Comments on: The Goldwaters Endorse Obama http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108906 Leen Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:59:35 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108906 <p>I keep looking at the Canadian map</p> I keep looking at the Canadian map

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108905 Leen Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:57:59 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108905 <p>“moving ahead does require looking back” And holding individuals who committed very serious crimes ACCOUNTABLE. I have spent my whole life as a blue collar working folk. Most of us are brought up on pull yourself up by your boot straps, pay your way, take responsibility for your mistakes yada yada. For eight years we have witnessed an administration run wild over the Constitution, break laws, send individuals to war based on a “pack of lies” torture, undermine the Dept of Justice, manipulate elections, illegally wiretap etc etc. </p> <p>I demand that the same standards of the law be applied to them as would be applied to the working folks out here. Is that too much to ask?</p> “moving ahead does require looking back” And holding individuals who committed very serious crimes ACCOUNTABLE. I have spent my whole life as a blue collar working folk. Most of us are brought up on pull yourself up by your boot straps, pay your way, take responsibility for your mistakes yada yada. For eight years we have witnessed an administration run wild over the Constitution, break laws, send individuals to war based on a “pack of lies” torture, undermine the Dept of Justice, manipulate elections, illegally wiretap etc etc.

I demand that the same standards of the law be applied to them as would be applied to the working folks out here. Is that too much to ask?

]]> By: Neil http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108891 Neil Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:06:08 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108891 <p>BMAZ - John’s brother Joe has some patience and entitlement issues too. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6_s3O5Bj0" rel="nofollow">Video </a></p> BMAZ – John’s brother Joe has some patience and entitlement issues too. Video

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108883 bmaz Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:00:33 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108883 <p>Yeah, you guys just love all the gazillions of invading Zonies. Uh huh. Crikey, they annoy even me when I’m over there; they must drive you nuts.</p> Yeah, you guys just love all the gazillions of invading Zonies. Uh huh. Crikey, they annoy even me when I’m over there; they must drive you nuts.

]]> By: randiego http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108882 randiego Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:52:02 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108882 <p>Great post brother. I’m really enjoying the education on Arizona. It will really help when y’all come to visit next summer.</p> <p>Dugg.</p> Great post brother. I’m really enjoying the education on Arizona. It will really help when y’all come to visit next summer.

Dugg.

]]> By: freepatriot http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108880 freepatriot Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:46:13 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108880 <p>did anybody else see Michigan get BOUNCED on SNL ???</p> did anybody else see Michigan get BOUNCED on SNL ???

]]> By: Neil http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108877 Neil Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:49:29 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108877 <p>Rachel Maddow gives <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjz1YCCNusc" rel="nofollow"><strong>a shout out to registered voters in Michigan</strong> </a>.</p> Rachel Maddow gives a shout out to registered voters in Michigan .

]]> By: MadDog http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108871 MadDog Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:47:47 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108871 <p>More totally OT - Another OLC opinion surfaces where acting head of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Steven Bradbury sees things that are not there and doesn’t see the things that are there:</p> <p><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2008/privacy-officer-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">Constitutionality Of Direct Reporting Requirement In Section 802(E)(1) Of The Implementing Recommendations Of The 9/11 Commission Act Of 2007</a></p> <p>My summary - Congress legislated that:</p> <blockquote><p>…that the Chief Privacy Officer (”CPO”) of the Department of Homeland Security (”DHS” or “the Department”) must submit reports “directly to the Congress . . . without any prior comment or amendment by the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or any other officer or employee of the Department or of the Office of Management and Budget”…</p></blockquote> <p>Why might this all be important you ask? Because the Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Privacy Officer is legislatively tasked to:</p> <blockquote><p>As provided in section 802, the CPO is responsible for investigating and ensuring departmental compliance with federal privacy laws and programs, and has policymaking authority over departmental policies as well as regulatory and legislative proposals for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the federal Government generally.</p></blockquote> <p>You know, stuff like whether everyday normal American folks are included on Terrorist Watch Lists, Warrantless Surveillance. </p> <p>Stuff like whether rumors, misinformation, out-and-out inaccurate information on everyday normal American folks are hoovered up into US Government databases.</p> <p>And the gist of Bradbury’s opinion? Congress can’t prevent the Unitary Executive from re-writing the report from this supposedly <i>“independent”</i> Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security who has been legislatively mandated to report <i><b>directly</b></i> to Congress on any DHS privacy crimes and violations.</p> <p>Guess we’re all surprised. NOT!</p> More totally OT – Another OLC opinion surfaces where acting head of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel Steven Bradbury sees things that are not there and doesn’t see the things that are there:

Constitutionality Of Direct Reporting Requirement In Section 802(E)(1) Of The Implementing Recommendations Of The 9/11 Commission Act Of 2007

My summary – Congress legislated that:

…that the Chief Privacy Officer (”CPO”) of the Department of Homeland Security (”DHS” or “the Department”) must submit reports “directly to the Congress . . . without any prior comment or amendment by the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or any other officer or employee of the Department or of the Office of Management and Budget”…

Why might this all be important you ask? Because the Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Privacy Officer is legislatively tasked to:

As provided in section 802, the CPO is responsible for investigating and ensuring departmental compliance with federal privacy laws and programs, and has policymaking authority over departmental policies as well as regulatory and legislative proposals for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by the federal Government generally.

You know, stuff like whether everyday normal American folks are included on Terrorist Watch Lists, Warrantless Surveillance.

Stuff like whether rumors, misinformation, out-and-out inaccurate information on everyday normal American folks are hoovered up into US Government databases.

And the gist of Bradbury’s opinion? Congress can’t prevent the Unitary Executive from re-writing the report from this supposedly “independent” Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security who has been legislatively mandated to report directly to Congress on any DHS privacy crimes and violations.

Guess we’re all surprised. NOT!

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108869 earlofhuntingdon Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:31:44 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108869 <p>As much as Obama doesn’t want to inquire into the mess that is the DOJ, my hope is that his HLR Editor-in-Chief past, and his law school peers who went into criminal law, will haunt him into purging the DOJ of its worst politicos, its worst new policies, its worst excesses and omissions of judgment. </p> <p>The DOJ really is the tool shed from which Bush’s faithful took the legal shovels that buried the bodies, and the legal switches that turned on the virtual switches used to spy on ourselves. At a minimum, Obama must have a few personal choices for the top slots, including the OLC (his choices may even include someone from Yale) and they will have the stomach to look at what crawls out from under the Rovian stones and rotted wood now littering its shelves.</p> As much as Obama doesn’t want to inquire into the mess that is the DOJ, my hope is that his HLR Editor-in-Chief past, and his law school peers who went into criminal law, will haunt him into purging the DOJ of its worst politicos, its worst new policies, its worst excesses and omissions of judgment.

The DOJ really is the tool shed from which Bush’s faithful took the legal shovels that buried the bodies, and the legal switches that turned on the virtual switches used to spy on ourselves. At a minimum, Obama must have a few personal choices for the top slots, including the OLC (his choices may even include someone from Yale) and they will have the stomach to look at what crawls out from under the Rovian stones and rotted wood now littering its shelves.

]]> By: DWBartoo http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108868 DWBartoo Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:26:35 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/23/the-goldwaters-endorse-obama/#comment-108868 <p>My thanks then, Mary, to chetnolian for the ‘tip’ and to you for the linkerage and considered commentary.</p> <p>:~D</p> My thanks then, Mary, to chetnolian for the ‘tip’ and to you for the linkerage and considered commentary.

:~D

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