No Place To Hide

Convinced
President Obama has been re-elected convincingly. (NYT, 11/12/2012)

Like the old saying goes: History is written by the winner. (Obama = 51%)


Monday Monday
Two weeks. Monday was the 14th day since Hurricane Sandy upended lives on the Eastern Seaboard, the longest two weeks of many people’s lives. Plastic bottles. Warming buses. Charging stations. These are just a few of the signposts in a changed world. Help is coming, the people are told, but some have lost the desire to trust. (NYT, 11/12/2012)

It is Liberal history that George Bush was responsible for Hurricane Katrina. If he did not bring it on with his policies (which he might have) then he certainly botched the recovery effort. Now two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, storm victims are still suffering. So we will paraphrase comedian Chris Rock and state: "Barack Obama does not care about white people."


Pleas
Mr. Jackson's lawyers have been discussing a possible plea with the Justice Department for many weeks, according to several people involved in the case. Mr. Jackson's lawyers had sought assurances the government wouldn't file an indictment before the Nov. 6 election, in which Mr. Jackson easily won another House term. The government refused to make such a promise, but no charges were filed before the election. (WSJ, 11/12/2012)

Yet another story about the possible indictment of Jesse Jackson Jr. What, you hadn't heard?


The Thing
This thing with sex, this American obsession and its concurrent hypocrisy, has gone far enough. We went through a disgraceful attempt at a presidential coup with Bill Clinton, who was accused of lying about sex — imagine! — but survived to become a widely admired elder statesmen. (Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 11/12/2012)

Liberals like Cohen always think that Americans should be more like the French. Vive l'difference! (And by the way, Dick, Clinton was not just "accused" of lying about sex. He LIED about sex. That he undertook with an employee. Who was his daughter's age. Widely admired, indeed.)