Where do you stand - a poll
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 23:48
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Rue,
An additional afterthought. I read an interview a while back with a conservative politician who said that he understood the part where the opposition party represented an idelogical position with which he disagreed, which they had every right to, but the part that everyone else was missing was that, independent of that fact, they were actually evil. The press treated it with the attitude of "batty old right wing coot." The candidate was of course Paul Hindenburg, who at 84 was led by a loose coalition of conservative groups known collectively as the "junkers" against their opposition, who were the Nazis.
Evil is evil, it transcends party lines. Hindenberg won that election, but was later ruled "a batty old coot" and replaced by people who failed to recognize evil for what it was.
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DT,
Same issue here - I don't have time to respond at length, probably not this week. So I would appreciate it if you could supply some links. Also, if you look at the Lewinsky story - it started much earlier with Whitewater. Ken Starr ran the sloppiest, leakiest, dirtiest investigation, impugning anyone he wanted through anonymous sources. (Compare his investigation with Fitzgerald's Plame one, which had everyone guessing for years.) Whitewater blended in with an ongoing and endless series of accusations that lasted from August 1994 to February 1997 to the tune of $80 M. It was a campaign to ruin the Clintons politically, financially, and personally, amplified ad nauseum by the press. The press was completely in sync with the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' through the multi-year campaign.
PS Today the headline in every US news source is "Chavez calls Bush the Devil" - all using the same words. Of all the important things that could and should be headlined - THIS is what they ALL decided on? And THIS is how they ALL independently decided to say it?
(BTW, no, this isn't a pathetic attempt to make Bush look "bad". You know better than that.)
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I'm a regestered Independant. So as far as I'm concerned they both suck. JOSS FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
I wear a blaster under my Browncoat
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This was all from stuff which was bouncing around in the 90s, so I have no links, I'm sure someone has it all though.
Ken Starr was pretty sloppy, there was a guy doing it before him who someone took out of the mix but I forget his name. Sure, they botched it. No argument here. Their suspect was guilt of more than a thousand Al Capones, and they couldn't secure jack.
Its hard though, look at how no one has taken Bush down, despite him being a Neanderthug.
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