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BoogyMan
03-14-2007, 09:11 PM
The following email went out recently from the Hillary Clinton camp as an aid in her run for the Whitehouse.

Today I called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Join me in calling for him to step down.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow

Why should Gonzales resign? Because he is at the center of a widening scandal over the firing of several U.S. attorneys -- firings we now know to be political. These attacks on the impartiality of the federal government's prosecutors are a genuine threat to the foundations of our justice system. It's so bad that one U.S. attorney in Arkansas was fired to make room for a former aide to Karl Rove.

Even if the firing of the 8 attorneys is political what would you call replacing those attorneys when a new president is put into office? Is that NOT political? The commentary about the attorney from Arkansas is truly amazing as it is not only based on an assumptive read of what happened, but it also falls quickly against the question I previously asked about political appointments.

Gonzales's chief of staff has already resigned over the firings, but the attorney general himself is ultimately responsible for what happened. Join me in asking for him to resign now.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow

I would have stood my ground an told the left to pound salt before allowing my chief of staff to take a shot in the gut for this abject partisan lie that is being foist upon the American public. The only thing Gonzales has done wrong is that he doesn't seem to have much of a spine to stand in the face of the hackery that the left is now seemingly determined to mire the country in.

Gonzales isn't the only one who needs to answer for this scandal. President Bush and his staff must come clean about their involvement in these politically motivated firings. I've joined the call for a full and thorough investigation to determine all the facts. But it is time for the attorney general -- who repeatedly and falsely claimed the firings were based on performance -- to step down. He has clearly forgotten the difference between his current job as America's top law enforcement officer and his old job as President Bush's personal attorney.

Hillary now claims knowledge she doesn't have and in so doing focuses on what seems to be the original intent of the email in the first place. She seems to want to claim that firing these attorneys, who serve at the pleasure of the president, were fired in some improper fashion.

She had no problem with 93 of them being fired when her husband became president of the country which points out her hypocrisy and the broader blatant dishonesty of the left.

Join me today in calling on Alberto Gonzales to resign.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/resignnow

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton

It is my conclusion that the only thing we should stand together in is making sure this woman NEVER has a chance at the presidency of the country. Her dishonesty and her hypocrisy is at a level that this country has never seen.

ECW
03-15-2007, 01:08 PM
Her dishonesty and her hypocrisy is at a level that this country has never seen.


Unless you read the newspaper today and saw an article on some guy named George W Bush. His picture is in the dictionary next to the word "hypocrite."

Stoner
03-15-2007, 01:46 PM
Nice change of topic but do you have anything to say about the thread at hand?

speedracer
03-15-2007, 02:34 PM
Even if the firing of the 8 attorneys is political what would you call replacing those attorneys when a new president is put into office? Is that NOT political?

I think it's disingenuous at this point to suggest that most, if not all, were not dismissed for political purposes. With possibly one exception, I think logical people can agree that it was. Hell, the administration has already admitted as much. But that doesn't make it wrong. What's makes it wrong is the way the Justice Dept made it personal, going after the individuals. They used the instrument of government against US citizens. If that ain't wrong, I don't know what is.

I would have stood my ground an told the left to pound salt before allowing my chief of staff to take a shot in the gut for this abject partisan lie that is being foist upon the American public. The only thing Gonzales has done wrong is that he doesn't seem to have much of a spine to stand in the face of the hackery that the left is now seemingly determined to mire the country in.

Gonzales seems to have forgotten that while he serves at the pleasure of the president, his employer is the American people. He was absolutely wrong. Cutting his chief of staff loose just reinforces my disgust with him. It was the move of a coward.

She had no problem with 93 of them being fired when her husband became president of the country which points out her hypocrisy and the broader blatant dishonesty of the left.

You're not seeing the forest through the trees. Canning all of them at the beginning of the administration is a normal thing to do, made normal by King Ronnie. Firing eight of them out of the blue, who just happen to include several people investigating politicians is dirty, plain and simple.

It is my conclusion that the only thing we should stand together in is making sure this woman NEVER has a chance at the presidency of the country. Her dishonesty and her hypocrisy is at a level that this country has never seen.

I don't like Hillary, but I don't think her reaction here is wrong. Sure, she's trying to score some political points. Who running for president isn't? I wonder if you hold all politicians to the standard you hold Hillary.

NortheastCynic
03-15-2007, 02:35 PM
Well, to be honest, I don't know if these firings were politically motivated or not [although it appears as though they were]. Clearly, Hillary is using this as a political ploy to attract attention, as is her tendency and the tendency of all politicians.

That said, I do believe the Attorney General should be fired. He has ignored the Constitution on a regular basis thereby violating the very law he swore to protect. Yes, fire him, but don't fire him because he fired 8 lawyers.

Aside: Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzalez...Three consecutive AG's who have NO respect for human or Constitutional rights, can someone please break the cycle.

-NC

ECW
03-15-2007, 02:40 PM
Nice change of topic but do you have anything to say about the thread at hand?


I did. Hypocrisy, despite your best efforts to paint it that way, is not a Democratic enclave. Plenty of Republicans live there as well. That was the point. Sorry you missed it.

Hillary's appeal is SOP for political solicitations. Edwards used Mann Coulter to raise $$$. Bush has used Democrats in his pitches to raise money for the GOP. There is nothing new about all of this except his over-the-top claim that "Her dishonesty and her hypocrisy is at a level that this country has never seen."

ECW
03-15-2007, 02:41 PM
Aside: Reno, Ashcroft and Gonzalez...Three consecutive AG's who have NO respect for human or Constitutional rights, can someone please break the cycle.


Give me a couple of years. We're working on that one right now.