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2013-05-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2013-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yet this above many administration is quite cold to the Troops and their Families. What was said today is there is an air of Coercion around the whole thing.

Not a fun way to live.., at all. That makes me more un-easy. But again, Bill Clinton's Lawyer....

Posted by newc 2013-05-09 01:52|| 2013-05-09 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The Clinton's entire professional life has been beset with scandal, yet they enjoy the adoration of a fawning public. Certainly says a great deal about the public. A pox on both their houses and anyone closely associated.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-09 02:49|| 2013-05-09 02:49|| Front Page Top

#3 It's like a cat , scraping and scraping on a tile bathroom floor, no matter how hard you scrape, the mess is still there, cover ups, don't work.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-09 08:06|| 2013-05-09 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Bill Clinton may have been impeached over his scandal but it didn't seem to hurt him as much as it did the House. Reagan wasn't hurt much by Iran-Contra - perhaps because North so faithfully fell on his sword. Nothing would save Nixon, though his offenses were less than either Reagan's or Obama-Clinton's. In the end nothing will happen over Benghazi.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-09 09:11|| 2013-05-09 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 You would be hard pressed to find any mention of it over at ABC News - I've tried. Equivalent of 'half column - Page F-47'.
I expect all the other main news media (save FOX) are giving it the same treatment. CNN does mention it in a minor story.
In contrast - look at the Daily coverage for 18 full months a non-story like Abu Graibe received from the networks.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-05-09 10:17|| 2013-05-09 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 ABC News? I got stuck watching them last night. Their lead story was that girl who murdered her boyfriend and they went on and on with that for 10 or 15 minutes. Then they did a minute or even less on Benghazi. They did one more store and then they finished up with Vanessa and Serena Williams, tennis players, and their dad who's such a great guy. You talk about your squirrels...

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-05-09 16:05|| 2013-05-09 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Beginning of the end? I think not.

While I loathe the MSM running air cover for the regime, that isn't even the real problem.

You see, Mr Morris, the MSM could run this like they did Abu Graib and it wouldn't make any difference.

Those of us with center/right political sensibilities who are in the private sector or active military don't need to be told that this president and his political party are bereft of honesty, honor, competence, and a legitimate foreign policy.

However, the left, the LIV's, and anyone receiving a magic government check (to include not only welfare recipients but essentially all nonmilitary government employees, nearly all public pensioners, and many if not most SS recipients as well) DO NOT care and never will, WILL NOT change their political views despite anything they see on TV or in print, nor is there anything that can change that.

Have you all forgotten the last election so quickly? The Obama coalition will vote for whomever will have the greatest chance of defending the uninterrupted delivery of the magic government checks. That is and will be for the foreseeable future the Democrata, so that is how they will vote regardless of what happens in the world..

There is literally NO limit to the evils that Obama could do, no level of lying or malfeasance - even if the MSM reported it 24/7 for a year - that would get them to vote for ANY Republican at ANY level of government, because the fear of losing the guaranteed government funding trumps all.

I mean that literally. No event will change their voting habits. Obama or Hillary could be caught on video burning a bus full of third graders, laughing and saying they were going to do it once a week for the next four years, and MSNBC, NPR, PBS, CNN, and the rest of the alphabet networks could broadcast it every hour on the hour, and these people will still pull the "D" lever in 2016. Every professor, every bureaucrat or office worker or administrator, every public school teacher, every public works employees, every regulator, every rent-seeker, the whole lot of them. They are beyond convincing and beyond redemption. They would rather see the atrocities and watch the country go into ruin than give up one cent of government income,

While you are all concentrating on the partisan shilling by the MSM - something which I freely admit is a problem - you are missing a much greater and more deadly issue. The demand side, if you will. There are two reasons the MSM does the partisan thing. One is, of course, that they are true believers and propagandists instead of journalists. The other is that they are meeting a fervently willing market demand. More than 20% of the work force is now nonmilitary public sector and outside of a couple of percent of them they will NEVER vote of or anyone who has even the remotest chance of jeopardizing their precious, precious magic government income stream. I should be no surprise that they will choose information streams which edit out anything that might challenge the party of the paycheck from staying in power.

If NPR started to report on all the failures of this regime with the same fervor they applied to Bush, the bulk of their audience would simply turn NPR off, like a kid sticking fingers in his ear and shouting "La, la, la, I can't hear you!" You cannot reach these people, period. Stop wishing it will happen.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-05-09 16:09|| 2013-05-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks, no mo, I needed cheering up.

So we just grin and bear it? Or move to Texas? North Dakota has a lot of oil...

Posted by Bobby 2013-05-09 17:18|| 2013-05-09 17:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Yer welcome in Texas...

Posted by Skidmark 2013-05-09 17:29|| 2013-05-09 17:29|| Front Page Top

#10 I fear no mo uro is correct. It will only change when the money runs out, and likely with much violence - from one side or the other. Keep yer powder dry...

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-09 19:46|| 2013-05-09 19:46|| Front Page Top

#11 If you're a liberal, Democrat or a progressive (but I repeat myself) YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE! Keep moving.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-05-09 20:02|| 2013-05-09 20:02|| Front Page Top

#12 I think no mo uro is only partly correct. They will all stand by him at election time but if blood is in the water and they think it might cost them the next election they'll turn on him. I suspect a bloodbath in 2014 will start that ball rolling Until then its all battlefield prep for both sides.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-05-09 20:53|| 2013-05-09 20:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Bobby-

All I'm saying is that whatever path that may exist out of the straits we are in is not going to include turning those parts of the population I mentioned.

Doesn't mean there's no way out.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-05-09 21:44|| 2013-05-09 21:44|| Front Page Top

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