On the other hand I doubt that Chinese investment money into Democratic campaign funding would ever enjoy MSM coverage that oil lobbyist campaign funding into Republican coffers would. They would find a way to circumvent the issue. In fact the question should be asked: Did the liberal left press keep the Hsu story buried only to resurrect it at a propitious time when they knew that an alternative story would minimize the impact? In short, did they wait for the right moment? I give more intelligence to the press for scheming and sophistry than I do to the Clinton’s. Personally I think the Clintons were just lucky in this regard.

We have an argument with the press that should sober all of us. They should be the mainstay of truthful reporting and the vanguard against deception and propaganda. They are anything but that. They hurt us even more than the Clintons. They were here before the Clintons and will be here after them and they are decidedly left biased. In some Countries, such as Venezuela, the press is shut down because they speak the truth. In this Country they lie and have the freedom to do so because we support free speech. When you think about it Hugo Chavez would love our left leaning press. In fact Castro, his socialist mentor, supports our leftist press and our leftist candidates.

We have a long way to go through the campaign process. We both know what should be reported will not be and we will instead be sensorial overloaded with an avalanche of trivia designed to bury the real issues. Somehow despite all of this we will persist and I believe we will prevail.

BTW, we all know why Sen Craig was embarrassed about the hand under the stall divider issue. He was probably wiping off some residue from the nasal cavity.

We have come to an impasse and philosophies are in conflict. They are at war. Either individual liberty and freedom survive and prosper or the State, once again, becomes our master and determines our choices, our thoughts and our speech. Do we take arms against a sea of troubles or do we go to sleep seduced by the narcotic of State sponsored compassion and care? The false prophet is campaigning and in so doing talks the talk without showing how it will walk the walk. Yet history provides plenty of evidence of failed and dysfunctional liberal philosophy. We have seen how liberals do not walk the walk and in fact provide government solutions to problems that not only fail to remedy the problems but often make them worse. Unfortunately, like incurable gamblers, an uneducated public buys into the same proven and failed argument again and again and again. A liberal agenda requires an uneducated public and someone to blame.

I remember a line from an Ayn Rand novel where Barbara Branden was asked by a student “What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?” She answered: “If you want to help them you will not be stopped”. When a powerful liberal government controls all aspects of compassion based upon their ideologies, programs and goals you will never again have that choice. All your choices will be made for you by governmental edict. Failure to comply will be a crime and punishment will ensue.

In the end the choice in philosophies begs that the question be answered: Do we wish to be free or do we prefer slavery?