Comments on: Clinton and Executive Power

By: Billy Beck

Billy Beck — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:33:21 +0000

During the Nixon administration, my father told me, “Son, if you don’t like this president, wait’ll you see the next one.”

That man was never wrong for the rest of his life.

This next election is going to be a disaster, no matter who wins.

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:12:42 +0000

js290,

I used to say the same thing about Dubya in regards to the first Clinton. Never underestimate the ability of a politician to be worse than their predecessor.

By: js290

js290 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:39:31 +0000

I am very sure that you have absolutely no serious idea in the world what you’re dealing with in her.

She can’t be worse than Dubya…

By: Billy Beck

Billy Beck — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:14:44 +0000

"I myself don’t have a much confidence in Ms. Clinton, but I’m prepared to listen to her. She has stated that she will discard some of the powers that Mr. Bush has asserted." Look, Chepe: you're talking about a person whose lieutenant Ira Magaziner filed a willfully false affidavit in the Health Care Task Force working-groups federal lawsuit, and then who told a White House deputy counsel to "Just fix it, Vince!" I am very sure that you have absolutely no serious idea in the world what you're dealing with in her.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:11:43 +0000

To Whomever wins the upcoming election,

Hail Caesar!!!

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:12:54 +0000

She has stated that she will discard some of the powers that Mr. Bush has asserted.

History says that she is not sincere.

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:11:19 +0000

We just don’t believe her, Chepe. She’s just saying what’s politically expedient. She’ll probably make a big to-do about yielding a few powers and then usurp two dozen more. Nothing about her record, especially her votes in the Senate, indicate that she actually cares about a Constitutional separation of powers.

By: George Orwell

George Orwell — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:08:29 +0000

Clinton is just more of the same…you’d think hawkish conservatives would love her as much as they love Rudy Giuliani.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved using doublethink

By: Chepe Noyon

Chepe Noyon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:08:09 +0000

It sounds to me as if you’re more interested in bashing Ms. Clinton that considering Constitutional problems. I myself don’t have a much confidence in Ms. Clinton, but I’m prepared to listen to her. She has stated that she will discard some of the powers that Mr. Bush has asserted. You seem ready to condemn her because she has not committed to discarding all of the powers Mr. Bush claims. I agree that her actions may not go far enough, but at least she seems to be pointed in the right direction? Mr. Paul is clearly way ahead of Ms. Clinton on this point, but she is also ahead of any of the other Republican candidates, wouldn’t you agree?