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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 07:24 PM

@Joan and Obama fans

You really do not have a problem with the man who was behind the Mark Rich pardon? That pardon took away what little credibility the Clinton Administration had despite great success on the economy, crime, and education.

As for the Waco raid, I do not have a problem with it. The only thing that was wrong was that the Feds let the Branch Davidians keep that stand off so long. And, it is dumb that right wingers have been allowed to hang that incident over the head of the government whenever they need to raid compounds that are used to break the law (the FLDS raid comes to mind).

I do not know whether to laugh at the naivete of Obama supporters who actually thought that Obama would totally disavow the Clintons (when his surrogates basically said that if they did not campaign for him and he lost that the Clintons would be to blame) or feel bad for them. Two thirds of the Obama staff is made up of Clintonites. And, what are fervent Obama supporters to think of the fact that Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson (a former member of the Clinton cabinet), Lawrence Summers (Clinton's Sec. of Treas.), and Bill Clinton's general counsel are all up for cabinet positions?

As much disdain as I might have for Obama groupies, I regret that he is breaking promises to them. Obama is ignoring the fact that virulent hatred of the Clintons is one element of the fuel that powered Obama's campaign. Obama's supporters in the press hate the Clintons, the left blogosphere hate the Clintons, black people were tricked into thinking the Clintons were racist so they hate them, and all those except the Hillary voters who agreed to support Obama hate the Clintons. They must be appalled to see the people Obama once denounced and mocked as being old and out of date and unworthy of him and the governance of America, being brought in. I imagine they feel worse about that than I feel about this Lieberman.

I would like to toss this question to the Obama groupies: in light of Obama's votes to continue funding the illegal occupation of Iraq and vote for FISA, are you shocked by his staffing decisions or are you only somewhat surprised? And, what will be the final straw?

Frankly, I am done with the Democrats. I can only cross my fingers about court appointments. As for everything else, they cannot be trusted.

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