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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (19567)	12/19/2007 7:15:07 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

The newest rumor in the John Edwards Love Child Scandal mill: the National Enquirer, illusionists or temporary moralists? Yesterday the incendiary rag had published a story on its website, "John Edwards Love Child Scandal!" along with the blurb, "Woman linked to candidate PREGNANT & IN HIDING." Bloggers took the Enquirer story and ran with it if only to write about various scenarios if the rumor were true or false and if the Clintons were behind the story. From Politico: What the tabloid's readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary. The telenovella style melodrama flew across the net and escalated when the link to the Edwards story at the Enquirer disappeared. One blogger called those who were covering the rumor gistfest, morons, that the story had disappeared and therefore was baseless. True, for several hours the story had disappeared from the cyberpages of the Enquirer. Had the Enquirer made the realization that their story about Edwards was untrue and did the honorable thing and removed it before more damage could be done? Inquiring minds wanted to know until several hours later when, in illusionist fashion, the story reappeared! Was the Enquirer toying with everyone? First you see it, now you don't? The enigma of the disappearing John Edwards Enquirer story came to an end this morning when the thud of millions of Enquirers hitting backstreet newstands resounded across the country; the brightly colored headline "John Edwards' Love Child Scandal" splayed across the page. The story had now reached the masses. Source - National Enquirer

To: American Spirit who wrote (19567)	12/19/2007 10:04:25 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

in 1938 or so there was nothing wrong with communism. If you ignore all the dead bodies in the Soviet Union. Here is a snippet from wikipedia on Stalin - chosen just to highlight your historical ignorance: Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, he prevailed in a power struggle over Leon Trotsky, who was expelled from the Communist Party and deported from the Soviet Union. In the 1930s Stalin initiated a Purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which has become known as the Great Purge, an unprecedented campaign of political repression, persecution and executions that reached its peak in 1937. The above by no means implies that Stalin was the root of all evil in communism. Lenin himself killed millions by mass executions, death camps, and state-caused famine. Under Lenin famine was deliberately started in 1921-22 to starve the peasants into submission, killing millions. markhumphrys.com The "dictatorship of the proletariat" idea called out for a Lenin/Stalin type to rise and that idea goes back to Marx and Engels.