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Politics : Inhalin' with Palin !! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (78)	9/12/2008 5:06:11 PM
From: Arthur Radley	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358

IJ, my previous post was harsh, but just be forewarned, the next time you insist that I’m ignorant, just know that I have a quiver full of arrows. Choose if you like to make mockery of historians, by merely casting aside the sordid history that you have to wade through to get your dogma forced on others. Your favorite defense is “now”, just trust me “now”---I’ve got it right, now! History doesn't count! Who cares about Teapot Dome, it is now that one should look at how oil companies are treating our citizens so well....look at all the oil that we are getting from Iraq! What difference did it make that big oil elected previous administrations...look at now! When the onus is placed on your shoulders to defend your dogma, you become an obscurant and ignore the question, when lost in the fray of defending your position. Two examples are the recent comments about what Palin said about the bailouts of Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae. How easy it was for me to dig your head out of the sand by using the words of the ultra-conservative Cato Group on that issue. Score one for my ignorance on that subject! But the classic example was last year when there was the heated discussion about protecting our rights of privacy, privacy that is being disrated right before our eyes by George W. Bush and his former lackeys, Alberto Gonzalez and Monica Goodling. Do you remember attempting to make me the ignorant unyielding one on that subject…do you recall how you maligned me with the Utopian conservative response that I was un-American and that you had no problem with the government listening in on “your” telephone conversations because you the true American had nothing to hide from the government. Do you remember this, IJ! Me being unreasonable in not wanting to give up my privacy to the government! Does this subject, and your reaction come to mind? Better yet, did the question that I posed to you, a question that caused you to become as silent as a sphinx, did it shake to the very roots the hypocrisy that you dish out to those like me that thinks our Constitution should apply equally and without partiality to ones race, color, or creed -- you know blind justice for all! Let me remind you of the question that I posed to you…the lawyer! I asked you if you would mind telling every potential client and the clients that your currently have, that you in your law practice had no issues with the Federal government listening in on your telephone, direct conversation, mail, e-mail or for that matter any and all subjects and matters presented to you by a client. IJ, at this point do you remember the sudden silence on your part…silence that maybe was promulgated by me, the un-American that thought your clients deserved a better lawyer, and one that wouldn’t hesitate to protect their rights to private client-lawyer relationships. Did you skip that class, IJ? I thought that topic was covered in 101? But while on this lawyer versus stupid historian jaunt, let me reiterate that your “now” defense on justifying the ignorance of history has developed engine problems...it doesn't fly, IJ! Let me share with you the Holy Grail for lawyers. The Prior Inconsistent Statement….excuse me! I mean -- ”Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”. In McCain vernacular, as to the meaning of this ‘falsus’ issue and what has been his campaign issue that he deems the most important issue for our nation, you and McCain should understand…”You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!”…so please, full speed ahead by putting lipstick on the history of pigs.