Arne.. I appreciated the link, but amnesia (would it be ageist to call it Alzheimers?" is the glue that holds the right-wing movement together.

Where, after all, would they be, if they couldn't point out that Dems were pro-slavery in 1866, but a little less so after 1972? And we all know that if not for the DFH's, we'd have paved and striped Vietnam by last week or so. And I saw O'Reilly declare, smugly, that although the Surge was a gift from God, the war itself was now well-known to be a mistake, abetted by Hillary, et al. The Founding Fathers put "under God" into the (not yet written) Pledge of Allegiance. Joe McCarthy was a misunderstood hero. Reagan liberated the Concentration camps. The 90's boom was a product of Reagan and Bush......

I could go on, but there's that pesky 1000-word limit.

When you create your own facts out of whole cloth, not only are you never wrong, but the whole narrative holds together so nicely.

"The good end well, and the bad end badly; that's why they call it fiction." Oscar Wilde

Now, maybe it's my fault for being so dag-nabbed cynical, but if these trolls mooning over Hillary are for real (and lipsticked pigs fly) I'm not so sure I was mistaken for opposing her.

If Hillary's supporters were so obtuse, dreadful, and stupid, well, give me a cigar and call me Monica, but I'm kinda glad they're gone. Of course, I don't believe a word they say... I'm more than usually cynical this long after cocktail hour.

But honestly, if someone had truly supported the Clintons, and lived through the right-wing assault against them, and could now be gloating about another right-winger flushing our gravely damaged country the rest of the way down the toilet with the same tactics, well, let the professionals figure that one out.

In the end, all we ever get in this country is the lesser of two evils, the greater of which being constantly extolled by the MSM, and, like the Naderites of 2000, these dear folk are just not getting this simple, albeit unpleasant, fact.

The righties, for all their (glaring, deeply disturbing) flaws, at least get enough oxygen to their brains to know the difference between enemies and friends.

The PUMA's, not so much.

Today, listening to my local progressive talk station, which inexplicably uses ABC for its hourly news, I heard some rather delightful and surprising 60-second blurbs about this faux "controversy." They paraphrased Obama's rather effective rebuttal, then played a key sentence or two, then played clips of McCain and Cheney both proudly and derisively using the "lipstick on a pig" metaphor. Accustomed, in this format, to hourly hogwash... (Rebublicans say earth is flat, some Democrats say it's round) followed by stock market/oil price reports, and comically portentous music that is, risibly, meant to convey both immediacy and relevance, I was utterly bowled over by the fact that they were actually doing a serious debunk of a Republican lie.

I rubbed my ears in disbelief, until I surmised that this was just some advance inoculation for the credibility infection they were about to contract from their fawning and hyped interview with the great Moose-ellini.

Sorry, trolls, but as with Bush Daddy with his "political capital" (which should never of course be taxed... we owe those richies for their genius) I think the McCainiacs shot the dwindling pellets from their little guns a bit early this time.

As O'Reilly is so fond of saying, "Is that all you got?"

(Reilly... your comment on the good Dr. Todd, sage and Casanova... too delicious for words.)

Semiodd hits the nail on the head.... The religion of the market and "self interest," (the "enlightened part got tossed in the crapper long ago) has permeated everything. Once an airy-fairy notion of a few Objectivists surrounding Ayn Rand, far divorced from reality, the notion of a Utopia borne of individual selfishness has been hammered into the heads of everyone with the misfortune to have been educated in the US, and not just in Economics.

Despite the fact that such selfishness inevitably leads to disaster, and then a "collective" bailout, those who have enriched themselves through organized theft and gaming the system live on to fleece another day. And teach another generation this utterly false religion.

I would like these "journalists" to think, for a moment, whether any professional, or even laborer, can possibly seek, first and foremost, his own "self Interest" only, without regard to consumers, clients, customers, co-workers, and society at large.... The whole theory is complete bullcrap, and needs to be knocked down, every time another disaster occurs that was borne of this theory.

Aych... I'm not a psychologist, but I had a 13 year affair with one, and I don't recommend it. If you were disappointed to find yourself falling into a science-based typology, imagine my horror when an amateur astrologist, an aerobics teacher at my gym, took my birth dates and locations, and days later wrote a profile so accurate (and not particularly flattering) that identified influences and traits in my life I hadn't even admitted to myself, that I was almost a convert.

As Rummy said, "There are unknown unknowns..."

Let's just not teach them to children.