Posted on 06/27/2012 10:19:09 AM PDT by MindBender26
Obama made a very serious mistake in invoking the issue of Executive Privilege in the F&F matter.
First, he has now made Holder's problems his problem. Why would he do that unless there was some smoking gun memo that involved Obama personally? Is his ego so big that he thinks that simply his "presence" will remedy the situation. If so, I would remind him of how successful he was in bringing the Olympic Games to Chicago.
But even if he prevails legally, which he probably will not, the public has already made up its mind.
The concept is simple: Why try to hide something, if there is nothing to hide.
It’s very much like what a judge once said about an accused invoking 5th Amendment protections in court:
“1: The person exercising their rights under the 5th Amendment has the absolute Constitutional right to do so.
2: The jury will be instructed as to that right and told that they must not, in any way, hold the exercising of that right against the person doing so.
3: Back in the jury room, regardless of the instruction shown in #2, most jury members thinking someone “taking the 5th” is guilty as hell, otherwise, why not answer the questions?!?!”
So it it with Obama. Regardless of whether or not the claim of Executive Privilege is upheld, most Americans already think Obama has something to hide.
That means he has already lost.
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Such an insane move would set off the Second American Revolution.
Forget about the gutless Congress or the partisan Supreme Court taking action. We The People would form the new government on our own, after the shooting quiets down.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/09/deputy-murder-linked-to-nh-couples-death-in-arizona/
Issa also has a problem in that he can’t use the information he has without exposing his sources.
That’s why the subpoenas and why they have been kept as general as possible.
Let’s take a public poll. “Do you know what “Fast and Furious” is?
90% will say it is a new reality show.
“”it is now up to Obama to step up to the plate and take transitional power (until a new government can be created) as envisioned by the founders - ( it is the right of the people to throw off that government which has been found illegitimate or defective) (pp)””
You are speaking of the Declaration of Independence and it’s surely NOT obozo who needs to take action. It’s clearly the people.
What the Declaration of Independence had to say with their words directed at King George of GB:
“”it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.””
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Further on - speaking of King George:
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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I remember so well this argument being put forth during the 1960’s - especially by Dick Gregory and other rabble rousers screaming - IT IS OUR DUTY!!!!
Do we not have the same conditions today as faced by the colonialists?
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