"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him" -- Leo Tolstoy.
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You would be hard pressed to find a occurrence when the Both Sides is deployed in defense and in favor of a Democratic person and or situation.
When Sen. Robert Menendez was popped for taking bribe(s). Show me where any media goof deployed, "well it is no big then because both sides do this.
Recall Obama committing not only a great sin but a vial moral injustice by wearing the tan suit. All the grieving right wingers that wept for a year.
Then, when Sen. Mitch McConnell wore a tan suit. The media didn't think anything immoral of it and never once deployed the Bot sides defense.
I would like to add the W administration's "Ownership Society" push for more construction and (what turned out to be predatory) loans to lower income folks to the toxic stew that blew the bottom out of the economy and made him less disposed to either take responsibility for or do anything useful to fix the damage he had done.
My stroke was April, 2008, so I crashed out of the workforce just before the whole thing blew up.
I do remember people dancing in Peralta Street the night Obama was elected, and I also remember entire neighborhoods in Oakland, where the housing market was already (and still is after all of that time) overheated just decimated by the crash, with the "lucky" folks who got to stay in their houses underwater on their mortgages to the tune of twice what their homes were valued at, and no chance at selling or refinancing for what turned out to be a decade.
All of that way, way above my paygrade.
Thank you again for the podcast. We bought a watermelon for $3 yesterday, and I'm about to chop it up and eat it.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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