"This is politics and politics is unfair." Lawrence O'D.

[babylonsister]

Yes.

[Kirk Lover]

1. I'll take that one further ...Life is not fair.

[ck4829]

2. Except it's NOT unfair for you if you're the right person

[MattP]

3. I hope Bob Menendez doesn't run we don't need the stench

I still haven't forgiven him for the way he went after Obama for the Iran deal

[dflprincess]

4. He's doing a great job

discussing the widespread party support of Bob Menendez since he got his hung jury and the hypocrisy of it all.

[Stuart G]

5. Lawrence O D. is correct, never been fair.

Once in a great while, the evil get their due. Yes, Nixon resigned, was humiliated..but that was due to Watergate, not the Viet Nam War he kept going. He was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people...

Bush has never had to repent his awful decision. He still says he made the right decision..Has he been penalized?..you tell me.

So Bush still gets money for speeches, and Franken resigns. Is that fair?..at least Carter has gained a whole lot of respect since he left. But when he lost to Regan, he was put down and demonized by many.
..very rarely do great politicians get their due when alive...rarely...and Lawrence is correct, "never been fair."

In addition the evil ones, often don't get their due either..Also.........................................
Kirk Lover is correct. but I will add one word,........ "Life often is not fair"

[BannonsLiver]

6. Yeah and he went on to mock the idea that any high ground was obtained by railroading Franken.

Which was the more relevant point. We all know life’s not fair. What I didn’t know there was a full embrace of a man who faced indictment today by the same people who railroaded Franken. Because Chris Christie is governor and Franken will be replaced by a Dem. he exposed the cynisism of such maneuvering nicely I thought.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I have been watching and that sentence is so clear!

It makes me feel better in a way. Lawrence is doing a good show. False equivalencies, hypocrisy, the political process, irony, lack of fairness is what this is all about. Times have changed and are changing and this is where we are right now with sexual harassment as opposed to two months ago, two tears ago or 20 years ago.

All my life I have been complaining..."but that's not fair". A friend said to me about 20 years ago "life is NOT fair, accept it". It still pissed me off since life SHOULD be fair. I became a teacher (changed careers) and I told my students, "Life is not fair, but in my classroom IT IS!". Kids are really concerned about fairness and I am not running the world and can do nothing to impact fairness on the grand scale that I wish I could, but in my world/my classroom I was able to make IT fair and my students respected that environment. They would come back to visit and they always remembered and mentioned that our class was fair and they appreciated it.

[renate]

8. it makes me feel better too

Like Al wasn't so much personally attacked, all out of proportion to what he might have done (even if he'd actually done it, which I doubt), and more like he was just caught up in a hurricane.

It still really pisses me off. It does kind of seem as though life being unfair generally tilts towards life being unfair to the good people.