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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:03 AM Oct 2015

Q: What is "relentless"? Who has "shenanigans"? Whose culture is one of "corruption"?

A: If you said "The Terminator" to the first question, good guess. If you answered "Leprechauns" to number two, sorry, no. Number three should be a dead giveaway, but if you have not cracked open a newspaper in two decades you might guess "The LAPD?"

Wrong on all accounts. The person who inspires the MSM to verbal excess is none other than Hillary Clinton. As in todays example:

Slowly, relentlessly, Hillary Rodham Clinton has piled up one congressional endorsement after another


From the Associated Press via The LA Times.

Relentlessly, huh? When Obama piled up endorsements in 2008, he did it---what? Sporadically? Light heartedly? Distractedly? Why did he deserve his endorsements? Why does each endorsement that Clinton receive make the sinister music in the background go up a notch?

Once again, the press proves that the old adage is true---it's ok, unless Clinton does it. Clinton does not just acquire Congressional endorsements. She is The Terminator of Congressional endorsements. She stalks those endorsements. She aims her assault rifle at them and shoots them square between their poor, doe like little eyes. Those endorsements don't stand a chance, not with Hillary the Terminator on the trail.



In 2008, you scoffed when I wrote about the tropes from fiction that influence our elections. The Hero. The Mother. The Martyr. But Obama was anointed as The One Who Would Fulfill All Our Hopes--until he didn't. Clinton embraced and supported Obama as The Mother, thwarting the plans of those on the RNC who hoped she would pull a Kennedy 1980. And the press destroyed Edwards once and for all. This time around, it is even weirder. Now we have the Movie Pitch Candidacy (Sanders as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington meets Grapes of Wrath) and the Horror Candidacy (Relentless Clinton, the Terminator) and the Existential Candidacy (If Martin O'Malley is running for president but the press refuses to cover him does that make him a loser or a winner?)

Great primary! Keep up the good work! As in 2008, I will support any one of the three in the general. Just be careful not to fling so much poo in the primary that the chosen candidate will not be able to wash it off come next July.
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Q: What is "relentless"? Who has "shenanigans"? Whose culture is one of "corruption"? (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Oct 2015 OP
edwards destroyed himself via his personal choices nt msongs Oct 2015 #1
No, the press destroyed Edwards, and when he had no hope he turned to a woman. McCamy Taylor Oct 2015 #2
Worst GummyBearz Oct 2015 #4
The press did not destroy Edwards and it was not the affair either, his votes were horrible ... slipslidingaway Oct 2015 #3

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
2. No, the press destroyed Edwards, and when he had no hope he turned to a woman.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:21 AM
Oct 2015

I wrote "John Edwards Body" a full six months before the "scandal". How did I know that he would become a political martyr? Because I can interpret the narrative which the press weaves. He was targeted for martyrdom in January 2007. By the time he cheated, the press had already driven the nails in the coffin of his campaign.

Love how the press has managed to delude itself about what it did to Edwards on the orders of the corporate masters. Under Edwards the Banksters would have done the perp walk---and therefore, he got the full treatment, much as O'Malley is getting now. The press continues to deny what it did to Edwards---and Kerry and Gore---because the employees of the mainstream media are a bunch or talentless little hacks who desperately want to think that they matter (they don't).

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
4. Worst
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:10 AM
Oct 2015

attempt at a self plug ever.

You 'knew' he would cheat on his wife because he lost an election... are you actually John Edwards? Lots of people lose elections, they don't all go bang other people while still married.

slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
3. The press did not destroy Edwards and it was not the affair either, his votes were horrible ...
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:35 AM
Oct 2015

read his history well before the affair ever became public. He had poor judgement, something I mentioned tonight in a couple of posts about other candidates. You need to have decent instincts from the get go, Edwards was sorely lacking. Sure he could speak a good game and admit mistakes later on and he might think that was all well and good, but you need those 'raw' instincts without all the facts sometimes. No leader is ever presented with all the facts before making a decision or taking a position.

Edwards was an opportunist, pure and simple, I could use more choice words but I will not.

Many on DU ran to support Edwards as 'more electable' over Kucinich and did not see him for the scam artist he was, we can only judge politicians by their record.

"And the press destroyed Edwards once and for all."

Edwards destroyed himself with his record long before his affair, if you were paying attention, sorry to bust your fantasy world.



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