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A decades-long hobby of mine is the John and Robert Kennedy history. I have a very high opinion of much of how they led, with as a rule far-sighted policies. Our nation misses that sort of leadership.
I have a story I want to be true, involving RFK, Jr. providing that sort of service. Here he is putting mercury into national awareness; there he is putting the theft of a presidential election in front of the country. Go, Robert, go.
However - Farhad does exactly what he should, and we should - but many don't - want him to: pursues the truth.
Farhad is the skeptical analyst we need before rushing to judgement. He's doing a great job and deserves our thanks.
My one criticism is that he's so focused on answering the question, did the known problems change the result of the election (his answer remains that the evidence is lacking), that he puts little focus on the important fact that there IS significant wrongdoing by the republicans which is an important issue even if the result was not changed.
What's the story on Watergate: Nixon respects constitution, follows court order to hand over tapes, and resigns rather than creating a constitutional crisis to try to keep power; or, Nixon guilty of other abuses of power and lies?
Sure, Nixon defies Supreme Court or 2004 election stolen are the big headlines if true - but even without them, widespread republican fraud in 2004 or Nixon uses CIA to try to cover up underlings' burglery of democrats are still big stories.
Farhad does acknowledge wrongs by the republicans, but treats them as unimportant side notes.
That doesn't take away from the fact that he's doing the thankless, courageous analysis of the popular claims.
Thank you for providing that, Farhad.
It's too bad there isn't a way to lock Farhad, RFK, Jr.,Conyers researchers, Palast and others in a room long enough to hash out the issues to a quality consensus result. Sparring articles is pretty inefficient.
