What they have done and gotten away with is vertigo inducing. Surely, this man whose inauguration on Tuesday represents a watershed event and whose campaign has promised change so incessantly, he will make right what has been so monstrously and blatantly wrong.
Right?
"We have not made final decisions, but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure we're moving forward, we are doing the right thing. That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law that they are above the law, but my orientation is going to be moving forward," Obama on ABC 1/11/09 Raw Story
I don’t like the way that sounds, do you?
It sounds like what Clinton said when he declined to investigate the crimes committed by George H.W. Bush, what George H.W. Bush did when he pardoned Reagan for Iran-Contra, and what Ford asserted when he pardoned Nixon.
These past presidents all declared that the national “healing” should begin, that “partisanship” and “division” were to be avoided at all costs, and that we needed as a nation to “look forward.”
As Robert Parry writes:
“Clinton wrote in his 2004 memoir, My Life:
“’I wanted the country to be more united, not more divided, even if that split would be to my political advantage,’ Clinton wrote. ‘Finally, President Bush had given decades of service to our country, and I thought we should allow him to retire in peace, leaving the matter between him and his conscience.’” [See Bill Clinton, My Life, p. 457]
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