Sunday, March 16, 2008
Good analysis here
Heartening that this smart guy says Obama is more likely to get the nomination and less likely to get win in November than Hillary. Suits me fine. Still, this must've been written before Jeremiah the Bullfrog made two hours of primetime on CNN yesterday.
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Bohhrriiingg! I coulda said all that, for $0. Why is this guy paid for blowing smoke?
Here is something more interesting, on the Spitzer story. Says Dershowitz: “We are talking about a man who is a multi-millionaire with numerous investments and purchases. It’s simply none of the federal government’s business that a man may have been moving his own money around in order to keep his wife in the dark about his private sexual peccadilloes.” So how come the Feds got on Spitz's case? I smell a big fat rat.
It has since been established that both North Fork and HSBC [the banks that reported Spitzer to the Feds] were on the receiving end of Spitzer investigations in his days as attorney-general. In 2003 North Fork was obliged to refund $20,000 to dozens of home-owners after Spitzer claimed that the bank had been charging illegal fees. Hmmm....
Profound analysis, JJ.
I think this Philly guy is good AI. No, I don't think you would have argued as he does. You're very rarely about what is and very often about what (you think) should be.
Good on similars is Kaus, who forgot to supply a link to his Wright comments today so hit this and scroll one post up. Follow the links inside too. Interesting MSM bias he alleges.
As to Sphinctzer and Dershbag, so what? You get caught, you get caught. So? The banks hated him so they obeyed the law (his law) gleefully in reporting his suspicious transactions. So? What goes around comes around, and if you poke me hard enough, you can be goddamned sure that when I get up one on you, you're getting a kick in the face.
Serves the bastard right. If he wanted to go a-whoring, he could have kept his tracks a lot better covered. He's the gov, for chrissakes! Kristin could've gone public and that would've been that. A political opponent before said he had a weakness for the simple fuck. He was right.
The abuses of selective enforcement is what I read about somewhere. Was it this Dersh? Good general principle. Better general principle: Watch your back and adapt to the situation.
Here's the other dersh piece I was talking about. Look, the guy got OJ off. Can we just leave him for dead?
I don't think we disagree in any way profoundly on the Spitzer story -- is just a matter of shades and emphasis. At any rate, I'm still fascinated by this story -- it has layers upon layers of meaning in it. I think it's the best sex-and-politics scandal since Monica -- Vitter (the guy Pepe keeps bringing up was booorrrhhing) and Craig was sort of OK, but the story had no legs (I mean, what else can you say except that he had a wide stance on the loo?) So, I'm not prepared to let go -- this is simply too juicy. Hah!
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