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Obama, Bush and Troubled German/American Relations

Chicago, IL —I have a lot of friends that consider themselves political moderates or even Liberal.   When they saw the wide smile of America’s first Black presidential candidate they somehow fell in love. After suffering eight years with a horrible president, George Bush many of my friends gambled on this unknown African-American, Barack Obama who they figured could never be worse than Bush.   They all simply wanted change particularly with respect to Bush’s ill-advised wars.   Bush wore the Republican label and his detractors called him a Right Wing Conservative.   Bush was mislabeled as a Conservative when he was nothing of the kind.   His rhetoric seemed Conservative but that was always just talk.   His actions were Liberal and Leftist.   He was also not very smart. Bush got us needlessly into two wars that really served no purpose for America.   Attacking Iraq was really dumb.    Had Bush stayed clear...

The Crimefile News review of The Fifth Estate

Berlin, Germany —The Wikileaks massive document dumps exposing mass government deception and corruption inspired this film.  Apparently fugitive blogger/hacker Julian Assange somehow got ahold of the script and completely hated what he’d read in this Dreamworks project. Hundred of thousands of cablegrams were intercepted and forwarded to the Wikileaks organization.  The material was censored before it was published by various news organizations.  Wikileaks went ahead and posted the raw material on line for the entire world to examine. The biggest issue was the material provided by Army private Bradley Manning .  Was manning a spy or a whistleblower?  I think the answer lies in the corruption and deception by our own government.  Manning is doing some serious time over his role.  Frankly I’m on his side of this argument.  Americans have a right to know when their elected officials are engaging in deception to us.  The scriptw...