BTW: I wouldn't advocate pressing an absurd civil case against Bush primarily to get him to lie about his seemingly likely past cocaine use, and if he did lie, I wouldn't want to see him impeached. My counterfactual hope would mirror my actual hope: that the voters boot him out of office
Oh dear, Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dawson" <MDawson at pdx.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] MoveOn v. Bush
> Intentional deception while testifying under oath is perjury. Perjury is
a
> felony, as it should be. Clinton, a sitting president and a lawyer, did
it.
> Committing a felony while President of the United States should get you
> evicted every time. Ah, but then you're MoveOn comrades killed the main
> institution for policing this. Under their system, Nixon would've been
> allowed to "MoveOn." What's a little debate notebook theft in an election
> that was a landslide anyway? "MoveOn."
>
> As to the "broaching" of the lawsuit, that's irrelevant to whether Clinton
> committed perjury.
>
> Oh dear. You think committing perjury is OK, if you like the perjurer's
> politics. Oh dear. You don't believe in the rule of law. Oh dear. You
> like Bill Clinton. Oh dear. You can't see your own hypocrisy. If Bush
had
> committed perjury while in office, you'd be sleeping in front of the White
> House with your fellow MoveOn rail-greasers. Oh dear.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Luke Weiger
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:10 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] MoveOn v. Bush
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dawson" <MDawson at pdx.edu>
>
> > MoveOn.org stinks, stinks, stinks. The gulf between what they advertise
> > themselves as doing and what they actually do is wider than any other
> > political group since the UJA flew down to liberate San Marcos (and at
> least
> > the UJA admitted what they went down for). Hell, look at the name --
this
> > pathetic travesty of a social movement group is named after the
principle
> > they first arose to stand for -- "If you like somebody's politics, then
> they
> > get to commit perjury while in office."
>
> Oh dear. You think providing misleading testimony during a civil trial on
> an issue that ought not even have been broached constitutes an impeachable
> offense? Why? Because Christopher Hitchens and his erstwhile pal Ralph
> Nader said so?
>
> -- Luke
>
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