Comments on: Stunning al-Haramain Filing Shames Obama; Shows Duplicity Of Officials

By: greenharper

greenharper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:26:02 +0000

“No. The issue here which jumped out at me immediately upon reading this was: here you have a Constitutional Scholar, a professor of Constitutional law, saying

… impeachment should not be used as a standard political tool.

“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and intentional breaches of the president’s authority,” [Obama] said.

Odd. I’d never noticed that the Constitution made ‘breach of the president’s authority,’ whatever that may mean, a high crime or misdemeanor.

By: fatster

fatster — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Bob, may I join since I already made my donation (a couple or three days ago, I believe), or do I have to make another one in order to join (tight month, unanticipated dental expenses and blahblahblah)? Thnx.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:22:25 +0000

And with all the efforts Obama has made on issues like the one in this post, what is not to love?

Oh, yeah, bad example. Maybe you were talking about something with which I am not aware he “is working his ass off” on….

By: whyknot

whyknot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:06:44 +0000

Was that you at the Palin rallies last fall? The real Barack Obama is working his ass off, with the left attacking him nearly as often as the right. Nothing better to do?

By: TheraP

TheraP — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:51:36 +0000

Thank you, bmaz (and EW of course), for staying on this!

I realize I have nothing to add to this thread. But every voice counts!

Kudos! Money well spent!

By: flyarm616

flyarm616 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:28:05 +0000

Don’t count on that! KO is in the bag for Obama big time..he has invested all in Obama!

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:09:58 +0000

Yeah, but on this issue that just is not the case. Not even close.

By: perris

perris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:50:12 +0000

for nell@147;

kay in main is no troll, she is a strong supporter of obama and is disturbed we are not giving him a chance

I understand her opinion and respect it, I am hoping she is right and we are wrong

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:56:40 +0000

[Way, way later]

Actually, “breach” as like the overtopping of a defense by an attacker, so the thing breached is the thing violated.

Then, that phrase reads to me as though the impeachable offense would be something that goes against “presidential authority” —that breaches it— and not breaches of the consitututional or other laws that circumscribe it.

So sensibly, only non-presidents could impeachably breach presidential authority. Now, it’s possible that I’m construing incorrectly or if not, that our president, speaking on the fly, just made a little goof. I won’t hold him to it. But it was said.

By: GrievanceProject

GrievanceProject — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:27:03 +0000

Amazing how many dumbshit criminals actually show up for that stuff.

If stupidity was a valid defense, we wouldn’t have jail overcrowding. (On the other hand, we wouldn’t have jail overcrowding if we just ended this ridiculous ‘War on Drugs.’)