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Do Powerful Men Need Something Else to Keep Them Motivated?

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Some time ago, Dominique Strauss Kahn , the former chief of the IMF, had everything going for him: money, wealth, the most prestigious global position one could have, a great achiever for a wife, and was even a kind of leader-in-waiting for France. Yet he was caught with his pants down, and accused of rape, kicking off an embarrassing scandal, especially for one so high-powered, well established and respected, which ultimately lost him his job. Worse still, it emerged that he had a string of liaisons, and treated women none too greatly, perhaps like his own candy shop where he could always help himself and with no questions asked. But he was not unique. At the same time, in the United States Congress, other lawmakers were also allowing their brains too move south too, especially Anthony Weiner (who used his phone to send "crotch and bulge-revealing photos" to women, including a high school girl) ) and David Wu (who was accused of having sex with a supporter's 18 year...

5 Reasons Donald Trump Reposted The Racist Video of the Obamas

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It was Eleanor Roosevelt , the amazing 32nd White First Lady of the USA, who once said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” And she was so right. The serene, responsible Barack and Michelle Obama , without doing anything negative, is still showing White supremacist, Donald Trump , how true leaders conduct themselves; that he cannot make them feel inferior, no matter what he does.  Trump has always felt inferior to the Obamas because of his low self-esteem and obvious envy and greed. And we won't even mention that Nobel Peace Prize he craves which President Obama got. Not having received public acknowledgement or acclaim from them, especially as he secretly seeks their approval, he has turned on them over the past year in a vicious way that only a rabid, obsessed person is capable of doing. This latest gutter action from the President of the United States, depicting the Obamas as apes (and I won’t dignify it by reposting it here) has come about for ...