Comments on: Of Criminals & Presidents

By: Tully

Tully — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:07:30 +0000

Even if I were willing to buy that (and I’m not) then you are at best running with someone else’s assertions without verifying them or even attempting to verify them. Which brings me back to my point…namely that people are eager to conflate policies and actions they disagree with or don’t like with criminality.

REGARDLESS OF THE FACTS. I guess truth and inquiry and such all take a back seat.

By: Jay_C

Jay_C — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:13:28 +0000

No, sorrry, I disagree. To me It sounds to me like he downplaying the word "crimes" and repackaging it calling them moral and legal "compromises". Similar to someone saying"I didn’t steal from the store, I borrowed the item for an inderterminate amount of time and haven’t returned it yet"

By: Tully

Tully — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:07:09 +0000

Jay_C, he clearly said it was a moral or legal compromise, not that it was a crime. YOU said it was a crime.

But I believe I made my point. Namely that people are eager to conflate policies and actions they disagree with or don’t like with criminality.

By: utsu

utsu — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:15:19 +0000

If you were a criminal president, you would be president as we speak. No, I do not have to make a more thought-out comment to a post like this.

By: Jay_C

Jay_C — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:06:09 +0000

I am going off the author’ assertions…hence the "even if".
I don’t want to get banned for misquoting, but I beleive the author said:

"The telecom immunity issue is one of the lesser of these" ("these" meaning crimes) If I am wrong, I stand corrected, what do you think the author was he implying by using the word "these"

By: Tully

Tully — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:49:10 +0000

but even if this is a lesser crime, it is a crime

How so? Cite the statute and authority, please.

By: Jay_C

Jay_C — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:38:48 +0000

"The telecom immunity issue is one of the lesser of these. Democrats persist in whining about this triviality because they have nothing else to do."

I don’t think you should change the subject(The Clintons) when what he writes is specific in it’s implication of Bush. I don’t agree with you, but even if this is a lesser crime, it is a crime. That would be like me getting caught stealing in a store, but point out to the police that I saw someone else do something worse once, so they should let this slide.

By: sashal

sashal — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:14:26 +0000

admin: post a personal attack like that again and you are banned, sashal