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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/uselections2008.joebiden

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.

Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

But his statements represent the Democrats' strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.

When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would "pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration", Biden answered in the affirmative.

"We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that's occurred," he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.

Members of Congress are "doing the right thing, they're not making false accusations about anything … they're collecting data, subpoenaing records, they're building a file", Biden said.

"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president -- no one is above the law."

Obama sounded a similar note in April, vowing that if elected, he would ask his attorney general to initiate a prompt review of Bush-era actions to distinguish between possible "genuine crimes" and "really bad policies".

"If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated," Obama told the Philadelphia Daily News. "You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve."

When asked about his comments by Fox news today, Biden said he has no evidence that criminal charges would be warranted and no intention of pursuing action against the current president.

"What is true is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by anyone," Biden said, adding: "But, you know, there's been an awful lot of unsavoury stuff that's gone on. And the mere fact … that it occurred in a previous administration doesn't mean [a subsequent] Justice Department, if, in fact, there's evidence, shouldn't pursue them. "But I have no evidence of any of that. No one's talking about pursuing President Bush criminally."

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Bob Woodward: "How's history going to judge this?"
George W Bush: “History? We won’t know. We’ll all be dead.”
-PBS Frontline 2004
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/woodward.
html

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, heh heh heh, just so long as I'm the dictator, heh heh heh."
-George Bush Jr

"I don't give a goddamn! I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way! Stop throwing the Constitution in my face!. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
—George Bush Jr, Capital Hill Blue, Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper, December 5, 2005
www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
-George W Bush, Gridiron Dinner, March 2001


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Originally posted by piratenews:


But the Bush/Obama Dept of Justice has no problem prosecuting ME for the "crime" of "driving safely without crashing", threatening me with 6 months jail and $5,000 fine (true for ALL fed traffic tickets), then stealing my Social Security disability pension, and stealign my wife's military pension.

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Originally posted by Righteous9:
did you post that because you thought that was a fine picture of a leader who respects his hosts when abroad?

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Hey, 'Rappy, if I show you a pic of McLame in his black pajamas, will you believe he's VC?

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Hey, 'Rappy, if I show you a pic of McLame in his black pajamas, will you believe he's VC?

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

But Obama ain't gonna do that, he's just a nice young guy in a suit with good intentions, something all the roads to hell are paved with, and not a lot of experience with the darker end of politics... yet.

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Obama wouldn't do it, but I wonder if Biden has the nerves and intel connections to pull it off, hmm...

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Keyword is MIGHT, suckers.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Imma sue you Mike, for makin' me fall off my chair LingOL!

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

He could, he would, and he'd be shining them big ol' pearly whites while he did it.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
lol...yer killin' me, H....lol

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Originally posted by Righteous9:

Rap, you post that picture just to show how indoctrinated into the smear machine you are?

By now you know why he was wearing that garb, is it really that you're fine with dishonest portrayals when it comes to winning an election?

Not that it's a surprise, but you're really wearing your lack of integrity on your sleeve here...

or did you post that because you thought that was a fine picture of a leader who respects his hosts when abroad?..yeah, that must be it

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Hmmm, someone send Condi to negotiate with Kenya....

heh heh heh.

-F

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
‘The consequences are going to be unbelievably bad’: Bush Jnr slams Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal

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