Posted by
Burorambo on Friday, October 05, 2007 2:01:09 PM
We are worried today about the symbolism behind Obama wearing or not wearing an American flag pin on his lapel. Why doesn't someone just ask him? Wait. We would then have to worry about the meaning of his response. Better not to ask.
We are also worried today about a woman athlete who adamantly denied using performance enhancing drugs for years and is now admitting that she did so and is facing exchanging her Olympic medals for some jail time. Along with this report, we hear he saying over and over that she has never failed a drug test. Is saying that you never failed drug test the same as denying you used drugs?
Not long ago, when asked straight out if Iran was planning to attack Israel, Ahmadinejad obfuscated by saying something like Iran had no need to do so. In its coverage of the question and answer, a prominant newspaper later reported something like Iran will not attack Israel.
I blame Bill Clinton for this.
If it were not for Bill Clinton and his defense of his questionable morality while in the Whitehouse, we would still be asking hard, follow-up questions, demanding clear yes or no answers, and not allowing ourselves to aid and abet public deceptions - we could not be as content as we now are to sit up in the booth doing the color commentary.