Obama Campaigns for Martha <strike>Nifong</strike> Coakley

Israpundit ^ | 1/15/10 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

Obama supports former prosecutor who kept innocent man in prison to advance her political career

Barack Obama demonstrated his true level of character, ethnics, and integrity when he announced his decision to campaign for Martha Coakley: Massachusetts' counterpart of Mike Nifong. Nifong, Coakley, Scott Harshbarger and Janet Reno all built or advanced their careers by prosecuting people (Durham lacrosse players, the Amiraults, and Grant Snowden) whom they knew or should have known were innocent, although Nifong was the only one who was actually found guilty of misconduct. Even in Nifong's case, which involved his concealment of exculpatory evidence, the only punishment consisted of an end to his career as an attorney. Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal tells us everything we need to know about Martha Coakley, our century's counterpart of the self-serving witch-finders who operated in colonial Massachusetts.

What does this say about her candidacy? (Ms. Coakley declined to be interviewed.) If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat. It is little short of wonderful to hear now of Ms. Coakley's concern for the rights of terror suspects at Guantanamo—her urgent call for the protection of the right to the presumption of innocence.

[kabar]

I wonder who SGT Crowley is endorsing.