Yet another case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” What’s got me peeved most at this point, though, is the Republicans and their media calling him gay. There’s nothing wrong or scandalous about gay. Foley is, repeat after me, a PEDOPHILE. If he were gay, he’d be interested in relations with similarly aged members of the same gender. He’s been going after boys. It’s not the same thing, and it >is< scandalous. It’s like calling someone who likes to suck on toes a “leg man”. (Not that sucking on consenting toes is particularly scandalous, but you get my drift.) If your average run-of-the-mill pedophile was told by a judge, “Hey, just watch yourself” and then allowed to carry on his life without any consequence, there would be protests and outrage, yet this is exactly what Hastert and who knows how many other GOP representatives did. For close to a year. So they wouldn’t lose a seat to Democrats. These same people who impeached a president because of a stained blue dress have shown how easily they change their moral stance when it’s convenient for them. Again. And again and again.

Of course Fox News spun the interview with Chris Wallace as if Clinton was a raving maniac, but if you look at the actual interview, you can see that it’s just spin. I had forgotten all about the fact that when he was trying to get Bin Laden, the Republicans, who’d been trying to turn everything he did into a criminal, impeachable offense, accused him of wagging the dog. If you listen to what was said, a lot of pieces fall into place, and you start getting a clearer picture of how Republican neocons were trying to get into power not on their own merits, but by building a distrust of their opponents going way, way back. Foist on their own petard by now, it seems, because without any of the merits and qualities that make for good governance, their own reprehensible actions and attitudes are making them even less appealing than the most lustful and adulterous Democrat the party could ever put on the ticket. Things should be very interesting in November. Too bad it’s only November 2006. . .2008 can’t come soon enough.

Postscript – Another Alison suggested adding the link to Keith Olbermann’s Commentary on this. Thanks! I love this guy.

Post Postscript – Keith Olbermann again backing up Clinton’s statements – What the Bush Administration did about Al Qaeda in its first 8 months