Reply #13: I think they are either cowards or knaves... [View All]

no one gets to a leadership position by being a fool (unless they are a puppet like Ray-gun or W).

The Clintons are way, way too close to the Iran-Contra operation out of Mena, Arkansas to be naive. And, when the gloves came off at impeachment time, Bill had a whole bag full of blackmail material (Bob Livingston resigned the day he became House Speaker because his affairs became known). So, they are not cowards either. They play hardball.

Obama seems like a sheep-dipped conservative. He constantly pops off with rightwing positions: thinks Reagan was great, against universal health, anti-gay, constantly introducing religion. The Company was very experienced at creating "legends" for double agents. Its much easier to create deniability for a politician than cover for a secret agent. I don't trust him at all. His "arrival" on the national scene from nowhere is way too suspicious for me. The way the media don't treat him like your standard Dem (i.e., trash him) is remarkable (in a negative way).

Lieberman is a sheep-dipped reactionary who has dropped all pretense and come out as a warmongering Republican. But, he was intimately involved with the DLC. That says all I need to know about the DLC. It was and is a "front" operation for the Deep Political operatives in the Democratic Party.

Edwards, I still can't figure. He was gung ho war. Now he's not. He was Kerry's running mate. Now Kerry endorses Obama. You don't get to be VP candidate without seeing the Deep Political system. My question is: is his conversion genuine or is this just another "feint within a feint"? That is, Obama vs Hillary is a great way to have a psuedo-contest. The system wins whoever wins, and it pushes everyone else off the front page. So, is Edwards just insurance in case the HRC/BO charade is too obvious to sell? Or insurance in case the (not completely under control) fight between HRC and BO does so much damage that the system needs another candidate?

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Deep Politics means that "everything is interesting", but nothing is what it seems. Way too easy to go into full-blown CT.

I'd rather deal with exposing the rogue CIA, the dirty bankers, etc. Trying to finger corrupt candidates is way too tricky and too easy to spin away.

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That's a bit of what I think.

arendt