Posted on 06/14/2008 11:13:26 AM PDT by joeclarke
The best predictor of a heart attack is the recognition of a previous attack; the first one is always stealthy.
Uh, Conservatives have more class and they aren’t afraid to show it?
of course a heart attack... diabetics are prone to many deadly ailments because they are diabetics.
Why did you read it? Enjoy it, did you?
Jim Webb also wrote a "novel" with pedophilic passages. He is also a sick freak like Libby.
Search engines are your friends.
Libby, or someone else in the administration would have been lynched for something anyway.
A perjury conviction requires that there be an underlying illegal act for the accused to lie his way out of. The alleged “illegal act” was the outing of a covert agent. According to the lady who drafted the relevant law, Valerie Plame did not fit the legal definition of a covert agent. Since Plame was not a covert agent there was no “crime”. So Libby could not have committed perjury even if he had deliberately lied, which is very doubtful.
The prosecutor knew even before the trial started that Richard Armitage was the “leaker” and not Libby. But Armitage was a “good guy” because he opposed the Iraq war and left the state department. And he stood there silent and watched Libby’s life get ruined. A real class act.
We had a partisan prosecutor (who was recommended for the job by a Clinton holdover in the Justice Dept.), an activist judge, and therefore an uninformed jury. So Libby was found guilty of something he didn’t do and wasn’t even a crime anyway. Good Job! In military parlance I think that would qualify as a “cluster f**k”..
Compassion is best spent in a personal touch to the guy down the street.
Those who think it praiseworthy to extend "compassion" to a liberal celebrity is silly.
I don't hate those who disagree. But I don't automatically respect them them either.
Why respect someone who is promoting a liberal agenda which damages millions of people's lives? That's Kumbaya-thinking.
From what I have read, Woodwards statement on the conversation that he had with Libby comported pretty much exactly with what Libby stated his conversation with Russert was.
Tim Russert died 30 minutes after eating the box of chocolates that Hillary sent, thanking him for declaring Obama the nominee before half the primaries were held.
You are correct.
Paul Newman is no sweetheart. He was very active in trying to get Eugene McCarthy into the White House.
He worked very hard against our soldiers and the cause of freedom during Vietnam and never repented from it. Far from it. He continues to work for gun control to this day.
Yet he has blue eyes, don't you know and because he's not as loud as Alec Baldwin (but in fact has given millions more to liberal causes) conservatives can't seem to say a bad word about him.
I like some of his movies; I don't like the man himself.
True!
LOL! I couldn't believe the mods on those threads.
A few years ago there would have been hallelujahs sung here that Kennedy was finally going to be removed from the Senate.
But here on FR a few weeks ago you weren't allowed to say a word against one of the most liberal Senators ever.
So strange!
The largest employer in Louisiana is the state. As a candidate for governor, Duke certainly should have known that.
It wasn’t really Russert. Libby misremembered. His notes said Woodward, but he IDd Russert.
No, kidding.
Irrelevant: no one else has been asked factual type questions on an interview program to my knowledge. I don’t recall the specific questions asked of Duke.
Is the largest employer the state? I see, no single private employer has as many workers as state government. But fewer than, what, 8 percent work for the state?
Andrea Mitchell commented, on CNBC on October 3, 2003, that Valerie Plame's employment as a CIA agent was "widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. So a number of us began to pick up on that."
This matched Libby's account. Libby, you'll recall, contended that he learned of Plame's status from Russert. Russert was Mitchell's boss.
The fact that Libby contended he'd learned of Plame from Russert while Russert denied it was the core of the perjury case against Libby.
On the witness stand, Russert denied any knowledge of Plame.He stated that it was "impossible" for Libby to have learned of Plame from him. He was somehow oblivious of that which his employee, Mitchell, said was "widely known" by people like him.His testimony convicted Libby.
With Russert gone, Libby will stay convicted. Bush should grant him a full pardon. (To date, he has commuted Libby's prison sentence.)
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