Reply #86: Definitely got my attention. First time I've seen that photo [View All]

[vickitulsa]

at least that I can recall. And I HAVE been following the Abramoff story for quite awhile now.

That pic does remind me of one you'd see in an engagement announcement, too, as someone else here said! Ewwww.....

I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I mentioned Abramoff to a neighbor who doesn't really care much about politics, period, yet she at least recognized the name and had it linked to both corruption and chimpy in her mind.

And while it's true that the story faded from most news scenes (if they can still be considered that, meaning the corporate media formerly known as the mainstream media), it's also true that that damn name, ABRAMOFF, keeps popping back up again and again. I think that's why my neighbor recognized it.

It's like "the dead thing that won't lie down," as in Golding's Lord of the Flies.

Of all the scandals and other criminal doings this administration has been caught in and connected to, I have always thought it was the Abramoff stuff that was going to bring them down in the end. Johnny and Janey Q. Citizen may find a lot of the details a bit esoteric, but the bottom line is ... well, the bottom line! It's all about bribes and payoffs and kickbacks and two sets of books -- that sort of thing. I think the average American "gets it" on that kind of crap once they hear it laid out without all the organization charts and complicated convolutions to confuse them.

Finally, I'm reminded again of that Ghandi quote I see every now and then here at DU and elsewhere, the one where he points out that ALL wicked dictatorships eventually fail and the once-mighty ones fall -- ALL OF THEM ... "think about it."

Many of them who have reigned over limited regions and populations may slip by almost unnoticed by the wider world, but the "biggies" -- by definition they cannot go unnoticed! The stench from the pits and crotches of sweaty thugs in this administration has drifted globally for so long now and offended the nostrils of so many. What would give more of the planet's populations more joy and relief than to see U.S. citizens take down our own high criminals, I wonder?