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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:40 AM
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What is wrong with these jackasses that think Libby deserves to be pardoned?
WHY? What part of "he broke the law" do they not get?

Why should he be pardoned? Does he bring entertainment to our otherwise boring lives or something?
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:42 AM
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1. the letter writing is a Rove maneuver to bully the judge
nt
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:43 AM
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2. It's the K Street circle jerk. Hell, Carville wrote one of the letters. - n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:44 AM
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3. The very day the sentence was announced, the presstitutes
where on talk shows assuming he would be pardoned -- or so it seemed in the five minutes I forced myself to watch them.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:54 AM
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9. Those "what about the children" letters are laughable
What about Joe and Valerie's boys?

Has anyone told Scooter and Harriet's kids that their daddy outed a CIA agent thereby putting her life and the lives of her family (her twin boys included) in danger?
Has anyone told Scooter and Harriet's kids that their daddy outed a CIA company thereby putting who knows how many lives at risk?
Has anyone told Scooter and Harriet's kids that their daddy is an active member of the most corrupt administration in modern history and that his actions are contrary to the Constitution and the laws of America?
Has anyone told Scooter and Harriet's kids that this just the tip of the iceberg and that their daddy has done so many things that are just as bad or worse?
Has anyone told Scooter and Harriet's kids what the lastest casualty numbers are from Iraq?
Has anyone told them that their daddy sent those people to their death and that because of his actions which ultimately lead to his conviction that there are little kids, just like them, that will be killed before they get to see their daddy again?

Hell, those kids are probably traumatized alright. They're slowing starting to realize that their father worked for one of the most evil cabals ever to run a government.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 01:18 PM
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25. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of somebody's kids
who have died in Bush's occupation.
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:44 AM
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4. They weren't doing it for Libby, they were doing it for Judy Miller
Everyone knows that the aspen root are connected. Judy might wilt if Scooter is so far away. So everyone is actually stepping up to save Judy, their ace reporter, not Scooter. :evilgrin:
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:45 AM
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5. IOKIYAR
Edited on Wed Jun-06-07 11:46 AM by Mandate My Ass
"It didn't matter that Clinton lied about a BJ, he lied under oath," they screamed for years. "It's not about the sex. It's about the rule of law."

It was all a freaking lie. Libby has done far worse, five or six times over, and they're throwing the world's longest and most obscene pity party. :nopity:
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:52 AM
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6. I heard Glenn Beck while I was driving to get groceries.
According to him, it's because lying to a grand jury has been done before, during the Clinton admin, and nobody was prosecuted then. Ergo, Libby deserves to be excused. I know: WTF?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:53 AM
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7. It's because he's a rich white man, and they're not "supposed" to go to prison
That's about the sum of it. In fact, that's what his defense team was basically arguing.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:53 AM
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8. Right.
I understand why neoconservatives support him -- one should never expect anything approaching morality to come from their ilk. But when people who report to be democrats are taking the "gosh, no big deal" position, I think it's outrageous.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 11:58 AM
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10. Getting the pardon is not the point
It's about creating the illusion to enough people out there that pardoning Libby won't be such a big deal. If they keep whining about a pardon, enough people will start to think that a pardon is not a big deal.

The same thing with repeating the lie about how Plame was not covert. If they keep repeating the lie over & over again, enough people out there will at least think the issue is in question that it will raise a reasonable doubt about Libby and people will think a pardon is not a big deal since there could be some doubt.
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:09 PM
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11. The bottom line is that someone in this administration outed an
undercover, covert, agent and the cover company and there was an investigation by a substitute for the Attorney General, Fitzgerald, since he couldn't investigate something he was a part of. Does that make sense? Anyway, this was not about personal behavior. When you attempt to divert from the truth, and cover your bosses ass, like Libby did in this case when his boss wanted to shut people up that wanted to get the truth out about false info that took this country to war, then yes, give the liar time to do.

The media is so trying to say that Libby wasn't the guilty party, he was covering for his boss!? What is wrong with this logic? He lied to a Grand Jury about a secret agent and an undercover company.

The Dems have to get their act "together" and repeat to the media the dastardly deeds that George the Decider has and is doing to undo this nation. My belief is only an impeachment proceeding would slow george's path to destruction down. He has his scopes on Iran. He is trashing Putin and the world as I speak. Gorbachev was just on CNN saying that George is a disruptor to world peace or words to that effect. How embarrassing. He was real close to the truth and the world knows it.
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dusmcj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:10 PM
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12. they're rodents worried it could happen to them
there's a lot of trash piled up in DC these days.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:15 PM
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13. He shouldn't be pardoned but he's gonna be
but I hope not before he does a little time and hopefully has the opportunity for shall we say a little prison romance. With a name like scooter that's practically a given.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:18 PM
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14. Because they are afraid they may be next.
They all have broken the law in practicing "the means justifies the ends" philosphy of politics. If Libby's sentence sticks, they could be tried too if evidence surfaces of their wrongdoing.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:29 PM
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20. Especially Matalin, come to think of it.
Right in the thick of WHIG, she was, wasn't she?
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:38 PM
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23. Yes, as an advisor to Dick Cheney, if she isn't directly complicit, she
knows what they do and where they bury the bodies.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:34 PM
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22. I hope they are next
:mad:

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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:19 PM
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15. They are threatened. They want to keep their lifestyles.
They fear that they might have to live some imaginary lifestyle they might have heard about. A made up "liberal" idea that they'll have to live in a big communal house with lesbians and gays, and dirty dishes, and no car, and lack of privacy, and no ability to start a business and make more money than others.

There are myths that have been created to frighten people into clinging to conservatism. Or more accurately right wing authoritarianism.

Either be hard and cruel and take what you need, or be soft and weak and live a poor life. But it's a lie. That is not how we're going to live.

To be honest, they should fear the authoritarians much more than if the liberal lies were to come to fruition. The way we are headed is far more likely to result in the kind of civility seen in places like China.

And that is why they fear that Libby will be found undeniably guilty for all to see. It might reveal a truth they don't want.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:20 PM
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16. Well, there is LAW and there is law
LAW is for the everyday ordinary joe, law is special wink and nod for members of a certain class unless there is an example to be made like paris and patty. I would like to see this whole fucking class dry up and blow away in the wind, leeches, takers, useless fucking eaters every damn one of them.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:21 PM
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17. Oliver North. He his a hero to the RW because he took the fall for RayGun. Same with Libby
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:22 PM
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18. arent these the same people who are arguing about evolution ?
i mean sometimes i seriously worry about humanity.

sigh!
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:25 PM
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19. He lied during the course of a federal investigation
The man broke the law by lying and obstructing justice... He deserves to go to jail and his sentence should send a message that no lying or obstructing allowed... Maybe these crooks will think twice before they lie, although I doubt it.....:shrug:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 12:31 PM
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21. He lied to protect HIMSELF from the greater charges of conspiracy and treason.
He's no innocent taking the fall. He's a co-conspirator.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 01:00 PM
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24. Not innocent at all....
But all he is convicted of is what I stated in my previous post.. What his intentions were are correctly stated by your post... He was covering his crooked ass for sure...
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PuppyBismark Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-06-07 01:33 PM
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26. What was it that the Repubs thought of Clinton's Perjury?
Seems that when Clinton was accused of lying under oath, the GOP thought that was a "High Crime and / or misdemeanor"? But what Libby did was just fine?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
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