Wapsie B
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:07 PM
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If we cannot even rid ourselves of Lieberman, how could we even hope to ever punish Bush and Cheney? |
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It just boggles the mind. All we had to do was strip Joe of his chairmanship. There was no censure, nothing like that. Just get him out of his chairmanship.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:08 PM
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1. Do we need change - or not? |
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Maybe Obama is more like Mandela than one realizes.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:10 PM
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3. Lieberman now owes Obama--big time. |
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:09 PM
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2. ain't gonna happen, they all belong to the same club and we can't join |
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:11 PM
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Justice is only a pipe dream in this case.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:17 PM
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9. And he's free to attack Obama for the next two years |
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:12 PM
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5. Bush/Cheney were never going to be punished ever. |
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No President has ever prosecuted his predecessor, and Obama never even suggested that he would be the first.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:16 PM
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8. It is a fraternity of sorts, albeit a highly exclusive one. |
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:53 PM
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16. It has nothing to do with fraternity. |
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Believe it or not, Washington does not operate on the same petty level your personal life does.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:12 PM
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6. We can't expect accountability for the Cheney Administration |
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It's just as simple as that.
It is very clear that Obama's approach to high level criminals is to simply let the past be the past.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:15 PM
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7. He's an idea... Stop hoping for Bush & Cheney to be "punished" |
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I hope they slide silently into history. Punishing them now, whatever that means, does nothing to fix the destruction of this country.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:34 PM
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11. Maybe that's why they sat back and let it "destruct" - they knew it would |
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create major priorities that would make their punishment seem low ball and petty in comparison.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:32 PM
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10. We better get used to it. I don't think there is going to be "payback" at |
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any level - even for Bush administration skulduggery, war crimes, etc.
Obama is not into retribution - he has other things on his plate and it just isn't something he does, historically.
I hate it but that's just going to be the way that it is.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:34 PM
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12. This move pretty much sinks our chances of voting him out next time too |
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Since the "dems" support him, why wouldn't the people of CT?
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:36 PM
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13. EXACTLY. Eight long years of lies and betrayals and we're supposed to accept.... |
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this smarmy little weasel back in the fold. I've had enough lies, swindles and betrayal in sitting government officials to last me a lifetime. I'm not happy.
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:37 PM
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14. Spineless. Fucking. Wimps. |
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Tue Nov-18-08 12:38 PM
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15. Where did you get the idea that Bush and Cheney will ever be punished? |
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they have gotten thru there entire terms without punishment and Obama is not going to go after them. So where are they going to be punished?
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