by TruthMatters, Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:04:16 AM EDT
I think we are all going in circles, Hillary supporters don't listen to Obama supporters, and Obama supporters don't listen to Hillary Supporters, but
I think Carl Bernstein, sums it up best here:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/26/hi
llary-clinton-truth-or-consequences/#mor
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"The Bosnian episode is a watershed event, because it indelibly brings to mind so many examples of this tendency- from the White House years and, worse, from Hillary Clinton's take-no-prisoners presidential campaign. Her record as a public person is replete with "misstatements" and elisions and retracted and redacted and revoked assertions...
When the facts surrounding such characteristic episodes finally get sorted out -- usually long after they have been challenged -- the mysteries and contradictions are often dealt with by Hillary Clinton and her apparat in a blizzard of footnotes, addenda, revision, and disingenuous re-explanation: as occurred in regard to the draconian secrecy she imposed on her health-care task force (and its failed efforts in 1993-94); explanations of what could have been dutifully acknowledged, and deserved to be dismissed as a minor conflict of interest -- once and for all -- in Whitewater; or her recent Michigan-Florida migration from acceptance of the DNC's refusal to recognize those states' convention delegations (when it looked like she had the nomination sewn up) to her re-evaluation of the matter as a grave denial of basic human rights, after she fell impossibly behind in the delegate count.The latest episode -- the sniper fire she so vividly remembered and described in chilling detail to buttress her claims of foreign policy "experience" -- like the peace she didn't bring to Northern Ireland, recalls another famous instance of faulty recollection during a crucial period in her odyssey.On January 15, 1995, she had just published her book, It Takes a Village, intended to herald a redemptive "come back" after the ravages of health care; Whitewater; the Travel Office firings she had ordered (but denied ordering); the disastrous staffing of the White House by the First Lady, not the President -- all among the egregious errors that had led to the election of the Newt Gingrich Congress in 1994."
it is important because it is a patten.
that is why we won't let it go
p.s. I am still new here, can someone tell me how I can make hyperlinks and quote in block text? please? thanks!
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by Don Davis, Mon Jan 01, 2007 at 06:20:01 AM EST
Reprinted from The Satirical Political Report http://satiricalpolitical.com
Proving once again that his inside access as a journalist is unparalleled, Bob Woodward, appearing today with Larry King, discussed his exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein -- conducted just moments before the deposed Iraqi dictator was hanged for his crimes.
Wearing the black hood of the executioner to conceal his identity, a trick he learned during Watergate days from Deep Throat, Woodward extracted truly remarkable revelations from Saddam, even as Woodward placed the noose around the doomed man's neck.
The transcript released by Woodward reveals that Saddam was strongly opposed to the U.S. invasion, but was reluctant to publicly criticize the Bush Administration, according to the longstanding protocol of honor among thieves.
Hussein also confesses to Woodward that although he always despised Bush 41 for kicking him out of Kuwait, he subsequently developed a grudging respect for the old man, especially after witnessing the rank incompetence of his son, who he referred to as the "not so great Satan."
CONTINUED at: http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=492
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by Quequeg, Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 06:07:48 AM EST
Earlier in the year, when the Jack Abramoff scandal was still in the news, Larry King interviewed those famous reporters that uncovered Watergate: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein.
Here's Carl Bernstein:
Larry: Carl, what is going on.Carl: The system is corrupt, thoroughly corrupt. It's become corroded. The legislative system in the Congress and the state legislatures is subject only to money. And what the Founder's intended to be a citizen legislature is an oligarchal legislature today. It is a plutocratic legislature today. Unless money is involved, forget about the public good. And if money is involved, forget about the public good. The system isn't working. It's not about Jack Abramoff. He's just the example of what happens when you take it as far as it can go in terms of how toxic it can become and how the evil of what happens when money determines what goes on in our political system. Abramoff is reflective of it. It goes all through this administration. It goes all through the other administrations. Who's in the White House doesn't matter ultimately. It's the Congress of the U.S. and they're no longer responsive to the people. They're responsive to money.
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by BooMan, Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 09:06:34 AM EDT
[front-paged at Booman Tribune]Carl Bernstein makes a case for rigorous Congressional investigations in the latest issue of Vanity Fair.
...a national imperative: to learn what this president and his vice president knew and when they knew it; to determine what the Bush administration has done under the guise of national security; and to find out who did what, whether legal or illegal, unconstitutional or merely under the wire, in ignorance or incompetence or with good reason, while the administration barricaded itself behind the most Draconian secrecy and disingenuous information policies of the modern presidential era.
Typcially, for Bernstein, he gets right to the point. What is the single biggest crime of the Bush administration?
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