Being absolutely unsurprised at something and actually wishing for that thing to happen are two different things, Mr. Panetta. It’s like telling a promiscuous person that they’ll get HIV - you don’t wish they will get it, but are you really surprised if they do?
Leon is from the Soviet Republic of Ca. Worked for Bubba. What would you expect from a guy who thinks national defense is hand holding?
Yeah, but somehow I think Panetta has got it right. Kinda like the Clintons and him kinda getting off on the Republican infidelities as they surfaced.
Some of this is just human nature and occurs across the political spectrum.
parsy, who tries to be noble.
Well said. Although you just know there’s also some projection here - I’m confident that many a Liberal bedtime prayer to Gaia was aimed at having GW fall flat on his face.
Like Shakespeare said about one of the characters in Julius Caesar, "He is a slight man, meet to be sent on errands."
Panetta's first hack-job was errand boy for Lyndon Johnson, who made Panetta his political procurator for wayward Louisiana, in charge of integrating Louisiana schools. One of Panetta's brave defis was to call in the members of a local school board, tell them they couldn't quit and they couldn't say no, that they would do exactly what he told them to do every time he told them to do it, or they would go to federal prison.
These were people, mind you, who were current on their bills and taxes and had no warrants or charges outstanding. They hadn't been accused or convicted of a crime, but he treated them like criminals.
That is the sort of thing Leon Panetta did, 40 years ago, to entoad himself to the likes of "Landslide Lint'n", the worst human being ever to hold the office of President of the United States, until Bill Clinton and his consort washed up on the White House steps.