Hey morans! You've got questions about how a black man could get in the White House? Think there's some kind of coverup, some kind of conspiracy? Think he couldn't possibly be a genuine real born American?
Tell you what, you mouth-breathing, FOX watching, Trump-worshiping, no-neck paranoid yahoos. I'll be happy to let you indulge your little fantasies and muttering in the shadows as you look sideways at anybody stupid enough to try to convince you with facts when you'd rather go with your guts. (Lot of guts to go on, sure play to your strengths. Such as they are.)
Just one thing first. Park your little zombie 'scandal' back where the sun don't shine, the place it got pulled out of in the first place, take a number, and get in line. There are a LOT of questions you and our celebrity-obsessed idiot media chattering class could better spend your time working through first. And I'm not talking about ACORN or George Soros or Vincent Foster, or Whitewater, or Travelgate.
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Got your number for your questions about birth certificates? It's going to be a long wait in line. Let's start with the Mother of all Charlie Foxtrots, George W. Bush and work back from there. There's LOTS of questions to be asked.
• How in hell could it take days for the man to realize there's some kind of problem in New Orleans - especially after video tape showed him getting fully briefed on what would happen if a major hurricane hit the city? Why did the Commander in Chief leave the Navy sitting off shore without orders to assist for days? Why did it take a former Vice-President working on his own to break a critical log-jam at the airport to start getting people out for medical help?
• How in blazes did billions of dollars disappear without a trace while failing to rebuild Iraq - and why has no one ever answered for that?
• What DID Scooter Libby actually perjure himself over - and who was he protecting? (Like we don't know...)
• How did W's administration send top officials to Congress over and over again to lie - and get caught lying - without any of them ever getting cited for contempt of Congress*? (* An odd concept I will concede, since it seems to be the default state for most Americans and not without reason.)
• How did George Tenant get a Presidential Medal of Freedom when the CIA was A) blamed for NOT finding weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq invasion and then B) blamed FOR claiming there were WMDs all over the place after the invasion didn't find any?
• How is it a Pentagon headed by a control freak was unable to 'recognize' things were going really wrong in the prisons it was running, and no one in the higher command levels seemed to have the least idea - officially - that it was happening. Just like no one wanted to take any responsibility for secret renditions perpetrated by the country that once inspired things like the Nuremburg Trials and the Geneva Conventions - or will talk about what's happening today. Again - have there been any consequences for anyone save the victims?
• And can you tell me again why we invaded Iraq, when A) Al Qaida was NOT there at the time, B) Hussein was being contained by sanctions and the No Fly zone, C) UN Weapons Inspectors could find NO WMDs, and D) IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911!!!!!! Bonus question: why has no one been impeached, censured, indicted or convicted (at the top levels) for all of the crimes committed in the runup to, during, and after the invasion of Iraq?
• For that matter, why was impeachment not even considered when the worst terror attack on America since Pearl Harbor came off without any action from the White House despite repeated warnings that something was about to happen? And that they tried to deny being warned? Why is the only person to apologize one of the few who did his best to get the warnings taken seriously?
• And if anyone still thinks America couldn't have done better in 2001 and didn't have any indication that maybe the man the Supreme Court put in the White House was going to be a problem, do you think it might have made a difference if anyone had actually followed up on how A) a punk kid with mediocre grades and allegations of drug and alcohol abuse got a prime pilot slot in the Texas Air National Guard at a time when it would keep his ass from getting sent to Vietnam, B) he was able to walk away from it when he got bored and never faced a court martial, C) repeatedly lied about what happened, and D) has lingering questions about the destruction of records about his 'service'? Or why a major TV network suddenly trashed one of its stars when he started really poking into all this?
Sure you're saying - just another case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. No way could any of the above even approach the seriousness of a secret muslim Kenyan socialist illegally occupying the White House - as long as you're willing to ignore the concrete evidence connected with all of the above. But no matter - let's hit on a few more lingering questions to which it would be nice to have answers.
• George H.W. Bush - what exactly did he cover up for Ronald Reagan while he was running errands as Vice President - and that little thing called Iran - Contra was going on? And what did he bury as deeply as he could when he used his powers as president on the way out of office to pardon some old friends?
Ronald Wilson Reagan; more than a few questions here. Shall we hit a few highlights?
• Again, Iran - Contra. What did he know - and did he know he knew it? And what does it say about Republican attitudes towards the rule of law, democracy, and the power of the presidency? Is Obama anything like so ... ambitious?
• How did a man who raised taxes 7 out of 8 years in office, one who created giant deficits (by the standards of pre W days), and who negotiated with the country's greatest enemy - the evil empire - manage to end up today being revered as the Paragon of All Conservatives, and a model of fiscal prudence?
• If you really care about conspiracy theories, how about the originalOctober Surprise? Is it really that hard to believe, given all that came out during Iran - Contra, that there's more than a little reason to believe Reagan's people had already established a working relationship with the Ayatollahs.... How come we've never gotten to the bottom of that one?
• While we're at it, here's a hot list of Reagan era scandals. Anyone think there's no questions left to be asked about these?
Let's not forget everyone's favorite Dirty Trickster, a real Blast from the Past, Mr. "I am not a crook!" Richard M. Nixon and the inimitable Spiro Agnew.
To go into all of the questions still surrounding Nixon and his legacy would take several diaries at least. (It's worth noting by today's Republican standards, Richard Nixon was a dangerous liberal!) While Watergate still has many unanswered questions, let's not forget Henry Kissinger, or things like Chile, secret wars in Asia, and more.
Okay, here's one that may or may not be tagged with any particular parties or individuals. Remember James Earl Ray? He's the man who pled guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King in 1968 - but later recanted. There's still questions about Ray.
• How DID a poorly educated, small time crook get enough money and several false passports to escape to Europe after the shooting? Was he a 'lone wolf' or did he happen to be in the right place at the right time for people unhappy that King was starting to become active in the labor movement in support of unions? And just to add a little crazy to the mix, is there any connection between Ray's use of Eric Starvo Galt as an alias, and ... John Galt?
One more, and this is a META Question:
• How is it, looking at all of the above with the possible exception of the last, that so many of the same names keeping popping up in connection with these questions? (IE: like these guys.) Is it conspiracy? Organized crime? Institutional corruption and stupidity on the part of the voting public? God's punishment? American exceptionalism?
Or is it something as simple as failure to get real answers, no matter how painful, and learn from them?
Get back to me when you've got something real, and maybe then we can spend a little time on this whole birther thing, okay?