Wishin Obama were your mama?
My girl from Seattle came down to visit and was surprised by the tame support for Mr. Obama in these parts, compared to the mania up in the northwest urban areas. Perhaps because it's a given down here that we're going to vote for him? Any thoughts on his candidacy? Here's the spot to voice your political opinion on the upcoming election.
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Permalink Reply by Unkle Fun on -
The pink elephant has entered the room. Did anyone say assassination?
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Permalink Reply by dancingbear on -
Listened to Obamas' acceptance speech this evening. He said his campaign is not about him it's about the people. I truly want to believe his rhetoric. So do my friends, who support Obama or were for Hillary. I feel the bay area supports Obama but I worry about other parts of the country. Like Matt Taibi said in Rolling Stone; 'unfortunately much of the country is bigoted and stupid'. Scary to think McCain/Bush might have a chance in November.
Go O!
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Obama Would "Immediately Review" Potential Of Crimes In Bush White House
Attytood's Will Bunch has a new interview with Barack Obama
Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects.
I mentioned the report in my question, and said "I know you've talked about reconciliation and moving on, but there's also the issue of justice, and a lot of people -- certainly around the world and certainly within this country -- feel that crimes were possibly committed" regarding torture, rendition, and illegal wiretapping. I wanted to know how whether his Justice Department "would aggressively go after and investigate whether crimes have been committed."
Here's his answer, in its entirety:
What I would want to do is to have my Justice Department and my Attorney General immediately review the information that's already there and to find out are there inquiries that need to be pursued. I can't prejudge that because we don't have access to all the material right now. I think that you are right, if crimes have been committed, they should be investigated. You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve.
So this is an area where I would want to exercise judgment -- I would want to find out directly from my Attorney General -- having pursued, having looked at what's out there right now -- are there possibilities of genuine crimes as opposed to really bad policies. And I think it's important-- one of the things we've got to figure out in our political culture generally is distinguishing betyween really dumb policies and policies that rise to the level of criminal activity. You know, I often get questions about impeachment at town hall meetings and I've said that is not something I think would be fruitful to pursue because I think that impeachment is something that should be reserved for exceptional circumstances. Now, if I found out that there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront, then I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law -- and I think that's roughly how I would look at it.
The bottom line is that: Obama sent a clear signal that -- unlike impeachment, which he's ruled out and which now seems a practical impossibility -- he is at the least open to the possibility of investigating potential high crimes in the Bush White House. To many, the information that waterboarding -- which the United States has considered torture and a violation of law in the past -- was openly planned out in the seat of American government is evidence enough to at least start
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Permalink Reply by Unkle Fun on
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Was anyone else as gleeful as I when I saw McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as VP? You have to laugh at the way the GOP was trying to spin it as if she were a powerhouse. If he was trying to appeal to the feminists who wanted Hilary than perhaps he shouldnt have selected someone so strongly anti-choice, and if he's trying to appeal to the evangelicals than doesnt he know that a woman's place isnt in politics but in the home? It is so transparent! At least he cant harp upon Obama's "lack of experience", considering he has one foot in the grave and is offering up as VP replacement a complete novice as our Chief in Command. And this lady has baggage! Not counting the fact that he 17yr old daughter is knocked up (Palin believes the only kind of sex edu that should be allowed in schools is abstinence only... that obviously works), but she is currently under investigation for firing the cheif of police for NOT firing her ex-bro-in-law. Well at least she knows how Washington works... she's got nepotism and corruption down pat!
If this doesnt backfire in McCain's face than Im moving to Canada.
-unkle fun's wife
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Permalink Reply by dancingbear on
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Pip has survived the Pequod!
Anyone who has followed this campaign has to feel the history of the the moment and the real hope that Barack Obama will begin to reverse the total bullshit the Republicans have unleashed on this country and the world. He has the chance to be one of the great presidents. I'm personally inspired to make my life a better place to live and so the country.
GOBAMA GOBAMA GOBAMA
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