How could the White House be classy when the Clintons were turning it into Motel 1600 for fund-raising, when Bill Clinton was using it for trysts with an intern and when he plunked a seven-seat hot tub with two Moto-Massager jets on the lawn?
How could the White House be inspiring when W. and Cheney were inside making torture and domestic spying legal, fooling Americans by cooking up warped evidence for war and scheming how to further enrich their buddies in the oil and gas industry?
How could the Lincoln Memorial — “With malice toward none; with charity for all” — be as moving if the black neighborhoods of a charming American city were left to drown while the president mountain-biked?
How can the National Archives, home of the Constitution, be as momentous if the president and vice president spend their days redacting the Constitution?
Good ole Glenn Greenwald does a much more thorough job on deconstructing the lunancy that poses as balanced journalism, but I felt compelled to post the text here. I don't understand how one could argue oral sex is even remotely congruent to running roughshod over the Constitution. But, of course, I don't understand this crap either.
I have been driving from Madison to Indianapolis this evening, so I must have missed the fact that Rahm Emanuel has accepted the chief of staff position in the Obama administration. I don't know if he really thought about it much, but I think this is a fairly solid choice. Rahm isn't going to shake up the world, but he does know enough of the inside baseball to give a good solid nudge to the process when need be. He is in many ways the prototypical fixer... which is what any CoS worth their salt is at the core.
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