Welcome to the NFL
It’s the season for hard hits – both in football and politics.
Two political hits, in particular:
- A Washington Post story that John Edwards sold his D.C. mansion for $5.2 million to Paul and Terry Klaassen, “wealthy founders of the nation’s largest chain of assisted-living housing for seniors” who are “currently cooperating with a government inquiry in connection with accounting practices and stock options exercised by them and other company insiders. They are also the focus of legal complaints by some of the same labor unions whose support Edwards has been assiduously courting for his presidential bid.”
- A report, debunked by CNN, that Barack Obama attended a radical Muslim school as a child. The report appeared in Insight magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times. The magazine’s website reported that “associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the
The question, class, is this: Were both hits generated by the Clintonistas, who learned something about personal-foul politics in the 90s? Or did the vast right-wing conspiracy pull one over both the media and the Democrats by engineering the reports and pinning the blame on Hillary?
Regardless, both Obama and Edwards now are on notice that they’ll need full pads and helmets at all times.
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Welcome to the NFL
It’s the season for hard hits – both in football and politics.
Two political hits, in particular:
- A Washington Post story that John Edwards sold his D.C. mansion for $5.2 million to Paul and Terry Klaassen, “wealthy founders of the nation’s largest chain of assisted-living housing for seniors” who are “currently cooperating with a government inquiry in connection with accounting practices and stock options exercised by them and other company insiders. They are also the focus of legal complaints by some of the same labor unions whose support Edwards has been assiduously courting for his presidential bid.”
- A report, debunked by CNN, that Barack Obama attended a radical Muslim school as a child. The report appeared in Insight magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times. The magazine’s website reported that “associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the
The question, class, is this: Were both hits generated by the Clintonistas, who learned something about personal-foul politics in the 90s? Or did the vast right-wing conspiracy pull one over both the media and the Democrats by engineering the reports and pinning the blame on Hillary?
Regardless, both Obama and Edwards now are on notice that they’ll need full pads and helmets at all times.
Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other articles in our Forum.