Posted on 12/21/2008 9:40:37 AM PST by nysuperdoodle
AWE! That explains it! Little professional jealousy?
LOL !
Is it not more correct to describe Rahm as Bama's present trick specialist. I do not recall Rahm doing anything but pulling out the rug from under the Clintons this election go round. And Ken Lay was far more financially connect to the Clintons then ever to George Bush but that did not stop the media from necklacing President Bush with Lay corruption.
If he's still a Congressman, he has followed the old adage: "don't give up your day job."
Rahm has the short man syndrome. He doesn’t strike me as someone who would go down to cover for someone else.
OTOH Someone was wearing a wire.
WIth all or BO middle east friends, Rahm-E has the most to loose with his connections to Isreal.
Maybe Fitz pulled out so soon not to protect BO, but to protect Rat-ta-tat Rahm-E his mole.
We shall see....
With a little luck Rahm-E will throw BOunder the bus. Remember his first relationship was with Hill/Billy.
Goin home with the one that brung ya!
Patrick Fitzgerald knew Armitage "leaked" Valerie Plame's name before he began a two year investigation but never went anywhere near Armitage. He also could have confirmed that Plame was not a covert agent, protected by law, with one phone call to the CIA. Finally he gets one conviction on Scooter Libby on perjury for not accurately remembering an old conversation. IMO Fitzgerald's conduct was criminal and he belongs in prison for it. At the very least it shows that he had no interest at all in finding out who "leaked" Plame's name and didn't care that no law was broken in "leaking" it.His conduct so far in the Blago case is equally suspect. Fitzgerald claims his motivation for going public and filing charges now was to stop Blago from corruptly seating a US Senator. That doesn't pass the smell test. If Fitzy had the solid evidence of a wiretap detailing such a deal it isn't at all likely that Blago's pick would stand. The public would demand his pay-to-play pick be tossed regardless of whether IL law had a mechanism to dethrone him/her. I'm betting it does have the means to do that anyway.
It also makes no sense that one of the nation's top prosecutors would undermine his own case by making over the top personal statements about the subject of his investigation in his public announcement. Numerous legal experts have commented on how unethical that was and it's not believable that Fitzy was unaware that he was doing that. He virtually handed the defense cause to have the case dismissed the minute he takes it to court. Once again it seems Fitzgerald has no interest in convicting the supposed subject of his investigation.
Sound ethical or legal to you?
It has been my opinion from the beginning that this is a charade. We are seeing the choreography worked out as we watch....Things are not as they seem. In fact it may not be BO that FItz was protecting but his under cover mole.
Stop it before the “rat” did anything illegal. Sure don't think THAT was BO.
All I do know for sure about it is that much more popcorn will be needed.
OR: He thought if be closed up shop earlier, he wouldn't have been able to say...."Hey I turned over every rock, looked under every tree....This is all I found....Nothing is there.
I feel sorry for Scooter, but IMO he should have taken the investigation more seriously,not answered off the top of his head, been better organized and stuck to his notes...
Or at least pull a Hillary and say "I don't recall.
That is not FItz fault. It's Scooters.Bush's.
The Clintons have escaped.
The Kennedys have escaped.
Barney Frank will escape.
Sen. Reid will escape.
Dobbs will escape.
The officers of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac will escape.
Congressmen Charles Rangel of Harlem and William Jefferson of New Orleans will escape.
Pelosi will escape.
Boxer will escape.
Durbin will escape.
Robert Rubin, the genius who convinced Citi Group to take on more sub-prime risk will escape....
Rahm Israel Emanuel will escape...even though caught on tape.
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr will escape.
I could go on, but you get my drift, and hopefully see a pattern....
Justice is blind to certain categories of citizens.....
“All anim.als are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
Colt manufactured the "Peacemaker" and "Equalizer".
It may become the final option for the mess we're in, which is becoming more and more unlikely we can get out of peacefully.
There’s a lot of unknowns here. While I suspect that they’ll all get away with it, it’s something to hope for
The bottom of Lake Michigan is quite cold these days...
It’s not Fitz’s fault that he conducted a two year investigation of a non-crime knowing who the “leaker” was before he started and never bothered to look in his direction at all? OK.
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