Comments on: About That Eavesdropping? Funny Story. . .

By: Electric Elliot

Electric Elliot — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:10:31 +0000

Thanks for the report, Walker. I didn’t even hear anything about the abc report.

By: Chris Van Vechten

Chris Van Vechten — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:13:06 +0000

Walker, what is data mining?

By: Chris Van Vechten

Chris Van Vechten — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:12:42 +0000

@Glynnis Kirchmeier, I don’t know, Harding and Nixon were reasonably corrupt. Chester Arthur was pretty awful too (though no one remembers him). Eisenhower got us into a lot of shit (Cuba, Vietnam etc) but it was the elegance of Kennedy that made both ventures popular and the stuberness of Johnson that kept us involved. Reagan was pretty bad. But I think I would subscribe to what Bill Maer said “You don’t become the worst president in US history without a little help from the Democrats” and that was

By: Jen Drake

Jen Drake — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:21:20 +0000

@Glynnis Kirchmeier:

Silence is golden.

Although I am waiting to hear what Chris has to say about this when he gets home tonight

By: Glynnis Kirchmeier

Glynnis Kirchmeier — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:45:32 +0000

History folks: Has there ever been an administration this corrupt? The only one I can think of was Grant, and maybe Reagan, but at least both of them were relatively clueless about the corruption of their inferiors, while the Bush administration actively expands the executive in an alarming way while also reducing transparency. The latter action implies knowledge of all these illegal things.

So…anyone worse? Anyone?

By: Jen Drake

Jen Drake — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:21:14 +0000

Thoughtful and well written post, Walker! What you wrote is terribly disturbing, and it makes me angry. Apparently, Norm Dicks, our congressional representative to DC, has voted in favor of all that crap too, which is why my vote is against him this year. Time to tell our congress to stop with the bullshit–you sum it up succinctly in your last paragraph.