Yes, it's true the whackjobs have fashioned an entire rogues' gallery of seemingly peripheral players, mostly from from Chicago, whom they've used to tarnish the President's reputation: Bill Ayers, Tony Reszko, Valerie Jarrett and the like, all part of some massive conspiracy to infect the body politic with un-American French Socialist values. As is often the case with conspiracy theorists, they're on to something, but they're reading the tea leaves upside down; the Chicago gang hasn't been plotting a Socialist coup all along but something far more banal, and arguably more destructive. There's too much of substance in this post to excerpt in brief, so go read the whole thing. It helps to explain a heckuva lot about what's happened with our government over the last four years. Even more amazingly, it was written in 2008.
(Via Yves Smith.)
---Vitelius
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