Boomerang: The Democrat culture of corruption
My syndicated column today looks at how the Democrat “culture of corruption” boomerang has returned to smack the donkeys right back in the face.
Snort-worthy: Guess what big national event is taking place in Chicago this week? The 30th annual COGEL (Council on Governmental Ethics Laws) Conference.
The wheels on the bus go thump-thump-thump.
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The Democrat culture of corruption
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused Republicans of making “their culture of corruption the norm.” Pelosi touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue. But with the eye-popping pay-for-play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption chickens are coming home to roost.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the breadth and depth of charges against Blagojevich and his Democratic Chief of Staff John Harris “staggering.” That’s an understatement. Anything that breathed was a potential shakedown target. It’s the Chicago way. Democrat Blago’s so dirty he’d hit up a children’s hospital for money. Oh, wait. He’s accused of doing that, too.
Democrat Blago allegedly conspired to use his power to appoint President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat as a bargaining chip for financial payment. He explored trading on that authority for an appointment as Health and Human Services secretary or as an ambassador or for installment in a cushy union position. (He discussed his trading scheme with an unnamed “SEIU (Service Employees International Union) official” and unnamed “various consultants” in Washington.)
According to the criminal complaint released yesterday, he also tried to leverage his influence over the sale of Wrigley Field (owned by Tribune media company) in an attempt to get Chicago Tribune editorial writers who called for his impeachment fired — which illustrates the very perils of media/government entanglements I warned about in my newspaper bailout column last week. His wife, Patricia Blagojevich, was apparently in on the thuggery, too. Taking a break from her first lady duties advocating “on behalf of women and children,” she is heard in taped discussions about the Chicago Tribune/Wrigley Field deal telling a governor’s aide “to hold up that f**king Cubs sh*t. … F**k them.”
Pelosi, champion of women as political cleaner-uppers, was unavailable for comment.
Fitzgerald says President-elect Obama was not implicated in the plethora of charges against Democrats Blago and Harris. The national media went out of their way to absolve him, too. But declaring Team Obama’s hands clean — especially with Blago crony and indicted Obama donor Tony Rezko in the middle of it all — is premature. (And if you’re wondering why I keep putting “Democrat” in front of the accused corruptocrats, it’s because the mainstream newspapers can’t seem to remember to identify their party prominently the way they do when Republicans are nabbed.)
Chicago’s Fox affiliate reports that Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago hometown heavy Rahm Emanuel was the catalyst for the Blago takedown and suggests Rahm-bo tipped off the feds. If so, this raises more questions than it answers about who on the transition team may have talked to Blago and his shakedown artists about what and when. Needless to say, if it were the Republican Bush administration tied to the Blago bust, the White House press corps would be frothing like a pack of Michael Vick’s pit bulls.
Democrats and the media can no longer rest on the old rationalization that Blago is an exception to the “we’re cleaner than thou” rule. 2008 was the year of Democratic Reps. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson, Charlie “Sweetheart Deals” Rangel, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame “Text Me” Kilpatrick. It was the year Democratic Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson got caught stuffing bribes from an FBI informant down her shirt. It was the year 12 Democratic leaders and staffers in Pennsylvania’s state Capitol were stung in a massive corruption scandal involving cash, sex and abuse of public office. And it was the year of multimillion-dollar embezzlement scandals at Democratic satellite offices of ACORN and the SEIU.
The Democrats have met the culture of corruption, and it looks like it ain’t just elephants among the jackasses soiling public office.
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Reader k. e-mails: “How could you leave out Elliot Spitzer from your blog of Democratic scandals in 2008?” Ah, yes! Client Number 9 is in a category all his own.
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Why have the fakes, when you can have the real deal. It’s what is wrong with the RINO Dem lite strategy from the start.
Oh yeah, it’s not even begun yet.
And please, it’s “Democrat” not “Democratic”. I dunno. Pet peeve or something.
Wherever corruption rears its ugly head must be stamped out.
Fitzgerald’s job is go where the leads take him… if that’s all the way to Obie Wan… so be it.
The left has always been corrupt. The problem is that they used the term ‘culture of corruption’ before the right. Why? Because the pols on the right are too much of p*ss*ies to ever stand their ground and get dirty once in a while from mud slinging.
If the right grew some juevos, this would be a bigger issue than the media is allowing it to be.
Let’s be accurate.
It’s “socialist“. Period.
I think Daniel Henninger was on target when he wrote the following piece:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714101083742715.html
I love his finish to the article:
Yes, the democrats are caught today – and probably a republican caught next – and rather than fight party by party about it – it would be better to fight to fix the root cause!
The Democrats have unchecked power on Capitol Hill and access to trillions for “bailouts” and “stimulus.” The only thing standing between them and massive corruption on a scale beyond anything seen in history is their own ethics; and as recent history has demonstrated, they have none.
Is anyone surprised to see the liberal biased Chicago Tribune congratulating itself for keeping a story, one that would have definitely done some damage to BHO’s presidential campaign, under wraps at the request of another liberal, Patrick Fitzgerald? Show of hands please… (Naaaa! What, me? Cynical?)
BTW,how much do you wanna bet Blago shows up at an African-American church this Sunday?
Michelle along with Senator Wilkerson from MA you forgot city councilor Charles “Chuck” Turner as being someone with at big “D” at the end of their name in the corruption scandal.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2008_12_10_%E2%80%98Independent_fact-finder__to_mull_Chuck_Turner_s_fate_on_Council/
Well Nancy – just waiting for your statement. Just be sure to include “The President Elect is not involved” so you can be a uniform Dembo’s & Media outlet party. Has Hollywood started shooting the movie yet. I would wait. Just don’t know the ending yet. Oops. I forgot about artistic license.
Muchas Dittias to all before me and Merry Christmas to all.
So, if Rahm-bo tipped off the feds, unless Blago and Harris plead quilty, he will likely be forced to testify during their trial. Obviously, that sparks lots of questions that might make The One uncomfortable (not that he’s likely to get asked them by the MSM). Here are a few:
Socky – It’ll probably be the Reverend Wright’s church as well.
Gotta get some more street cred.
HAHAAAHHAHAHHAAAA I love it!
b-b-b-but the Rupublicans…
Kennedy(D) murderer
Jon Cary(D) traitor
Murtha(D) traitor
Top those lgm.
If a man will steal a dollar then he’ll steal a million dollars.
As a resident of Illinois I find it “staggering” that anyone would think Blagojevich wouldn’t sell a senate seat. It is well known that Blagojevich has sold contracts and positions since day one. He’s been investigated for it for years. Why would he suddenly develop scruples about selling a senate seat?
Blagojevich is a crooked politician – this is what crooked politicians do. Why would anyone find this in any way surprising?
One thing is for certain, Blago has great hair.
It is clear to me that, to get elected to high office in this nation, you have to have great hair.
The intimidation, bribes, and political arm-twisting have probably been going on for his whole time in office. What we’re hearing about now is just what we were lucky to get down on tape. It’s not like he suddenly “got dishonest” after six years in office.
…I still believe New Jersey is the “Corruption Capital” of the USofA…..if not it is tied with Illinois for first place. Over decades, we’ve more ex-politicians jailed, indited or under investigation than the rest of the country combined I think…..and it is only the tip of the iceberg.
How come corrupt Republicans are considered liars and crooks and corrupt Democrats merely “mis-speak” and make “errors in personal judgement”?
Isn’t it amazing how many people Obama has had to disown?
In another twist of irony Obama demonstrates that he cannot pick friends. Ayers, Dorhn, Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, Blago, etc. I guess he is just naive and gullible.
I guess that he would eventually pal around with the Clintons just proves the point.
It is a good thing “character” doesn’t count in the Democrat party.
I agree. Democrats never had “no corruption”, but in the past decade, Republicans have had more.
Moreover, a NYTimes article today concludes that Obama indirectly was responsible for catching Blagojevich. Obama lobbied the Illinois state legislature to pass an ethics bill over the Governor’s veto. It was the Governor’s reaction to this bill (frantic sleaze before the bill took effect) that tipped off investigators.
Moreover, Republican corruption has had much more serious consequences. For example, Abramoff was able to preserve essentially slave labor conditions on certain Pacific islands. George Bush muddied America’s reputation, and our ability to lead the world, by engaging in torture.
Hey Soap,
I have another one for you-
Gore(D) crazed loon conartist
AHHHHHHHHH, the Idiot has arrived and outdone himself.
Bush engaged in torture?
Hmmmmmmmm……..I reckon some of BroBama’s leftover campaign cash was going to buy his old senate seat for whomever he wanted to succeed him, but Blago was shaking him down for a higher price?
Therefore it was time to ‘out thug’ the thug? DO NOT CROSS BROBAMA….you will pay! Geeesh its Illinois people, where do you think the term “Chicago typewriter” came from?
Cough, cough, PUKE….Brobama had not talked with Blago about his senate successor. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
Sorry, Charlie (lgm), that was Pelosi.
Gosh, this seems so 1992. You know, elect a Dem to the White House, and it focuses attention on the goings on of his home state. And the next thing you know, half the officials of that home state end up indicted. (Except for the Dem president, who skates free.)
And here I thought Arkansas was the Guatemala of the Midwest.
LGM wins if you respond to such blatant drivel, folks; after all, his only purpose here is to instigate and irritate. Just let him float on.
Funny,
how I get severely chastised and roundly criticized, whenever I tell someone I blindly pull the lever on a straight Republican ticket,
isn’t it.
Wish I could agree. Corruption with liberals is always treated much more lightly than with republicans. The press will not give this much attention after the next day or two. The free ride will continue.
Hmmm…world standing. Please cite specific examples of how our standing has declined in the world.
Mario Biaggi (D) Influence Peddling
Dan Rostenkowski (D)
Gerry Studds (D) Pedophile
Barney Frank (D) Operated a prostitution ring.
Here is a list of more scandals.
Ahh, I love the smell of a Democrat inaugural-eve scandal in the morning!
If Obama’s Whitewater ’08 is any indication, the next four years look to be very entertaining.
Oh, good grief. Can you name the specific acts of “torture” that Bush engaged in? Really, take off your tin-foil hat.
Whenever Democrats point their finger at Republicans, there’s usually three pointing right back at them.
A Democrat’s accusations usually are a warning that they, themselves, are the guilty party that is trying to deflect blame and attention to the Republicans.
The Absent a Mind Math Professor won only another chance to see Stretch holding a fish in each hand
laughable. and a lie. we don’t torture people. waterboarding is NOT torture…
but you’ll be singing a different song when Obama oks it…
[sigh]
Oh, the humanity… Oh, the righteous indignation.
[sigh]
Soapbox – Way to spike the ball!
I dont know which is more fun, watching this guy go down, or reading the feeble attempts of the lefties on this site trying to deflect.
Define torture. At what point do you cross the threshold that what you are doing is considered torture? If you are so concerned about it, you should be able t owell-define what it is.
Name one Western nation that has said the U.S. engaged in torture.
The only people who have accused the U.S. of torture has been the Democrat Party and their fellow travelers such as Code Pink.
After five years of war and well over one million soldiers having rotated through Iraq you had one instance of organized prisoner mistreatment, Abu Graib. Who reported it? The U.S. Army. The Army’s response? Leaders up through Brigade command were relieved and all participants were court martialed.
lgm, there are other sources of information on the planet besides to the DNC’s talking points.
Its become so crowded under the bus, Obama is shopping for a Hummer. With big tires.
Great article, Michelle. There is no reason to doubt the unfettered power of Dems in Congress and the White House will lead to more corruption. It always does.
Remember when Obama used all those pics and videos of McCain standing next to Bush? Let’s look forward to Obama getting a taste of that in return.
LGM – The only torture Bush engaged in was staying in office and torturing those with BDS by his continued presence.
If anyone believes that Obama, (who cut his teeth in the corrupt political arena of Chicago, and whose associates incuded Ayers, Dorn, Rezco, Wright, and Pfleger, and who defeated his first political opponent by somehow getting confidential records released)does not have very dirty hands…you would be completely delusional. We know there is MUCH to be learned about our President-elect, and I suspect we will find out things that will curl our hair. He can’t possibly have risen that fast all the way up to POTUS, without payoffs, corruption, and palm greasing. We have known all along how questionable his past was, but for some reason, millions of people chose to ignore the obvious, aided and abetted by the culpable MSM. Can you just imagine what Washington will look like in four years of an Obama administration? Just think how many people KNEW about all the corruption in Chicago and yet it continued for years. How long will it be allowed in DC? Long enought to destroy our country? God help us.
Michelle,
As a Republican NYer, I too am “offended” that you left our boy Elliot out of your article. You can’t let Chicago have *all* the fun!
Gird your loins the next 4 years are gonna be a rough ride! Fun to watch, but rough nevertheless.
I can only pray the ball did a facial!
Of course as we all know, that “culture of corruption is not capable of forging a birth certificate.
Interesting that Michelle is quick to point out “Corruption! Scandal!” with Democrats who are so close to Obama, but yet finds it impossible to fathom the possibility that Obama may not be a natural born citizen…thereby “corrupting” the Constitution and the Republic itself.
Picking and choosing, I see.
Damn, Mister P, you beat me to the punch!
lgm; abramhoff was a Lobbyist, you know the sleazy scum that try every day to bribe our politicians into selling their offices. if you want to hold lawyers and lobbyists to the same code of ethics you hold elected officials, we would have no lawyers or lobbyists. btw; senator dodd, et al, recieving countrywide loans, congressman monahan? of w. virginia amassing hundreds of thousands in a very short time, or hillary clinton turning 10k into 100k in less than a year at the hands of arkansas’ largest employer tyson. or dick gephardt being given a beachfront house, or obama buying a mansion for 300k less than asking price, but rezko paying full boat for the yard, and then selling that to obama for 100k. it’s everywhere, the difference is republicans TRY to force these sleazoids out, where democrats celebrate their sophistication. bill clinton perjures himself, and dems say it’s just about sex, who cares, then they demand the republican senator from washington resign because he was kissing female staffers inappropriately. KISSING, not getting bj’s in the oval office. or gerry studs vs mark foley, one gets a standing ovation after being caught getting bj’s in the pages bathroom, while foley gets caught texting how he would like that and he is forced to resign
Rod Blagojevich’s attempted selling of their soon-to-be-vacated senate seat is merely the tip of the iceberg of the crimes and misdemeanors committed throughout the United States.
I will not make a point out of his party (even as little as it is mentioned by the “news” media), because that does not matter. Our “public servants” throughout our states and federal government are self-serving, greed and power-consumed criminals. The problem is, so many people are “in the take” with them, gladly allowing them to group them as “constituents,” rather than being civic-minded, responsible citizens.
When will we wake up to this? As far as I’m concerned, you can replace party symbols of the donkey and elephant with the hyena and vulture. They are picking the bones of our freedoms and liberties clean, and too many of us are arguing about who’s worse. The lessor of two evils is still EVIL.
The debates going on crack me up… Your POLS are crookeder than my POLS… Nanny, nanny, boo booo… CORRUPTION is CORRUPTION period… Caught and indicted, strip them of all powers, regardless of PARTY… The DEMS seem to have a problem with that last one… Yesterday when this story broke, I started WONDERING… How did sealed DIVORCE RECORDS suddenly become public knowledge… Just a POSER on my end…
Exactly! Obama is as dirty as the rest of the Chicago thugs. We are in big trouble.
Add Chris “Bring Down the Banking System” Dodd to your list
Ancient Chinese proverb…
Wherever Democrats go, corruption follows.
Have you noticed that most of the creeps who get caught are shifty and sleazy looking? That IL Governor for example. Yuk. Most of them have that “look” about them. Obama, on the other hand, is handsome, articulate, and has a smile that lights up a room. So, he has pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes with his talent for talking his way out of any issue and flashing that smile. You mark my words…he is as corrupt as Blago…he just knows how to “play the system” better and has more people in his pocket.
In a way the Republicans are partly responsible for this – because when the democrats went on the attack against them the republicans did nothing to defend themselves!!
I recently read about something called the “Republican Leadership Council” and I was wondering just where the republicans were that supposedly showed any leadership.
Are the democrats more corrupt? You bet!!
But it has to be so over the top like this because the republicans always want to “reach across the aisle”, “show bipartisanship” etc., etc., etc., that they keep getting rolled by the democrats. We can expect a lot more of this until the republican party reaches out to Conservatives.
If it was me, i would subpoena that Blackberry post haste, before Rahmbo takes it from the “O”ne, and throws it into the Potomac! My bet is the FBI won’t have the sack for anything beyond Cockatoo Hairdoo boy.
rogue, Messiah is using a Blackberry for the bug-proof VOIP phone – like the Mumbai terrorists.
I am reminded of the time back in the 1980s when conservative Phil Crane and ultraliberals Barney Frank and Gerry Studds were all caught having flings with staffers. At least our guy did it with a girl!!!
What’s the fuss? A Chicago Democrat is discovered to be corrupt? Why is that newsworthy?
Finding one that isn’t…now there’s a story!
It’s absolutely disgusting how they even put into office a filthy and corrupt potty mouth like Blagojevich. It just shows the class of those in general society.
Yes, I remember when we used to have higher standards for those we vote into office. The moral fabric of our society is unraveling at an alarming pace. I guess that’s what happens when we allow the secularists to have their way and remove God from everything. We live in a sick society and the worst part is, most in society don’t think it is sick! How do you cure a patient who thinks he is healthy?
But alas when Dear Leader, He Who Has Come BroBama replaces all US Attorneys- including U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald-as is his Presidential perogative – I would guess this case either goes away or is so low key we hardly notice.
The FBI and Justice Department are just two more political plums to be used at the bosses discretion and generally Democrat friendly.
We know that “absolute power corrupts”, but when a person with absolute power was corrupt before even getting that absolute power…the corruption will be awesome to behold. Hang on, we are in for a bumpy ride.
Ya gotta laugh. What kind of “tortured” mind could make this link. This will keep me chuckling for the rest of the day.
It never ceases to amaze me how Pravda like the MSM is when it comes to Democrats….all of the names and problems from this year in your post and if WE did not read you 3/4ths of them wouldn’t be know at all.
The MSM and Democrats and Unions a trinity of HELL!
That is a dumb-ass comment and could only come form the brain of a mindless leftist.
Hey Michelle, Just thought I’d drop you a line and let you and your readers know I am running an informal Blago-Demotivation contest!
No actual awards except the enjoyment of lampooning Blaggie, the Dems, and Government corruption in general. Feel free to drop by and add your creativity to the mix!
http://wearyman.blogspot.com/
Democrats who attacked Gov Sarah Palin…..what’s that now, no purity test for Obama?
http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/blagobama/
Hey guys, what kind of news coverage are you getting on this in your local papers?
NOTHING in the Seattle PI!!! That’s a story in itself!
Well, to be fair, there is a mention in the nation/world section that’s dated 12-9.
Guess it’s “old” news to them.
Don’t know. I’ve been ignoring the midstream media for 20+ years.
It is ironic. We waterboard three mass murderers and it “destroys our ability to lead the world.”
While I am sure waterboarding isn’t pleasant I don’t think it rises to the level of torture. But we could ask the Soviets, Chinese, Khmer Rouge, Viet Cong, North Koreans, FARC, Iran and the Taliban if they could clarify the matter.
Why doesn’t the American left care about the scores of millions of innocent people their ideological buddies have tortured and murdered in cold-blood the same way they worry about a few murders we have incarcerated in comparable luxury. Can you say double standard?
Michelle,
Please, do NOT forget to comment on the UNION part in this crime!
Collin
And dp not forget Democrat election fraud.
I wonder if David Gregory or George Steph or Wolf Blitzer or Katie Couric will ask St. Barack the following simple question: “Will you pledge not to fire Patrick Fitzgerald so that he can complete his investigation and prosecution?”
Somehow I doubt Senator Obama will have to answer this question.
Given how the media howled when the Bush Justice Department fired several US Attorneys, I wonder if the liberal media will ask Obama if he intends to leave US Attorneys like Fitzgerald in place so that they can do their jobs.
Somehow I doubt the media will howl if Obama gets rid of guys like Fitzgerald.
The lights came on and the roaches are scattering. Apparently has spoken to, seen or even knows this guy.
Did anyone ever doubt that the hard cynics about Obama were more likely to be vindicated than the glassy-eyed Hope and Change cultists?
CORRECTION
The lights came on and the roaches are scattering. Apparently nobody has spoken to, seen or even knows this guy.
because you have to crack a few eggs to get a new socailist state, comrade!!!
as long as the ends are the greater socialist state…the means are justified…
Don’t loose sight of the underlying fact that our (US Citizens) real problem is that ALL ELECTED CLOWNS in BOTH PARTIES are there for their own benefit,NOT ours! We are back to the old addage: “One party tells the lie, the other swears to it”. So where is the surprise in Dems and Repubs taking turns stealing, lying, screwing up our great country? It’s time for the citizen’s revolution, clean ALL of them out. Start over. Local to Federal.
The media would not even howl if Obama killed a little girl’s pet dog with a baseball bat on the White House lawn.
The media would report that it is actually beneficial for little girls to have puppies bludgeoned before their eyes.
Besides, this was an extremely unpleasant puppy.
With all the eggs they have cracked it is going to be ONE BIG OMELET…
How can you be a Vegan and a socialist?
I just read that Obama’s people just kicked Blago under the bus. They’re going to have to raise the frame on that bus if they intend to throw anyone else under it.
That snobbish, “you’re my subjects and I despise You” look on Obama’s face is so typical of him, and if the media and Americans had paid any attention this jerk would not have been elected dog catcher.
I know that puppy and he was just asking for it…
Boston City Counseler Chuck Turner was arrested in the same federal probe that Dianne Wilkerson got caught in.
Previously, he was best known for claiming that a militarily themed porno movie was evidence that US servicemen were sexually assaulting Iraqi women.
Like a typical AP report, I didn’t include his party in this post.
People need some extra background on him. You might have forgotten his vanilla name but you probably did not forget about THIS from back in May 2004 -
THOSE WERE FROM HIM! … Chuck Turner. He defamed our soldiers with FAKE allegations that were very possibly hatched by and received directly FROM THE ENEMY!!!
(His name is 4th from the bottom.)
Sorry wendy, I didn’t read the thread before posting.
Are you local?
“Mr. President-Elect, you have the right to remain silent. If you give up the right to remain silent, anything you say can, and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you desire an attorney and cannot afford one, an attorney will be obtained for you before questioning. I’m sorry sir, but I’m going to have to put these bracelets on you; its standard procedure. Yes sir, I know they’re tight; watch your head Mr. President-Elect.”
The more the merrier!
fixed
“Mr. President-Elect, as messiah you have the right to say anything you want. If you give up the right and remain silent, we’ll make up something for you and make certain that absolutely nothing is eveer used against you in a court of law. You have the right to lie, cheat and steal. You can have the best attorney that money can buy along with any press apparatchiks that you need to refute any allegations made against you. I’m only sorry that I cannot do even more for you mein messiah.”
It is just mind-boggling that the media was so all over the “trooper-gate” “scandal” before the verdict was even in. Now compare that to this unbelievable corruption! To say that journalism is dead is an understatement. The corpse is rotten and very stinky.
With regard to Eliot Spitzer, his lechery is just the tip of the iceberg. His conduct in public office is where the real scandal lies, only it hasn’t been reported very much, if at all. Once his bedhopping became news, reporters started blurting out, “I always knew he was a schmuck.” If so, why were they silent when he was running for governor?
Axelrod is on TV on NOV 23 basically saying that Obama and Blago communicated about the senate seat etc. Obama says there was no comunication and then Axelrod misspoke?
Are you kidding me. So Axelrod’s nov 23 Fox words are one fabrication made out of whole cloth. Axelrod is a liar, Obama is, who is?
Truly remarkable what is unfolding!
WarEagle82 said (#76):
Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and the rest are not my ideological buddies. Reagan did support Saddam, though.
Reliable reports (photos on Fox) show that Americans have killed in the process of “enhanced interrogation”.
1. Is this moral equivalence?
2. What makes us different from them is that we do not torture.