http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com News about politics and economics. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/only-republicans-think-theyre-scandals/#comment-5327 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:02 +0000 https://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=16675#comment-5327 Very insulated it seems.. or maybe it’s just a feel-good campaign! Detached from any consequential thinking!

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/only-republicans-think-theyre-scandals/#comment-5326 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:22:06 +0000 https://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=16675#comment-5326 Don’t they remember what happened during the Clinton years? Too much scandal-mongering might help your enemy.

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/only-republicans-think-theyre-scandals/#comment-5325 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:54:16 +0000 https://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=16675#comment-5325 Yes indeed. Simple brainwashing techniques. Which some have done on economic issues for decades, and still get away with it.

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/only-republicans-think-theyre-scandals/#comment-5324 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:51:43 +0000 https://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/?p=16675#comment-5324 There definetly is a lot of hate speech coming from the right. The problem is much if it seeps into the views of others. Looking at polls of how many people believed that Obama was a foreign born muslim, proves that if you tell a big enough lie, over and over again, people begin to believe

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5309 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:01:06 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5309 Yep, agreed… I didn’t really follow it that closely, but reading through the case now, she’s just soooo guilty – but a rich girl with connections!! Same with her boyfriend, so they just jailed the african guy. Very ugly.

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/house-of-cards/#comment-5308 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:58:29 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/house-of-cards/#comment-5308 Ah, that’s a great tip! The show is great, so I’ll look into those books too!

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5307 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:22:24 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5307 I was quite saddened by all the celebrating that went on when Amanda was freed. Even if she hadn’t done it, the way that the murder victim seemed completely forgotten and overlooked by the reporting was disturbing.

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/house-of-cards/#comment-5306 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:19:42 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/house-of-cards/#comment-5306 Haven’t watched the show, but I’ve wanted to read the novels for a long time…have read other books by that author (Michael Dobbs) and his political fiction is very good. Gotta get out there and finally get those books

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5299 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:46:18 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5299 Oh yes absolutely. “I did it, and I don’t care”. Then she scared the two guys in the room to fall in line with her bogus stories.

]]> http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5298 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:20:01 +0000 http://talkandpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/italian-court-orders-new-trial-for-amanda-knox/#comment-5298 She has got that, “I did it” look in her eye. She got right to work on that book the second she was off the hook.

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