Thursday, July 05, 2007

Clinton hypocrisy

Much as I cringe at the idea of agreeing with anything the Bush administration claims ever, I do think there's a degree of hypocrisy in either of the Clintons criticizing Libby's pardon. Yes, there's a big difference between pardoning a guy lying to investigators to protect a breach of national security and pardoning a sleazy friend of yours engaged in some shady financial deals, but still...either justice applies even to the friends of the powerful or it doesn't. Pardons, like impeachments, shouldn't be handed out like "lollipops" (as the duplicitous douchebag Romney so eloquently put it).

Of course, I don't understand why this is a _defense_ of Bush's pardon of Libby. It's a good but ultimately irrelevant point.

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