Forgive and Forget?

[Nonno]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/op...rugman.html?em

"Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”

I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.

Let’s be clear what we’re talking about here. It’s not just torture and illegal wiretapping, whose perpetrators claim, however implausibly, that they were patriots acting to defend the nation’s security. The fact is that the Bush administration’s abuses extended from environmental policy to voting rights. And most of the abuses involved using the power of government to reward political friends and punish political enemies.

At the Justice Department, for example, political appointees illegally reserved nonpolitical positions for “right-thinking Americans” — their term, not mine — and there’s strong evidence that officials used their positions both to undermine the protection of minority voting rights and to persecute Democratic politicians."

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And you mouth breathers accuse Sara Palin of whining

[bcp (Premo)]

Im betting that obama cant make the first year without breaking some law in some way...

like maybe citizenship requirements or something?

think maybe there is a reason he doesnt want to rock the boat?

[jetmonkey]

Was that before or after Bush #### blocked him at the Blair house, lols.

[kom526]

Originally Posted by Nonno

At the Justice Department, for example, political appointees illegally reserved nonpolitical positions for “right-thinking Americans” — their term, not mine — and there’s strong evidence that officials used their positions both to undermine the protection of minority voting rights and to persecute Democratic politicians."

How is this any different from Joe Biden trying to convince the Gov of Delaware to save his vacant senate for his son when comes home from Iraq? What is that thing about glass houses?

The anointed one won the Friggin election, GET OVER IT DEMS! We should take up a collection to get a terrorist cell to blow up NYT.