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Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:40 AM

bush can and will still do immeasurable damage

Is there any doubt that this administration will run last minute favors in the form of insidious giveaways and corporate gifts?

The worst legacy this administration will leave if Bush and Cheney are not impeached has far deeper levels of damage than is being acknowledged.

Bush will grant blanket immunities to everyone involved in scandals we know of and many we don't, challenges to malfeasance will be made harder to accomplish because this administration was never challenged in terms of breaches to constitutional law.

Investigations into malfeasance will be made hard to impossible with unjustified secrecy classifications and disappeared documentation along with blanket immunities.

Continued abuses of constitutional laws will be hard to challenge because they weren't challenged in this administration when they were being abused. Unchallenged abuses run the risk of being almost approved by a lack of being challenged.

Democrats are worried about what a long impeachment process and the investigation taking longer than Bush has left in office would do to the party. The senate oversight committee has boldly stated that each and every senator and representative is not doing their job of upholding and protecting the constitution if they don't. Not only that but that the hard to investigate and prove cases are not the place to fight the battle. Bush and Cheney have both publicly refused to comply with legislation and oversight investigations legally initiated by the senate oversight committee. Bush refused to comply with legislation specifically enacted to force him to comply with his job of enforcing legislations, he refused to comply.

The process of impeachment would be as simple as answering the question are they guilty of intentionally defying the constitution, and if so taking a vote on whether it in fact is accurately true. There is no gray area and there is no choice of how each and every senator and representative would have to vote because every no vote to impeach would be indicative of another administration bad apple earmarked for elimination from our system.

It's that simple, one week to accomplish and democrats would rule in an unobstructed way that will not be possible without the impeachments.

Monday, August 25, 2008 09:43 AM

We know enough about McCain, why worry about VP's?

I don't believe we've ever had a president with the history of weak senate record, lousy scholastic achievments, shadowed military record, and proven marital cheating. Oh yeah, I forgot Bush.

Now we're concerned about a guy's past record? Give me a break. McCain has enough questions running simply on his military record that I find it very hard not to be seeing a public that demands that his record be laid out to see. He has to have reviews that spell out why he wasn't promoted to flag rank, there may be references to the incident which killed 170 people on an aircraft carrier that McCain seems to have had an involvement in as well although that was covered up pretty well.

How can a man that is acknowledged to have cheated on an injured wife and is now married to that cheating woman be considered as a president of the United States of America? Our past history shows periods where the hint of this kind of scandals would have gotten a president impeached, now we'll ignore that complete lack of moral character and consider electing him as president?

God help this country because the supposedly moral god fearing faith oriented voters sure aren't going to, they've lost their sense of moral guidance and outrage.

"McCain's a war hero, we should trust him"

Friday, September 5, 2008 10:59 AM

Unbelievably contradictory campaign and blind support

This kind of campaign could only be run by a party that has the blindest and most gullible people on earth supporting it. These sheeple have the ability to completely disregard the worst kind of character flaws exhibited by their candidates while the most senseless and ludicrous drivel about the opposition becomes imbedded into their mental mindset.

McCain's major moral and integrity lapse when caught cheating on his wife and then leaving her to fend for her own recovery became what? Oh, he was going through a rough time what with his POW experience. Oh, but that POW experience is what proves he has what it takes to run this country. Excuse me, he apparently didn't do so well if he ended up cheating on his wife and leaving her when she needed him more than she ever had due to a severe accident and months of recovery.

I'm sorry, this is but one of the smaller indicators that this is not the kind of man we want representing this country, we do not want the country judged by such an individual.

It used to be that a governor or president had to have a squeaky clean background and resume, the hint that he smoked pot in college could derail the possibility of their consideration. Now we put mentally retarded idiots in office and follow it up with the lowest in a class of almost 900 officer candidates who crashed a Navy record number of planes and that has the moral integrity of an alley cat.

Un friggin believable.

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