Author Topic: Happy 4th Everybody!  (Read 4991 times)

Offline Mike

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Re: Happy 4th Everybody!
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2011, 04:55:27 PM »
If the Casey Anthony trial took over the media, it's because the media decided to sensationalise the trial instead of exposing the abject failure of their Democrat friends in Washington; how else could all of the "bad" stuff Bush did get expanded, and every crisis in American life become an opportunity for further expansion of government/union power and reach, or fail to even bring down a budget in over two years? 

And yet the Anthony trial leads?  The NY Times, the so-called "paper of record", runs ten times (48-5) as many stories about Anthony as they do about the illegal behaviour of the Democrats (vis. no budget) and they claim they aren't in bed with the Dems?

To find anything to compare the arrogance of the White House and Senate, twisting law, tradition, and bond with unthinkable frequency, you can't use American history - you need to use post-War II Soviet intransigence in eastern Europe or Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution to draw a parallel.  Even Wilson's abuses of power will not approximate the changes that future generations of Americans will need to endure, long abfter Obama's gone.

And the media follows every faccial expression of any player in the Anthiony trial.  Shame on the press, shame on the circus.

You might not have to look that far back. Remember what happened to Argentina, only 10 years ago?
I believe the US is headed down the exact same path.
And if I am right, then standby for a lot of collapse and crime in the future...
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Re: Happy 4th Everybody!
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2011, 05:05:05 PM »
Well, Mike, if nothing else America is resiliant: she's weathered worse (Wilson, Carter) and somehow survives.  Perhaps that speaks to the nature of Americans, rather than the checks and balances of the political system.
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