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One of the outstanding features of Team Obama's 2008 game is how they so messed with Bill Clinton that he became a liability in South Carolina.
There was nothing coincidental about Trump going after GWB, rather than Jeb himself, just as Dubya was scheduled join him in SC.
What happens next - A full throated endorse of Jeb by Mr. WMD, or a passionate defence of GWB presidency?
The CBS boo-bird audience gave Trump a great opportunity to find out. And he blasted them, including Babs.
Welcome to South Carolina. Ask Bill.
Chutzpah.
NB: SC is an open primary
Bohemianwriter
(978 posts)There seems to be more than one candidate with heavy baggage from the Bush years...
denem
(11,045 posts)that went nuclear: "Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale Ive ever seen.
Not only did this give Obama new opportunities to pin the war on Hillary, Team Obama spun it into Bill saying that an 'African American President in a fairy tale' That was followed by a whispering campaign that Bill Clinton is a racist.
It was some of the dirtiest politics seen by either side in 2008, but in South Carolina it was dynamite.
Trump tellings Republicans, 'GWB lied to our troops' is about audacious as it gets. How does W respond? Revisiting the decision? The Iraq war is more toxic than ever.
It's the same strategy, turning a former President on your own side of politics, radioactive.
I'm sure Trump's advisors know the 2008 primary slugfest off by heart.
And I am working to let some rats out of the bag myself.
I am a veteran. From a different war. But that position alone has gotten me in contact with a mercenary with some highly explosive details NOT described in Sniper Kyle - American Sniper. He has a small role in my works as well. It's a fucking draining piece to write. My journeys, experiences and writing ski ls lands me in the most strangest situations sometimes.
It's a wonderful description of good old American incompetence and arrogance neocon style...
It's kind of a...Fear & Loathing book.
One Chapter is called Sulfate!
W DID lie to the troops! He lied about the whole thing. Call me a "conspiracy theorist". A "conspiracy theorist" is simply one who gets the facts, and cannot ad them together with what tales his Government tells him. The Bush/Cheney cabal has told us tales with more holes in it than a Swiss cheese.
Their lies created Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Sniper Kyle, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and compulsive liars drumming for war on every cable news channel.
Personally, I hope Trump will continue both the 9.11 and Iraq slug fest. Bring on Afghanistan as well. It's the Carlinist in me. A bubble about to burst. And it A volcano about to errupt. will not look good on anyone's record who endorsed that war and still carry no regrets.
One consequence of those lies were "we came, we saw (bombed), (t)he(y) died"...
Right!
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In Europe, some of our most "proud" nationalists calls them wellfare moochers, golddiggers and terrorists. That's why there has been a RW wind across Europe the last few years. And with it, comes neo-liberalism. Goldman Sachs among others.
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
H. L. Mencken