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Mike:
IMO the criminality exhibited by previous leftists like FDR,LBJ and W Clinton pales in comparison to the criminality that's been exhibited by the current White House occupant. It is well known that ontold millions were donated to his 2008 campaign by G Soros thru fake small "donations" purportedly from Africans.
Obama has set a new standard of lows in this area and many others.
The office of the Presidency will be a long time in recovering from the stain left by Obama and IMO it will be far worse then the previous stain left by Carter.
Jim

The press actually celebrates Leftist lies, anti-constitutionalism and criminality. They marvel at the achievements, completely rationalizing the corruption within the context of the subjective morality of Religious Statism.

Sorry, this is wrong.

As a life long sailor and keelboat owner, the term "sail too close to the wind" means to point the boat too much into the direction of the apparent wind, thus depriving yourself of both boat speed and then rudder control. Continuing to point this high means your sails will shortly be flapping uselessly. The term gets used in idiomatic circumstances to describe someone/something that is dangerously veering towards a course of action that may have dire consequences. Aptly used by King.


Mike, you are describing a beam or close reach with too much sail. Kinda fun but you'll be faster with a reef or two in the sails.

If US press anything like Canada's, it's almost totally owned by conservatives. Canadian newspapers are peeing all over our majority conservative government, often with good reasons according to my conservative friends.

Perhaps Ken will tell us how the rich conservative owners are corrupted by their workers to celebrate not only another ideology but merrily follow them into criminality and religious statism. Seems strange to me.

with the exception of that media funded by tax payer dollars, the rest of the media is driven in pursuit of profit goals. revenues are derived primarily from advertising sales. profit is what is left over after expenses and taxes...so, media outlets are as liberal or conservative as their advertisers are willing to pay for them to be. for example, fox news advertisers pay for mostly a conservative view. cnn advertisers pay for mostly a liberal view, etc.

the last episode of "the roosevelt's" is on tonight...dont miss it. and if you missed any of it, there should be reruns. it is just amazing how ken burns of walpole, nh can continue to do such wonderful work...bet ike will be his next project?

Ken Burns is a well known Leftie and the episodes I watched are slanted to the Left. I just bet there's NO indication that the military so distrusted Roosevelt that they never told him they had broken the Jap code.
Furthermore E Roosevelt is freely described as being a Lesbian today another fact that I'm sure won't be mentioned.
And then there is the who scenario that he knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance and did nothing so he could get the US into WW II.
He is best remembered as the President that started us down the slippery slope to Socialism a path we are paying for dearly today.

What seems a little strange to me is to watch an anecdote 'change' into a fact. Maybe, conclusion reaching via story telling. I wonder what would make a self described liberal follow this type of logic. Used to getting away with it?

Although the "L" word was not used in the segment I saw, there was discussion about ER's female companion, with fairly clear implications of a close personal relationship. Picture of the girlfriend looked like J. Edgar Hoover in drag.

Perhaps you could pay closer attention if you are going to be a media critic.

Letters Between Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok

Eleanor Roosevelt (ER) and Lorena Hickok began their decades-long relationship in 1933, before FDR's inauguration. Lorena, or Hick (as ER called her) was a highly successful reporter, and ER was about to become First Lady. They shared an emotional and romantic relationship that peaked in passion and later developed into a friendship that endured until death.

When their relationship began, ER was not a naive, inexperienced woman. Biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook states that after 1920, many of her closest friends were lesbians, and that she both honored their relationships and preserved their privacy. ER's letters (and she wrote ten to fifteen page letters daily to Hick for a time) indicate a romantic attachment that was physical. She knew what kind of attachment this was, and the secrecy its nature demanded. As a result, finding evidence is difficult--but not at impossible.

The relationship these two women shared has been--not surprisingly--heavily censored over the years. While they lived, photographs of family dinners were cropped to remove Hick's image. If she was included in a photograph, she was not identified. And she was certainly not talked about, even to biographers. After ER's death, Hick herself edited and retyped much of their correspondence. She burned some of ER's letters and many of her own. After Hick's death, her sister Ruby read the original versions of their first year of correspondence and then threw them in the fireplace, saying, "This is nobody's business."

Even Doris Faber, author of The Life of Lorena Hickok: ER's Friend was horrified by the correspondence. She tried to get the letters sealed from the public until after the year 2000, and when she couldn't do that, she decided to ignore content that reflected on the relationship. About one particularly romantic passage, she declares that there can be little doubt that "it could not mean what it appears to mean."

The collection Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, published in 1998, recently gave the public a new glimpse into the life of one of America's most beloved First Ladies.

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Some excerpts:

March 5, 1933, ER to Hick
March 7, 1933, ER to Hick
[Date not provided], ER to Hick
[Date not provided], Hick to ER