Just A Coincidence

By tristero

To suggest that this sting was deliberately set up by Republican goons to entrap a friend of the president is simply paranoid, preposterous, and over the top. We may have our differences with the Republican party, but let’s get real: They would never, ever, stoop so low as to suborn a police department in Honolulu and have them set up Obama’s pal.

True, Republican thugs employed by a Republican president were caught burglarizing a doctor’s office for dirt on his opponents. True, Republican thugs have recently posed as hookers and pimps to entrap gullible social workers – and, when they didn’t get the footage they wanted, Republican operatives were dishonest enough to edit the raw footage to be far more incriminating than it actually was. And yes, it’s true that a Republican governor was part of a group of Republicans who helped steal a presidential election for his brother.

But for Republicans to entrap a friend of the opposition president with a street hooker, thereby isolating the president from his intimates and increase the psychological pressure on him ? They would never, ever do that. Why, that would be…wrong.

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Special note to the overly literal among the commentariat: Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether this was a Republican-backed operation designed to embarrass Obama at a particularly difficult time, or simply one of those random things that sometimes happens. I suspect no one, I suspect every one, as Clouseau sez.

My only point is this: If you think Republicans would never use such tactics in order to terrorize and discredit their opponents, then I can only admire you for your generous and forgiving and trusting nature. Otherwise, I’d have to laugh in your face for being such a stupid and naive fool.

As for the inevitable commentator who will surely infer from the above that, since I didn’t specifically say otherwise, I must believe prostitution is a victimless crime, that I think that the women and men who work as sex workers are always doing so of their own free will,, etc etc etc etc.. You are soooooooo right;! How could I possibly assume that everyone would know that street walking is not a career I aspire for my child? So, let me unequivocally state that I don’t care what anyone says to the contrary, I for one, am against, completely against, forceable prostitution.

Some other things that also aren’t obvious and need to be said: I believe that serial killers should be apprehended before they kill again. Also, we really must find a cure for cancer. Finally, and this one’s a real shocker: Qaddaffi is a tyrant.

If no one else has the courage to take a stand on these and many other issues and say what’s right, well then, I suppose I must.