Obama = Eagleton?

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Too bad we don’t have nationalized medical care yet and then TMZ could just pay some shifty bureaucrat to look up all his private personal medical records and blab.  If his handlers have no more character than he does, look for Barry to be under the bus soon.  

Roosevelt once rightly said that in politics nothing happens by chance or mistake, but everything happens for a reason...
It may look like chance or mistakes to the unwashed, flag wagging little hulkamaniacs.
Example:
Years ago during a plenary session of the European Parliament, Berlusconi started a feud with an opponent named Schultz, who had criticized him. Berlusconi told Schultz that somewhere they were filming a movies on Nazi Germany and that he recommended Schultz to play the part of a kapo.
Now can you imagine a more obtuse retort? It sounds as from  a lunatic asylum's inmate , not a man who made billions.
Schultz, a far left activist whom many consider Jewish, went berserk and the whole session was disrupted.
Servile journalists on the right called Berlusconi's performance a misunderstood joke...on the left it was lamented that a fascist dictatorship would soon be in place...
Truth was, in that session the question of Russia and Europe ought to have been discussed, and left-wingers had promised a bloody fight.
After what happened, the Russian question disappeared, to be probably discussed in some committee out of the public sight.
It wouldn't be strange to infer that Berlusconi willingly stirred a controversy to sink the Russian problem to safer depths.

Left-wing drug and prostitution advocate party leader Marco Pannella lamented he wasn't getting enough media coverage, but they told him to go hiking. What could Pannella's minute party do? He started going around with a Star of David similar to that Jews had to wear under Nazi regimes...you imagine the controversy...finally Pannella was locking horns with angry and disconcerted Jewish pundits over the front pages of many newspapers...the attention he had that far lacked was his...or do we think he's an idiot who compares being Jew under Nazis to getting little press?

In the 1950s a disabled US bomber got rid of a real atomic bomb near a southern US city. Pilots did what they were ordered, but the bomb has this far never been recovered. For a while newspapers were imperiously asking about it. Then one day another bomber accidentally lost a conventional bomb that made a huge crater somewhere...the media started to talk about THAT and forgot to bug big brother about that plutonium that is probably dissolving under the feet of their proudly patriotic countrymen...