowering them to propel their elected representatives toward the two-state solution.&quot;" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/OneVoice-150x81.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/OneVoice-150x81.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/OneVoice.jpg 240w" alt="" width="150" height="81" /><span style="color: #333399;">The American nonprofit</span> <a href="http://www.onevoicemovement.org/">OneVoice Movement</a> <span style="color: #333399;">– under scrutiny by a U.S. Senate panel over possible links to a campaign to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – quietly filed paperwork that would allow it to engage in political activism after two leading Republican lawmakers questioned its use of government funds, FoxNews.com has learned.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #333399;"><strong>—</strong></span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/17/obama-linked-nonprofit-filed-for-new-irs-status-after-accusation-meddling-in.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News, 3/18/15</a></p>
<p>Like many other issues that have gone unanswered, it will probably take years after the anticipated departure of Obama and his cronies before we know just how many State Department <em>(taxpayer)</em> dollars went into the attempt to unseat yet another foreign leader.</p>
<p>Obama also had boots on the ground during elections in Great Britain where his guys profited off of both sides.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Jim Messina leaving No10 after a meeting with David Cameron" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-No.-10-Downing-Stre.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-128619 size-medium" title="Jim Messina leaving No10 after a meeting with David Cameron" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-No.-10-Downing-Stre-150x181.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-No.-10-Downing-Stre-150x181.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-No.-10-Downing-Stre.jpg 320w" alt="" width="150" height="181" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">British Prime Minister David Cameron kept hold of power and was moving to form a new government. In the wings, <strong>American political guru Jim Messina was adding another to his long list of wins.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Messina, a top aide to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and the chief of his 2012 re-election bid, joined Cameron’s Conservative Party as a paid consultant in 2013 and worked to export the latest innovations in American-style campaigning to the U.K.</strong> The former White House deputy chief of staff drew fire from U.S. liberals for joining up with Cameron.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">A pair of Obama veterans, meanwhile, was recovering from rival Labour’s loss. <strong>Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod and advertising maven Larry Grisolano had worked for Ed Miliband’s Labour Party</strong>, which suffered deep losses. Miliband resigned from his post as party leader and the Americans were heading back across the pond in defeat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="http://time.com/3851821/british-elections-david-axelrod-jim-messina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TIME Magazine, 5/8/15</a></p>
<p><a title="@davidaxelrod Tweet, 5/8/15" href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/596666243966443520" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-128618" title="@davidaxelrod Tweet, 5/8/15" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Axelrod-Tweet-500x267.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Axelrod-Tweet-500x267.png 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Axelrod-Tweet-150x80.png 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Axelrod-Tweet.png 633w" alt="" width="418" height="223" /></a><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Labour leader Ed Miliband and adviser David Axelrod" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Miliband-Axelrod.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-128620" title="Labour leader Ed Miliband and adviser David Axelrod" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Miliband-Axelrod-500x339.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Miliband-Axelrod-500x339.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Miliband-Axelrod-150x102.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Miliband-Axelrod.jpg 644w" alt="" width="329" height="223" /></a><br />
Obama has taken it upon himself <em>(and his superior intellect)</em> to meddle with American lives just because he could, but just because he can also keep his loyalists fat and happy, doesn’t mean they’re consistently good at it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Jim Messina" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-129696 size-medium" title="Jim Messina" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina-500x332.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jim-Messina.jpg 660w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>Messina has agreed to a consulting job in Berlin: He wants to help the center-left Social Democratic Party </strong>(SPD)<strong> beat Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democrats in the next national election in 2017.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">This Saturday, Messina will make his first appearance in this new capacity. The SPD plans to introduce their new helper for the first time at the so-called “Campaign Camp” in the Schöneberger Gasometer in Berlin. He will report on the newest trends in campaign work: data analysis, addressing voters and online communication.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/obama-insider-jim-messina-wants-to-beat-angela-merkel-a-1051358.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Der Spiegel, 9/4/15</a></p>
<p>It doesn’t matter where.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Prime Minister Renzi and Jim Messina" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-128628 size-medium" title="Prime Minister Renzi and Jim Messina" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me-500x335.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Prime-Minister-Renzi-and-Me.jpg 666w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">The premier relies on the American communication guru for the referendum campaign. The triumphs with Obama and Cameron, the 400 thousand euros of the parcel, the McDonald’s, the psychologist wife, the fast cars, the big data and the door-to-door: this is the “Mr. Wolf” who will try to convince Italy to say Yup.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><strong>“You are Matteo, right? I’m Jim Messina, I solve problems.”</strong> The first meeting between Prime Minister Renzi and the American guru of communication is good to imagine him so, on the threshold of the house, in full Tarantino style.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="https://www.vanityfair.it/news/politica/16/10/07/jim-messina-risolvo-problemi-renzi-referendum-ritratto" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vanity Fair Italia, 10/7/16</a></p>
<p>But they travelled well.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" style="color: #808080;" title="Jim Messina" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-128629 size-medium" title="Jim Messina" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-150x84.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group.jpg 960w" alt="" width="150" height="84" /></a><span style="color: #333399;">Mr Messina has been a paid consultant to three disastrous electoral forays: David Cameron’s campaign for the UK to remain in the EU, Matteo Renzi’s Italian constitutional reform effort, and Theresa May’s Conservative general election campaign.</span></span></strong></p>
<p>Unlike the private sector where results determine success, politics pays their fat-and-happy losers well.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">His company, the <strong>Messina Group, was paid £276,000 by the Remain campaign, and a reported €400,000 for its Italian work. It is not clear how much Mr Messina was paid for his most recent work for the Tories.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;"><a style="color: #333399;" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-14371 size-medium" title="Messina Group website landing page" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-1-150x89.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="89" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-1-150x89.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-1-500x295.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Messina-Group-1.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>The Messina Group declined to comment. Last year it did also work for Spain’s Popular party in its successful campaign. <strong>It was paid a reported €290,000 for its work in that election, which took place days after the EU referendum.</strong> Mr Messina, a 47-year-old former US Senate staff member, also showed misplaced confidence ahead of last year’s US presidential election.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #333399;">“Dear panicking Dems, she will win,” he tweeted in September 2016, seven weeks before Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. He also accused Mr Trump of running the “most incompetent [general election] campaign in history.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #333399;">—</span> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/479aedd0-4f5e-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Financial Times, 6/12/17</a></p>
<p>So while the Democrat left pontificates about the horrors of foreigners meddling in our elections, take a good look at some of Barack Obama’s most trusted campaign lieutenants who are making really good money on foreign soil, working to elect politicians sympathetic to the so-called progressive agenda; not necessarily what’s best for the United States.</p>
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