{"id":151,"date":"2006-02-11T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/11\/speaking-of-wars\/"},"modified":"2006-02-12T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T21:45:08","slug":"speaking-of-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/11\/speaking-of-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"speaking of wars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"58\" hspace=\"7\" height=\"72\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blankromegovernmentrelations.com\/LLCimages\/comstock.jpg\" \/>The most interesting thing on the web right now is the <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.blogspot.com\/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113963944949488595\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Barbara Comstock Affair at Firedoglake<\/strong><\/a>. She&#8217;s is charge of Scooter Libby&#8217;s Defense Fund. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">She may be also be the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.democracygroups.org\/pipermail\/rightwatch\/2001q3.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mother-of-all-dirty-tricksters<\/strong><\/a> [2000 RNC Bush Campaign Research, Florida Recount, Ashcroft&#8217;s spokesperson, etc.] Look in the comments section of the post on FDL for all the goodies about Barbara, a former Ted Kennedy staffer who got born-again reading Orrin Hatch! [I didn&#8217;t know he could write].<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Where do these people come from?<\/p>\n<hr width=\"90%\" size=\"1\" \/>\n<p align=\"justify\">Update: Well, Barbara Comstock appears to have had her fingers in a lot of nastiness in her days with the Republican machine &#8211; trashing Clinton, the 2000 Bush Campaign, the Florida re-count, Ashcroft&#8217;s confirmation, Delay&#8217;s defense, etc. She sure got a lot more out of reading Orrin Hatch than I ever did. Summarized on <a title=\"It's Evil Harpie Time With Barbara Comstock\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.blogspot.com\/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113970434152073632\"><strong>the Firedoglake&#8217;s website<\/strong><\/a>. along with a pretty <a title=\"Comstock Load of Crap\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.blogspot.com\/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113968005854544117\"><strong>good argument<\/strong><\/a> that she shouldn&#8217;t even be allowed to be on the case at all? <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">I still think my question is valid. Where do they find these people?  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting thing on the web right now is the Barbara Comstock Affair at Firedoglake. She&#8217;s is charge of Scooter Libby&#8217;s Defense Fund. She may be also be the mother-of-all-dirty-tricksters [2000 RNC Bush Campaign Research, Florida Recount, Ashcroft&#8217;s spokesperson, etc.] Look in the comments section of the post on FDL for all the goodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}