Forced Error

North Carolina
But with Republicans controlling all branches of the state government for the first time in more than a century, the legislature pushed through a wide range of conservative change. The Republicans not only cut taxes and business regulations, as many had expected, but also allowed stricter regulations on abortion clinics, ended teacher tenure, blocked the expansion of Medicaid, cut unemployment benefits, removed obstacles to the death penalty, allowed concealed guns in bars and restaurants, and mandated the teaching of cursive writing. (NYT, 8/13/2013)

Vermont
But with Progressives controlling all branches of state government, the legislature pushed through a wide range of Liberal change. Progressives raised taxes, decriminalized marijuana, put the state on a path toward single payer healthcare, legalized assisted suicide and enacted draconian energy policies. (RedStateVT.blogspot.com, 8/14/2013)


Echoes
Soon after the 10th anniversary of the foundation bearing his name, Bill Clinton met with a small group of aides and two lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Two weeks of interviews with Clinton Foundation executives and former employees had led the lawyers to some unsettling conclusions.

The review echoed criticism of Mr. Clinton’s early years in the White House: For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in. (NYT, 8/13/2013)

Whitewater. Just saying.....


Authenticity
To make a second impression, Snowden would need to come home, make his case and face his accusers. It would mean risking a lengthy jail term, but also trusting the fair-mindedness of the American people, who, I believe, will not allow an authentic whistle-blower to be unfairly punished. (Thomas L. Friedman, NYT, 8/13/2013)

And so we have the Liberal viewpoint: Snowden is an "authentic" whistle-blower. Even Obama would not cop to that.