I don;t discount his drive to do so, but then again he is the embodiment of the typical liberal hack fitting in with the rest of the hacks currently in office.

We must use precious time on substantive issues that affect peoples lives and not minutia.

If we don’t know the answers to these questions then we are too ignorant to reach a conclusion?

This is especially true if the attorney takes a case to defend a reprehensible individual for career advancement potential as a single event activity. However, a lawyer who represents criminal entities (i.e. the mob or ACLU) for a long time has, in my opinion ethical problems as they have chosen to prop-up illegal activity and provide cover to the offenders.

Besides, no matter how reprehensible Johnny Taliban is, he remains a citizen of the US and deserves competent representation. And unfortunately, the run of the mill public defender is ill equipped to deal with a case like this.

I thought Obama was “post racial”- what’s up with his preacher he claims he was unaware was a racist (although employed by Obama’s campaign at the time), what’s with his “typical white person” comment, the tapes coming out of his racist diatribes, his wife’s paper on how awful it was being black at an Ivy League school?

If there was any doubt, the recent anti-British shenanigans should tell you whether Obama, in his heart, considers himself more Kenyan-African, or more American. A REAL American wouldn’t have sent-back the bust of Churchill that was in the White House for 50 yrs and insult a British PM like this.

This racial stuff comes up an awful lot with Obama… sure don’t know what his problem is. You don’t see the entire media and half the public rushing to support any inexperience, liberal, white candidates for President, do you?

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Don’t blame me – they made me watch “12 Angry Men” in college TWICE.

That’s one big thing in all of this. I think the left, by and large, has realized that trying to win every news cycle only gets you so far. The right needs to understand that, too, and plan for the long-term. I’m not saying to ignore things- hardly. But pick and choose your battles wisely.

We get all wound up in this meaningless crap and ignore the real issues. For instance, Newt had the Clinton Administration on the ropes on the issues. People were beginning to see what an empty suit – albeit a “nice” one – Clinton was and we turned from the issues (where we had the Dems splitting) to getting silly personal and uniting the Dems and the country behind Bubba.

Now we’re doing the same thing all over again. I don’t like West, but if this is the best we can do, order up a new batch of white flags. We let Obama have a tax evader as Secty of the Treasury (and head of the IRS) without a peep. Nobody’s done a damn thing about the ideology/policy preferences of the jerks at the top of the EPA or DoJ. There are two nominees who are under investigation by either the FBI or NY authorities and what have we heard about Democratic corruption?

As far as “going back to 9/10″, elections have consequences and is there ANYBODY who didn’t KNOW that would be one real consequence of BO’s election? Now then, as my friend rbdwiggins so eloquently and rightly states just above my little rant, How much of that $65 Million in campaign contributions came from illegal foreign sources? Not to mention the source rest of BO’s campaign treasury. We should have buried Clinton over the Chinese Money Connection but we seem to think blow jobs are a bigger deal than classified military systems being given to the Chinese and huge cash infusions in Democratic coffers from China. From the stuff I’ve seen it would seem that BO got significant money from at least the Euros. What are we waiting for, another bimbo eruption?

WTH, you do generally good stuff. This won’t be remembered as your best.

Regarads

what matters most about this nominee’s character is WHY he CHOSE to represent Lindh if he did. What matters most are his substantive views on what the law is and should be.

Certainly any defendant should have a lawyer to make sure the state proves the case. Their are ethical rules for lawyers that know of their client’s guilt.