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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:23 PM Original message |
I am confused by the lack of Bush pardons |
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Kittycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think he made a deal for his own skin. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I cant believe Obama would make that deal |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. The Bush cabal will not be held accountable for their crimes. Why should they pardon themselves? |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Could be |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I hope that's how things turn out. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm Confused Too, But... |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. Two Principles Guide His World, Comrade |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Well put! |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. I second the "well put". nm |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. Took the words out of my mouth. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. hmm. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Speculation but |
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housewolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. One fact has always been clear about GWB.... he is opposed to partdons |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. His opposition to pardons |
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Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. I especially remember the request for clemency GWB denied Karla Faye Tucker |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. Bush is such an asshole he thinks he and all his buds |
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Merlot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. "We don't need no stinkin pardons!" |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. Move: No pardon = everyone enjoys 5th Amendment protections.... |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Exactly |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. He's a lazy man. Maybe he didn't care to do any paperwork. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. True! |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. He's a jug-eared little coward, who has NO friends. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. But with his money he will always have faux friends. nm |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. 1) no admission of guilt, 2) no empathy, 3) no fear of prosecution |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
24. Thom Hartmann had an interesting theory today on his show - |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. Obama may not want to get dragged down with prosecutions so he may have made a deal. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
26. it's inconvenient when the people we demonize don't conform to our preconceptions |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. No. Probably not a down right evil man. But his authoritarian ideals and belief system have sure |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. I tend to agree with your assessment of Bush |
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musiclawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
27. Don't you have to be convicted or indicted to be pardoned? |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Sadly no |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
30. He did not want to piss all over his own self righteous image of being one of those smoke-em-out |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. His cat horked on the paperwork? |
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