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I was expecting signs of CDS as Bill Clinton’s success took the limelight (NYC tabloids just ignored it), but the Wa Po headline still surprised me a bit
Granted, it came from the Armageddon Man, John Bolton, but it was hardly the only one.
Cannonfire noticed an irony overload smear from no less than CNN. In their article about the rescue of the journalists from North Korea they repeat the bogus accusations of racism
His first major verbal stumble during that campaign came in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary when he told a crowd that then-candidate Obama’s claim to have been an early and consistent opponent of the Iraq war was “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”..
At least the entire contest is given, but the “verbal stumble” qualifier still exists.
Hey, CNN – is the war in Iraq over? Last I checked, June was the blodiest month in 11 months there.
All months passed since Bill Clinton questioned Obama’s opposition to the war. How was it a stumble in 2008, when it’s 2009 and the war still rages on?
I guess, the same way rescuing the journalists from Korea was “unwise”.
And MoDo is counting schadenfreude for Bill
Bill had the additional schadenfreude spritz of knowing that he had usurped three men he’d had fraught relationships with — Bill Richardson, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore (whose media company the women were working for) — by getting the high-profile assignment to rescue the damsels in distress.
I’ll just add this to the irony quotient for today.
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