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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:20 PM

    Oh!, umbrage

    "One quick question. For someone to really 'game the system,' would you need to have multiple instances of influence being wielded inappropriately? Does one (possible) instance really qualify?" -- umbrage

    Good question.

    I'd like to be able to take the absolute route and state that if there was one instance of such activity, it would be too much....but...

    I really don't know what my threshold on this would be. As I said, I am merely catching a whiff of this sort of thing (and I don't even know that Holder did utilize his inside connections), but I'd really like to see the law being imposed without regard to the "connections" of the party involved. Again, it's philosophical on my part but I am reality-based enough to know that I'm dreaming.

    The Versailles Syndrome isn't going away instantaneously, but it would be nice to see a small chunk of it disappear early in the Obama administration.

    This place makes me think too much.

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