Political Jackass

It’s funny how when it’s not your candidate that’s running they have no experience. Governors for only a couple years don’t have the experience to lead. The only reason they would be picked is to help secure some demographic. When it’s your candidate that picks an inexperienced governor it’s being a Maverick. And they have more experience than anyone else. And they know how to lead. The Republicans can’t make up their mind. Take a look at this video from The Daily Show showing Karl Rove flip-flop on the issues of experience.

Tim Kaine doesn’t have the experience to lead. He’s only been a governor for 3 years. Oh wait, Sarah Palin can lead. She’s been governor for a whole 20 months! Yeah right. Give me a break guys. By the way, from DailyKos,

By the way, in that clip, Rove calls Wasilla Alaska’s 2nd largest city. Based on current estimated population, that would actually be Fairbanks … at 31,142. Juneau comes third at 30,737. Wasilla is fourth, believe it or not, at 9,236 today. When she was mayor, it had a population of 5,469.

Richmond, VA, which Rove mocked earlier when he was taking aim at Tim Kaine, has a population of 200,123.

I think we all heard about the three men that were caught plotting to assassinate Barack Obama in Denver.  Well, it seems the FBI wanted to toughen the charges against the men to a charge of conspiracy but again, BushCo partisan politics stands in the way of justice.  A Karl Rove appointee turned down the increase of charges.  This is so sad.

KUSA – 9Wants to Know has learned three men in Denver planned to assassinate U.S. Senator Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention in Denver by sneaking into one of his events and shooting him with a gun hidden inside of a camera, according to federal court records.

Nathan Johnson’s girlfriend, whom 9NEWS is not naming because she’s a juvenile, said it would have to be a suicide mission.

The plot is similar to that in the 1992 movie “The Bodyguard” starring actors Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. In the movie, Costner stops an assassination attempt against Houston by spotting a weapon hidden inside a gutted-out TV camera.

Johnson, Shawn Adolf and Tharin Gartrell all thought that Obama had a suite in the third floor of the Hyatt hotel, where they were staying. In fact, the Senator was staying in another Denver Hotel.

The men were doing methamphetamine inside the hotel with two women on Aug. 23 discussing the plot to kill Obama, according to federal records.

Adolf said “it would not matter if he killed Senator Obama because police would simply add a murder charge to his pending charges,” according to the records. There were seven outstanding warrants for Adolf’s arrest.

The underage woman told law enforcement that Adolf also talked about using “a high-powered rifle 22-250 from a high vantage point” to shoot Senator Obama during his acceptance speech at INVESCO Field at Mile High during the DNC…

When police searched the hotel rooms and cars the men were using, they confiscated meth, needles, laptops, cell phones, a black mask, books indicating check fraud and forgery, bags of new clothes, tactical pants and bar coupons.

Based on the evidence, FBI special agent Robert Sawyer believed there was probable cause to charge the men with conspiracy to kill Senator Obama. However, US Attorney Troy Eid last week said there is insufficient evidence to indicate a true threat, plot or conspiracy against the senator.

These guys were planning to carry out an assassination.  When you have more than 1 person, you have a conspiracy to commit a crime.  Why aren’t the proper charges being applied here?  They have some nerve to say that there was insufficient evidence to indicate a true threat.  The FBI has testimony indicating they were planning on shooting Obama.  For BushCo, crimes against Democrats aren’t crimes.  This isn’t the United States of America, it’s the United States of the Far Right.  I hope no one commits a crime against you, because you never know, they might not care about you if you don’t share the same beliefs.  Whatever happened to our pluralist society?

From ThinkProgress:

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame scandal:

“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

“There was one problem. It was not true.

“I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the president himself.”

McClellan, who orchestrated the White House’s stonewalling of the investigation into the leak, later said he was lied to by those directly involved.

A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency “is effectively over” unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.

“The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the American people and the presidency,” says a longtime, and angry, GOP strategist.

With the public face of support for Bush eroding daily from even diehard Republicans, the President faces mounting anger from within his party over the path that may well lead to loss of control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections and the White House in 2008. Read more…

The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case is now unlikely, he may be in danger of losing his security clearance.

According to last week?s indictment of Scooter Libby, a person identified as ?Official A? held conversations with reporters about Plame?s identity as an undercover CIA operative, information that was classified. News accounts subsequently confirmed that that official was Rove. Under Executive Order 12958, signed by President Clinton in 1995, such a disclosure is grounds for, at a minimum, losing access to classified information. Read More via Newsweek

Last weekend, Karl Rove said that I was a clown and the antiwar movement was “non-existent.”