To be more straightforward for those of you who don't like clicking on links, Chris Floyd wrote this last November:
No mainstream Democrat will ever allow full-fledged criminal investigations and prosecutions of Bush II officials for torture and the war crime of military aggression. You know and I know that's not going to happen. We will get, at most, some soaring rhetoric about "healing national wounds" and "coming together again" and "moving on." (With the outside possibility of a few small fry being offered up as sacrifices, to let the Dem president preen as the "restorer of the rule of law" -- and also purge the Republicans, and Bush, of the worst taint: "Hey, it was a few bad apples, and now they're gone. We've got a clean slate!")A few days ago, internet liberals got all excited because Biden made some vague hypothetical comments somewhere about pursuing criminal investigations. A few days after that, Biden rushed to Fox News to correct the record on this matter:
Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends raised that issue with Biden on Thursday morning, asking about "a report that if you guys are elected ... you're actually going to pursue criminal charges against President Bush's administration and different people that served there."But internet liberals will ignore this, or somehow convince themselves that Obama/Biden just had to say that for political reasons, but really in their hearts they want to prosecute, and we'll see that once they get elected. If Obama gets elected, this will also be proven wrong, but McCain is going to win now anyway so they'll forget all of this.
"That's not true," Biden immediately replied. "I don't know where that report's coming from. What is true is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by anyone. Anybody should be doing that."
Biden emphasized that "no one's talking about President Bush. ... I've never heard anybody mention President Bush in that context." He noted that "there's been an awful lot of unsavory stuff that's gone on ... but I have no evidence of any of that. No one's talking about pursuing President Bush criminally."
Biden concluded his comments by explaining that possible misdeeds are
"being looked into now, just so it never happens again in any other administration. ... The Obama-Biden administration is not going to start off saying, 'God, let's go take a look at what this --.' The American people want to know what we're going to do, not what happened."
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Double-banned?! Sounds painful.
You have never been banned from Neon Gods. It just got to the point where I found your comments were getting personal and even insulting. Insulting because you assumed liberals like me were too stupid to see that you and the blogs you link to are right and everyone else is wrong.
If you read the liberal blogs you certainly know we are very aware of how fucked up our government is. You certainly realize that our anger and frustration with the Democratic Party has been growing exponentially. We are just as angry and frustrated as you, we just don't share the same solution. I find your solution unworkable and you believe our (liberals) solution(s) are naive and useless. So there we have it. We reached an impass and I didn't see any benefit in continuing the dialogue.
Are you saying that comments containing the kind of point expressed in this post would be welcome at Neon Gods?
Do you care to address any of the points made here?
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