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Barack Obama could learn a lot from studying Richard III.
Barack Obama, whose election was regarded as an extraordinary event in American politics, has embarked upon a campaign of reconciliation. In general, this is to be applauded, except when it comes to traitors.
Richard III came to the throne of England by a series of unusual events. (I, for one, do not believe the lies told of him by Sir Thomas More and repeated by Shakespeare, but never mind.) His reign was marked by several rebellions, most significantly one led by the Stanley brothers.
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, and his brother, Sir William Stanley, were involved in several intrigues against Richard. Thomas was even married to the mother of the usurper Henry Tudor (later Henry VII).
Richard, desirous of promoting peace in his kingdom, released both brothers after a brief imprisonment, rather than executing them painfully as was the custom for traitors. The brothers promptly betrayed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the Plantagenet dynasty and ushering the House of Tudor.
Once a traitor, always a traitor! If I were Obama, I would sleep with one eye open and looking at Lieberman.
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The only thing history teaches is that we never learn from it.
Listen carefully to what Lieberman said to Couric tonight. He denies he agreed that Obama was a Marxist…but that’s only half the story. He actually played up all the Memes about Ayers, Muslim, Kenyan-Born, Radical OBAMA!
“NAPOLITANO: Hey Sen. Lieberman, you know Barack Obama, is he a Marxist as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today’s New York Times? Is he an elitist like your colleague Hillary Clinton says he is?
LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that’s a good question. I know him now for a little more than three years since he came into the Senate and he’s obviously very smart and he’s a good guy. I will tell ya that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t…I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.
So he’d “hesitate” to call Obama a Marxist. Not a categorically rejection at all…he simply doesn’t want to quibble, or perhaps is waiting for more information (or perhaps, even worse, the guy could get elected!)!
But Lieberman learned a lot during the campaign about OBAMA….Hmmm! What could those things BE?
And then he says that Obama is FAR to Joe’s left! And we all know that Joe Lie is a LIBERAL! Dontch’ya!