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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)77. Reaching down to this toady to attack Dems?
Geeze, we knew he was a walking disaster area in Texas, eviscerating social services for his buddies, corrupt from the get-go. Halliburtion and Kellogg were already screwing things up for years their with their construction projects, but you know, they got first dibs on 'reconstructing' Iraq. Mainly to their own pockets.
From Jeb's coordinated, racist attack on the citizens of Florida, see where Greg Palast detailed it:
http://www.documentary-film.net/search/video-listings.php?e=118
And further proof it was racist:
Voters Barred from Voting. In this category we find a combination of incompetence and trickery that stops voters from pulling the lever in the first place. Theres the purge of "felon" voters that continues to eliminate thousands whose only crime is VWB - Voting While Black. It includes subtle games like eliminating polling stations in selected districts, creating impossible lines. No one can pretend to calculate a hard number for all votes lost this way any more than you can find every bullet fragment in a mutilated body. But its a safe bet that the numbers reach into the hundreds of thousands of voters locked out of the voting booth.
http://www.gregpalast.com/recipe-for-a-cooked-election/
And the Brooks Brothers' Riot:
Included in the list pictured there, and all illegal by federal and sent there by Tom Delay to stop the lawful process of the election:
1. Tom PYLE, office of House Majority Whip Tom DELAY (R-TX)
2. Garry MALPHRUS, Majority Chief counsel
3. Rory COOPER, staff member, Natl Republican Congressional Committee
4. Kevin SMITH, former House Republican Conference Analyst
5. Steven BRODY, Former Aide to Sen. Fred D. THOMPSON (R-TN)
6. Matt SCHLAPP, BUSH Campaign Staff, Austin
7. Roger MORSE, Aide to Rep. Van HILLARY (R-TN)
8. Duane GIBSON, Aide to Chairman Don YOUNG (R-AK)
9. Chuck ROYAL, Asst to Rep. Jim DeMINT (R-SC)
10. Layna McCONKEY, Former legislative asst to former Rep. Jim Ross LIGHTFOOT (R-IA)
Read the whole thing:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023021978
And to Cheney's secret Energy Summit where he and his oil buddies tlikely planned the Iraq War, to Little Boots talking about 'new product lines introduced in September' as a euphemism for the war they had planned:
http://www.gregpalast.com/how-bush-won-the-war-in-iraq-really/
The remaining media carried one scandal after another daily before September 11th, such as the lethal scandal of their pals at ENRON, a real theft of pensions, jobs and lives of vulnerable people in several states. While they laughed their asses off. Just take a look at:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room
There are so many other examples of bad actions, but some still voted for this man in 2000 and 2004! They were either clueless then, and likely clueless now, or saw a way to profit like certain individuals did for years.
Yuk it up at the 5:00 mark! Hilarious!
So Frum didn't see a problem?
No, of course not. Nothing about it was illegitmate to him. Up there near the seat of power, working for his GOP masters, Frum saw nothing wrong with the Voting Rights Act being violated openly in 2000 when it was still in force, and likely isn't a 'progressive' in any other matter.
His complaints on Republicans are mild rebukes. As if to say to Hitler:
'Look pal, you're doing it wrong. Make sure no one finds out what you did. That's all you gotta do. Now carry on with the program.'
I used to believe DU wouldn't sink so low as to use GOP and RW sources in an attempt to bury a Democrat, or do opposition research to help Republicans, yet offer nothing in the way of a replacement hitter.
Yet they are, and I believe DU will be RF central through 2016. Or course if one hasn't dealt with real harassment and prejudice and have nothing to lose, those other folks don't mean anything. I've come to believe that.
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Long before any of these articles, and as far back as 1991, I was shaking my head at the Clintons.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#11
Excuse me - but you're quoting David fuckin' Frum?!? Former speechwriter for GW Bush?!?
scarletwoman
Apr 2015
#3
The damage control had better start soon. Thus far I don't see anyone posting a legitimate defense.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#6
There is no shame.. I'm almost embarassed for those who fall for this crap. nt
boston bean
Apr 2015
#39
Were I a "journalist" with any kind of access, here's what I'd be doing...
cherokeeprogressive
Apr 2015
#10
I've tried to do that and it never ends up looking good for the fomer Secretary or the Foundation.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#12
They swift boated John Kerry. The Rethugs will swift boat anyone. If Elizabeth Warren runs,
pnwmom
Apr 2015
#17
I'm not disagreeing with you per se, but, how do you know Senator Warren has nothing
DonViejo
Apr 2015
#48
I think she's enough of a threat that any skeletons would have by now been revealed.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#71
LoL. They don't need any truth. They make shit up. As in Clinton Cash,
misterhighwasted
Apr 2015
#50
You won't see me endorsing any republican plan to defeat the democratic party in 2016
workinclasszero
Apr 2015
#28
We are in primary season. Defend your candidate if you can and I'll support others coming in.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#32
No, NYC_SKP. I neither like nor cite people who write paeans to George Walker Bush...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#29
Exactly, and the other Atlantic article wasn't nearly as subjective as Frum's.
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#34
I know, right? Now this right here is the time to learn how to defend this candidate.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#31
"Oh, and, David Frum is a real case, but he manages to have a career. Go figure! "
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#36
She might win Arkansas, West Virginia, and Kentucky if the GOP picks a black dude.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#42
3rd Article is Better & NOT by Frum: "Hillary's Campaign Is Built on a Shaky Foundation"
KoKo
Apr 2015
#43
THX- You can have an International Foundation or you can be Secretary of State. You can't have both.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#44
Put this together with missing emails, private server, WHILE she was SOS and Foundation, well....
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#47
Not trying to, but you would do well to imagine what mainstream Americans will make of it.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#74
I can attest that NYC_SKP has no right wing leanings. That I would swear to...
DemocratSinceBirth
Apr 2015
#65
I see a lot of garbage flying but I don't see any discrediting of her experience and the afvocating
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#61
Y'all need to gear up for more of that. The Atlantic ain't The Blaze. Come'on now, don't shoot me!
NYC_SKP
Apr 2015
#78