Only in the distorted atmosphere of hysteria, hate media and propaganda would a buffoon like Chris Christie even be offered as a viable Presidential candidate.

Have we really become so disjointed as a nation that this makes sense?

Nothing defines our political bankruptcy greater than the failures in Massachusetts in the Gubernatorial process. Anyone paying attention?

Presidential candidate? (photo: Mel Evans/AP)

The Passion of Big Chicken: A Parable

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

06 February 14

he local Jersey papers are kicking all sorts of ass on the unfolding saga of "How Chris Christie Is Not Going To Be President" -- a story on which there is all kinds of ass waiting to be kicked -- but this latest from the Bergen Record is just, well, pathetic doesn't even begin to cover it.

Christie's aides dug deep into the past, referencing an incident from 1979 when Wildstein was a high school student and running for a seat on the Livingston school board. A teacher, they said, accused Wildstein of "deceptive behavior." But they did not mention that Wildstein and the teacher, Albert Adler, later made up and said they simply had a "misunderstanding."

First of all, a national politician -- beloved by half the Green Rooms in Washington and New York -- defends himself against an ongoing conflagration of malfeasance in office by dredging up some adolescent finagling on the part of his principal accuser. Then, his people get caught barbering the truth about it.

Adler issued a statement at the time saying he signed it without reading it, believing it to be a petition supporting "a write-in campaign." He said he was in a rush at the end of a school period and was talking to someone. He indicated that he had been manipulated. "I cannot agree with this technique, and in my opinion it is far too serious a problem in terms of political manipulation," Adler wrote. But he apparently changed his mind. He and Wildstein issued a joint statement to the newspaper on April 10, a week after the election, saying the entire matter had been "an honest difference of opinion" and "basically a misunderstanding."

Not any more, it isn't. It is a reason why Chris Christie Should Still Be President! Holy balls of Poseidon, this is so very sad.

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