DISQUS

ETBlogs Soapbox: Another prince of political darkness

  • michael cook · 1 year ago
    Mr. Armerding,
    I have never, even back in the 1990's, been a fan of the Clintons.
    But, please, stop with the hyprbole over the Mark Penn flap.
    Penn's a scumball, as I believe Hillary Clinton is.
    Penn and his firm have been paid nearly ten million dollars by the Hillary campaign for their advice and wisdom.
    Penn and his firm have also been paid a very handsome sum by the Colombian government to advocate before Congress for a trade agreement Hillary Clinton says she opposes.
    It's all BS, just like the war in Iraq.
    Hillary is a hypocrite just like the neo-con Bushies.
    What all this is is an indictment of this country's political class; in Central America we refer to that class as the "oligarchy".
    In time, similar conflicts of interest will come to light about McCain and Obama.
    To me, it all just says modern day political campaigns are little more than tawdry, hypocritical, execises on the part of those who pursue great power.
  • Mike Daly · 1 year ago
    Mr. Cook, what it actually says is the Left wants it both ways - it wants to attack its enemies and endorse its friends FOR DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

    "It's all BS like the war in Iraq." The war in Iraq is about defeating Islamo-Arab imperialism after it had spent four-plus decades waging war against the US. That's not BS, your opinion of it is.
  • michael cook · 1 year ago
    Mr. Daly,
    Iraq was not an "Islamo-Arab" imperialist power that waged a four decades long war against America.

    In fact, in the early and mid 1980's when the Reagan/Bush administration viewed Saddam Hussein as its ally in the fight against Iran, we provided Saddam Saddam with the helicopters and technology he later used to gas the Kurds in northern Iraq.

    Mr. Daly, before you make such sweeping statements about both history and America's foreign policy, you might want to do something as basic as checking the facts.