[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Sea Demon

Uhh, Skybird? That website is a partisan hack website, belonging to some of the most vile dredge of humanity in the USA. They are socialist kooks over there. Anything from that site can be largely discounted as pure trash.

Eeeek!

It amuses me time and again to see how fanatic a reacton you can easily trigger by simply referring to somebody who dares to hold up a mirror in which republicans could see themselves.

Use google and enter "republican scandals". As minimum you get a hint that republicans are not less hesitent to get involved in scandals as democrats they love to poi8nt fingers at with determined stubborness.

I also say that I have the very strong impression the the real big bad stories delivering real substantial damage to America - see the republicans as the creators of such scandals. name a single democratic conspiracy against the Republicans that rival the meaning and importance of Nixon' Watergate. Show me one story since WWII that matches the callibre of Reagan's Irongate. show me single event since WWII where the republicans ever have become so very much the dedicated victim of a democratic intrigue, or where the american public so deliberately had been deceived, and the official foreign policy betrayed, or where administrative powers have been so decisevely beeing abused and laws cut back and/or evaded like under Bush. And I do not even start about the lies and manipulations and intimidations, threatenings and bullyings during the time of preparing the road to war with Iraq.

I currently read a wonderfully controversial book by Mearsheimer and Walt, "The Israel Lobby" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isr...Foreign_Policy ) . the most remarkable thing about it is that the whole system they describe - immediately sprung to life and tried with almost hysteric intensity to bully the authors, to discredit them at all cost, no matter what, and gave living proof for their own existence by rejecting so blind hatefully that they do exist. Ridiculous. Marc Mazower, professor for history at the Columbia university is quoted to have said about the book: "What is striking is less the substance of their argument than the outraged reaction: to all intents and purposes, discussing the US-Israel special relationship still remains taboo in the US media mainstream. [...] Whatever one thinks of the merits of the piece itself, it would seem all but impossible to have a sensible public discussion in the US today about the country’s relationship with Israel." - the underlined last sentence could be said about the constant bashing of "democrat's scandals" and the total rejection that there are least as many scandals on republican's side (and much more dangerous and threatening ones) as well. Those sitting in the glass house, here obviously thow the biggest stones, and early, and often. That is the only reason why Clinton enjoying a blowjob could ever have become such an issue, whereas in principle that is a private issue between him, Lewinski, and Clinton's wife. Compared to that private issue, politicians and cardinals guilty of abusing children and being pedophiles is the far more significant and serious issue. but it never could rival the incredible scandal of clinton and Lewinski. Ha!