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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:08 PM Original message |
This comment from Obama is concerning me. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. No President has ever been prosecuted by a later President. Ever. Not once. |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No kidding. Even Jeff Davis walked free |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Jeff Davis was not the President of the USA. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. well, ... after being in jail for 2 years. the prosecution didn't drop the case until 1869. |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Past Presidents have committed flagrant crimes that were found |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Say it again. Bush's crimes are obvious and known while he is still in office. He should have been |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
27. Can someone point out to our President Elect that |
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nodramamama (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. focus "on getting things right in the future, as opposed looking at what WE got wrong in the past" |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. Obama is a politician, |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I agree. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. I'm with you |
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sammythecat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. That makes a lot of sense and gives me a little hope. |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Honestly, we may have to rely on the Europeans for this one |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:30 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I'm pretty cynical myself really. |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. Translation: Getting things right in the future, as opposed to |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. True! This country will pay for it's crimes one way or the other. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. The driver of a getaway car would have the same attitude, sadly. "Professional politics." |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I have never been there but I love me some Tahiti! |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. Obama is a politician with the situational ethics that generates. That's why he's prez and ... |
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argonchloride (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. The sad truth is, whatever they did, they've already "gotten away" with it. |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. 'What they did' is very well known and prosecutable. |
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argonchloride (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Of course. And they will get away with it insofar as the "legal system" is concerned. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. I think there will be 'hearings'.. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
22. I remember Bill Clinton said the same thing when he came into office |
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nashville_brook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. it's because Poppy and Nixon got away with "it" that we're in this mess now. |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm still pissed that Nixon was never prosecuted |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
26. IMO the prosecution - if it comes - will be from overseas - most think it won't happen - link.... |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-11-09 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
28. I think there is fear at play here. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-09 03:22 AM Response to Original message |
29. PLEASE READ : Glen Greewald at Salon! |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-09 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
30. figured it out yet? |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-12-09 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
31. the problem with not prosecuting presidents who break the law . . . |
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