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This is the Change I was Promised
If you are one of those political watchers with an appreciation for fact and consequence, you already know that political dynamo Jamie Gorelick is just about the worst public figure ever produced by an orderly and intelligent civilization, having played a critical role in both the economic meltdown of the present day and, ten years ago, in the intelligence community’s failure to interdict the September 11 attacks. That she is a Democrat has preserved her safely in the zone of “tragically short-sighted” rather than “horrible, incompetent, and percolating furiously with disastrous ideas,” which is roughly how it’d run were she a conservative who had accepted a multi-million dollar no-show job from Fannie Mae fresh from erecting by diktat an intelligence wall that kept the FBI and the CIA from sharing data about Islamic terrorists.
The foregoing is by way of mentioning that: 1) magna cum laude from Harvard ain’t no thing; and 2) Barack Obama is not so much about change as he is about putting old-hand left-wingers back in charge of everything, including the Judiciary.
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