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Clinton's Cronies

11.20.08 @ 6:01AM

HOLDER AND VIGNALI
Re: The Prowler's Beg Your Pardongate:

I see the Prowler is reporting Holder urging Obama to include Mayorkas on his transition. Here is possibly the most detailed account you will find of Pardongate as it pertained to convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali, and Alejandro Mayorkas' role in a grant of clemency by President Clinton. By definition, Holder would have had to approve that grant (which Mayorkas lobbied for), just as he approved the pardon for Marc Rich.
-- Jeffrey Anderson
Baltimore City Paper (formerly of LA Weekly)

BIG ASSUMPTIONS
Re: Enemy Central's Keep the Change:

The Clinton staffer that won't be invited back to the White House is Ms. Lewinsky. The American taxpayer will assume the position directly for President Obama.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Let's assume that Obama has placed this reality as his most important when picking those who will work at his right side: The candidate must "worship" Obama, must think Obama is in fact the "savior" our country needs so badly. I refer the reader to the recent movie "3:10 to Yuma," starring Russell Crowe et al. Note his immediate cohort in crime...the guy damn near steals the show, especially in his allegiance and meanness to all those who resist the will of his boss!

Imagine how the women in Obama's life greet him when he comes home from work.  They adore him.  His mother adored him, grandmother too. The guy just loves to be adored! What happens when this adoration ceases? Or when another force comes into the picture diverting the supplicant from his duties?

Why, he gets the wrath of Obama. You don't mess with Mr. Cool. 

Now there are some really tough streets in Chicago where one looks all around as he struts his stuff walking. I don't know if Mr. Cool ever walked such streets alone. I do know on the world stage there are some really tough guys who just for chuckles like to smash the faces of those who get close enough. 

What happens when the pretty face of Obama gets touched? Do we need to watch him play a pickup game of basketball to get an idea? Or will it show up when he tries to vote "present" for some important item?

Will he invoke the wrath of a god to those who trespass against "his will" or "vision" like I imagine he will? Will this Shakespeare of politics wannabe terminate all with his sweet words of condemnation? 

Note the dead bodies at the end of "3:10 to Yuma." Crowe gets on the train...alone!  Good guys and bad guys lay dead all around.

Is it time to ask Michael Corleone for his perspective? How about Alexander the Great?  Judah Ben Hur?   

The show is about to start, please be seated...and turn off your cellphones...or else!
-- R. Philips
Corrales, New Mexico

SPEAK OUT NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Offensive Conservatives: 

I must disagree with Ms. Fabrizio about the Catholic Bishops closing the Catholic hospitals if they are required to perform abortions. There is a priest in South Carolina who spoke out against Catholic citizens who voted for Obama thereby tacitly supporting Obama's stand on abortion -- in addition to supporting abortion itself. The priest went further and said that those Catholics should seek absolution for their sin. What happened?

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