{"id":2172,"date":"2011-04-11T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2011-04-11T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:12:32","slug":"carrying-water-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/carrying-water-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrying Water for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the funniest political videos that I have watched in a long, long time. The mainstream TV networks just love war, because it is so spectacularly violent and attracts millions of people who also watch the advertisements, thus fattening their bottom lines. Every TV network has its talking heads who parrot the official line out of Washington. That’s what makes this video so funny – watch it until the end, when you will witness an astonishing response to Christine Romans that infuriates her – watch her body language. And then watch how fast the spin-meisters get rid of their antagonist. Do I have any bets as to the likelihood of Michael Scheuer appearing again on CNN?<\/p>\n

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Michael Scheuer<\/a> is a former 22-year employee of the CIA and headed the unit (from 1996-1999) that tracked Osama bin Laden at the Counterterrorist Center. I’m quite sure he knows a whole lot more about the issue than the talking heads featured in this video. It is Mr. Scheuer’s contention that bin Laden is seeking to bankrupt the United States as a way to reduce its influence as a world power. I’d say that Michael is right. Wasting billions of dollars that could be more productively deployed to employ Americans, re-build our infrastructure, teach our children, provide health care for all, and find ways to reduce our dependence on oil sounds like a recipe for disaster. A disaster that both the Republican and the Democratic Parties are leading us towards. People who know me consider me a contrarian but I was bewitched by the silver tongue of Obama in 2008 and voted for him. I regret that. I won’t do it again. I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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