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“Obama, after using Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta to fill his administration with Clinton administration DLC DINOs, has followed in Clinton’s footsteps, failing to prosecute a former president Bush for the horrific crimes he committed.”
The establishment approves. Note the lead para in this report from the L.A. Times filed by Mark Silva on Jan. 16: “Reporting from Washington — Three presidents from opposing parties stood united outside the White House this morning to signal the launch of an aggressive private fundraising drive for the earthquake-stricken nation of Haiti. “These two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and the world,” Obama said of the former presidents flanking him in the Rose Garden. “In a moment of need, the United States stands united.” Yeah. Right. More escapist photo ops and misleading theater from these professional liars. (Eds.)
By Rob Kall, Editor, OpedNews [print_link]
OBAMA AND CLINTON , book-ending the war and constitutional criminal Bush, giving him respectability, even honor, as Clinton and Bush are announced as jointly working to help Haitians. It’s a good cause, but ends up conferring respectability upon a man who should be treated as a pariah.
It’s just about a year. Obama, after using Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta to fill his administration with Clinton administration DLC DINOs, has followed in Clinton’s footsteps, failing to prosecute a former president Bush for the horrific crimes he committed. Clinton let Herbert Walker Bush get away with his criminal role in the Iran Contra Affair. If Clinton had allowed investigations of Bush senior to proceed, the Bush name would have been irredeemably tainted and the US and the world would never have suffered the infliction of George W. Bush upon us.
Now, Obama not only fails to prosecute Bush, who should have been impeached, but for the infamy of Nancy Pelosi, but he honors and glorifies Dubya, sharing the podium with him.
No wonder there are so many Americans ready to repudiate the Democrats for their failures– failures to prosecute criminal politicians, failure to fire and prosecute Bush appointees in the Justice Department guilty of gross prosecutorial misconduct.
These are massive errors of judgment combined with cowardice– fear of being skewered by FOX news for doing the right thing. They are errors of judgment because, if investigations and prosecutions were instituted, the right wing assault on the Democrats might have been blunted or deflected as the GOP defended its own. Instead, the Democrats have a wide open flank that is being attacked by right wingers who have not been, in any way, held accountable for all the wrongs that were perpetrated under their watch.
I imagine it will not be long before Obama gives Bush some sort of official honor as well.
For shame!!
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), and President of Futurehealth, Inc.