Prior to the debarkle you mentioned some parents were comparing Oprah’s school to Colditz or an inflexible prison and its staff, wardens. The Mother Theresa was not a good person. She was a zealot. Likewise Oprah is not well meaning or good intentioned, she is a lay preacher lacking the skills of someone like Dr Phil.

I think that Oprah should forget the black thing and side with Mrs Clinton to make the mean team. I am reminded of Jefferson in one of his quotes where he talked of Priests aiding and abetting [people of power] to support their own vices.

If we look at that. Heroin use has been popular in the British aristocracy, yet they speak out vehemently against [hard] drugs. The Beligian royal family had members who had been priviledged guests at underage sex shows, yet they are one of the louder voices against paedophilia. There have been numerous influencial Audstralians caught drunk driving and not prosecuted. Yet they all speak of drunk drivers deserving only of hard jail time. I guess that is what Jefferson was talking about. I could go on….and on.

Larry, given the choice of Obama or Clinton, I would endorse Obama with a 1000 kisses. However, we are in agreement that he is a slimeball toerag, and unfortunately, sad to say…..PERFECT PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL.

i don’t recall you ever posting before…who are you? introduce yourself, if you care to.

how do you know about this? it was, iirc, about 21 years ago or so. i was on active duty at the time.

“Obama Called Out Ted Kennedy: ‘You’re Getting A Little Old…Get Some Spine’“

Got a Bridge in Brooklyn to Sell You

Obama flack: “No candidate in this race has undergone more investigations and examinations than Barack Obama has.”

–David Kurtz
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Then, from Josh Marshall himself:

You’re Kidding Me, Right?

I really hope the Obama camp is kidding when they say Barack is the most scrutinized candidate in the race. If they’re not, they’re living in a fantasy world that makes me question whether they’re up to the rigors of a national campaign.

Let me be clear: there’s legitimate scrutiny of legislative records, policy positions, personal finances, history of decisions made in tough, pressure-filled situations (the only really legitimate meaning of character), etc. There’s been some of that and should probably be more.

Then there’s the collective assault that constitutes modern press ‘scrutiny’, especially for a Democrat who generally has to deal with the tag team of the national political press and the regrettably much more able and ruthless GOP oppo research cadre, which has an established feeding operation mainlined to most national political reporters.

It ain’t fair; it ain’t right; but it’s the reality. And if he thinks he’s already gotten that, well … what’s he been smoking?

–Josh Marshall

Protocol is defined as the way things had been done until they are done a different way and then that becomes protocol for a while.

“Legitimate Bad Guy” ( is that like jumbo shrimp or authorized freedom ?) ok so who is an illegitimate bad guy? How does one legitimize a bad guy? Get him elected of course?

Closure for Irgun (or was it Stern gang??) terror is easy to achieve, at least on paper:
Begin and Shamir’s memory are dragged into mud, immense reparations are paid to the Palestinians who are allowed to return to the lands stolen from them over the past 60+ years. The “zionist dream” of “eretz israel” is limited to a 100 square kilometer of Negev desert where zionists are allowed again to “make the desert bloom” as one great myth has it.
See, closure absolute. On paper. Or blogs…