I wonder if George will pardon Laura for her murder of Michael Douglas on a Texas highway?

Vernon Hardapple on December 21, 2008 at 1:24 PM

Murder implies intent. You, sir, have an overactive imagination.

Alter reality, control the conversation. Don’t buy it. Some things are not debatable and they should be dismissed as such.

Agents of Change, indeed.

More important, when Cheney sold the stock options that he received from Halliburton after resigning as CEO, he donated all – all – of the proceeds to charity.

Cheney ACTUALLY engaging in war profiteering

Cheney’s tax returns as VP have been published.

Can you cite in his returns where he has engaged in “war profiteering”?

As most of us know, he no longer works for Halliburton and all of his investments were placed in a blind trust when he became VP.

Let us remember that those people were demanding investigations (media not criminal) into Cheney’s work with Halliburton when he was a candidate. Not just after his election.

And they were right to do so.

But for many it was simply illegitimate to examine Obama’s associations.

Again, it’s fair to look at both men’s associations.

Seriously? I mean…SERIOUSLY? Your response is “nah nah, now you can’t talk about the blatant conflict of interest between Cheney and Halliburton’s reconstruction contracts because you boohoo’d the Ayers-Obama connection?” There’s a whole lot there.

You originally snarked that reporting on Palin’s inlaws was payback for the conservatives’ examination of the relationship between Obama and Ayers and Obama and Wright.

Then you backtracked and admitted they’re not the same.

The two matters are, of course, completely different and Olbermann is simply smearing Palin with this report.

Second, it is entirely proper – and necessary - for the press to look into any public official’s chosen associations – not inlaws - to determine whether anything illegal or improper was done. And for the public to get a better understanding of the views and type of person they are electing to the Presidency.

Full stop.

But those who said it was illegitimate to examine Obama’s associations have no ground to stand on when they were demanding scrutiny of Cheney’s associations.

Public official’s associations are fair game for us to examine when those associations may affect public policy.

And that is true whether the official is Cheney or Obama or anyone else.

Vernon Hardapple on December 21, 2008 at 1:24 PM

Dear Mr. Assapple,
You’re way out of your league here moron….
go home and have your mommy make you some hot cocoa or something….

I guess you must be quite upset about all those stories connecting Cheney and Halliburton? You’re outraged over those smears, right?

Seriously? I mean…SERIOUSLY? Your response is “nah nah, now you can’t talk about the blatant conflict of interest between Cheney and Halliburton’s reconstruction contracts because you boohoo’d the Ayers-Obama connection?” There’s a whole lot there.
1. Conservatives (and Cheney it seems) are finally admitting all the things lefties accused them of as Bush-Cheney leave office. Which means that you didn’t really disbelieve charges that Cheney hooked up his old company with millions of dollars of YOUR tax money on an Iraqi reconstruction project that didn’t succeed. You just don’t care? Amazing.

2. I agree that Palin should not be smeared due to her daughters bad choice of in-laws. I think that Obama’s association with Ayers is more relevant than Palin’s with Bristol’s baby’s daddies momma. I also think that Obama’s associatoin with Ayers is less relevant to his ability to govern than Cheney ACTUALLY engaging in war profiteering, and ACTUALLY throwing out the U.S. constitution when it’s convenient and ACTUALLY not raising a finger to prevent cuts in veterans benefits for a war he almost unilaterally pushed through the Administration.

3. Seriously?

There. If I read one more leftwinger denouncing “guilt by association” I want everyone to simply type in respone:

Halliburton.

That should end their nonsense.

Or has it slipped his little brain…

Maybe he could talk about Barry’s relative living in a mud hut in Kenya or wherever he is, living on 10 bucks a year…

But that would be beyond the pale…of course.

It’s funny when the politics of guilt by association comes back to bite you in the ass. Conservatives claim your associations matter. Except when they don’t

I guess you must be quite upset about all those stories connecting Cheney and Halliburton? You’re outraged over those smears, right?

Associations matter – potentially – when they are freely chosen. Not when they are forced upon one by marriage.

If one can’t see the difference between an in-law doing something wrong and a business/working/political associate engaged in wrong-doing, then one needs to spend less time on blog and more time contemplating why they failed to develop their minds.

You can find a compilation of “50s” Christmas Music here put together by Janet Crain, Blogs Sarah Palin 2012. Janet Crain “History Chasers” Fellow Researcher, Genealogist and Family Historian.

http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-to-all.html

And to top it all off, their patriarch was a Nazi sympathizer.

ramrocks on December 21, 2008 at 12:08 PM

And a bootlegger to boot. I.e. a 1930’s drug dealer.

Squiggy on December 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM

He was an anti-Semite too – that’s why he liked Hitler and the Nazis.

Olbermann is a characature, a fraud, a liar – a joke.

marklmail on December 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM

I agree. The man is a Warner Bros cartoon character with a Mel Blank voice. But he must get ratings or MSNBC wouldnt keep him around. Would they?

Seems to me, palling around with drug dealers should elevate Palin in Olby’s drug addled world.

Palin’s circle is nothing compared to the dysfunctional in-bred Kennedy one.

katiejane on December 21, 2008 at 12:03 PM

Just my opinion. They all look alike.

ramrocks on December 21, 2008 at 12:08 PM

Wrong family -
That would be Prescott Bush, grandfather of G.W. Bush