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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:00 AM

Eric Holder, Jack Quinn and the Rich pardon

It's premature to criticize Obama for his establishment-soothing appointments. But it's just as premature to heap praise on him for those appointments.

Glenn Greenwald

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 07:20 AM

I Hope the Rude Pundit is correct

and OS really IS going to save us all

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2008/12/obamas-cabinet-choices-are-shut-fuck-up.html

but I doubt it. I'll just STFU and wait for OS to demonstarate his man-of-steel-like determination to implement Change by using a bunch of right-wing Washington retreads.

And Glenn, parhaps it's me, but I can't parse the timeline in this sentence.

Quinn was Legal Counsel to Al Gore -- who, during most of Holder's work on the Rich case, looked like he'd be the next President --and, thereafter, Quinn became Clinton's White House counsel.

Hadn't Quinn previously (not thereafter) been Clinton's White House counsel?

—bamage Read bamage's other letters

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