What If the FBI Delays Its Announcement Until January 21?

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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It's not about Clinton any more. It's about (1) a faceless crew of FBI investigators, and (2) Comey's timing.
[And who she picks for vice pres] if she picks joey ( a know psychotic) or Hya Watha...(a known idiot) we're toast.

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  • Posted by livefree-NH 7 years, 11 months ago
    The irony did not escape me today when Hillary said that 'if someone is being investigated by the FBI, then they shouldn't be allowed to buy guns!"

    I guess you don't need to buy guns if you have enough money to hire people who do.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It would have been great to have been exposed to
    Ayn Rand and her insight at an earlier age, but this life has much to offer and everyday brings new possibilities. I'll take it when I can get it.
    Good day sir!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As I have mentioned several times over the years, that is my favorite scene in all of her books. "But I don't think of you, Mr. Toohey." It was the best moment in the movie as well. Actually, when I saw and read that line when I was 14 (?) it literally changed my life. I realized in a flash that it didn't matter what people I didn't respect thought of me. They are too inconsequential to clutter up my brain with.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No you are the first one to use the KISS principle and state the problem succinctly. The caveat is who is going to indict and without and indictment there is nothing to pardon. One of the denied uses is blanket amnesty on unspecified charges.

    So there's your next step.

    Also why the Nixon Method was used.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Herb7734, your words are the reality that I often feel.
    Indeed Ayn Rand in my mind was a brilliant talent, writing captivating stories that are described with amazing clarity. She brought the reader on an emotional journey providing an educational balance loaded with thought provoking ideas and lessons.
    Her enlightened objectivism, her experience in Russia and it's death and destruction.
    The beauty of life and the way her Characters (the gulchers) lived it, should also be strived for. In the gulch the outside world didn't own their mood or attitude.
    Happy, that as long as we are breathing and we can reason we will adapt and seek that which fulfills us.
    One of the "scenes" that particularly struck me as totally incongruous with my reality, was in Fountainhead when Roark was at the temple he had created for a customer that was thoughtless and manipulated by Ellsworth Monkton Toohey who had been discrediting and swaying public opinion against Roark. As they met on a chance encounter Toohey asked Roark "what do you think of me" Roark's reply was "I don't .

    I want to be more like that.

    Have a great day and live it as you desire.
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  • Posted by Hot_Black_Desiato 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Please see an article from 1998 regarding Billy boy Clinton.

    "President Clinton promised this month not to pardon himself. It's surprising to see Clinton voluntarily relinquish a legal weapon, but even more surprising that he had his hands on it in the first place. Can the president really pardon himself?

    No one knows the answer. The Constitution says that the president "shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." This sentence, like many in the Constitution, can reasonably be interpreted in several ways. And since no court has ruled on this issue--because no president has ever tried to pardon himself--it remains an open question.

    The simplest interpretation is that the president can pardon any federal criminal offense, including his own, but cannot pardon an impeachment. In other words, Clinton is free to immunize himself from criminal prosecution, but has no power over Congress."

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an...

    Should I be red faced now?
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  • Posted by Hot_Black_Desiato 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One side note. Nixon was in process of being impeached then resigned....Once Nixon resigned he did not have power to pardon.
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  • Posted by Hot_Black_Desiato 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I beg to differ. Nixon is bad example on your part, and Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon.
    Timeline.
    http://watergate.info/chronology/brie...

    Nixon was impeached BEFORE he was convicted. You cannot pardon a crime that has not been formally found guilty of.

    Next just because someone does not USE the power does not mean they cannot.

    The verbiage sais, president can pardon ANYONE.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The hell of it is I love polka music, and what is a polka without an accordion? Every time a joke falls flat, a Lawrence Welk type pops up playing a polka, rather than a rim-shot and cymbal.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Michael, you see through the fogginess caused by irrational rhetoric, you delineate the problem, you recognize the step needed for a cure -- but you, and most of us, are voices shouting in the wilderness. When we hear the shouts return, we realize they are only the echo of ourselves. Ayn Rand held a view of mankind filled with the admiration that it is basically a noble creature. After reading her writings, one comes away believing that greatness is possible. They want to emulate the heroes and there are plenty to go around. My favorites were Roark and Rearden, others may be D'Anconia, or Dagny. Then we have to pinch ourselves and remind ourselves that they are fiction invented by a brilliant mind. They are the avatars that we strive to be, and at the same time fail to find anyone in reality who can live up to any of them, except a few people that we may know. As I grow older I have become more cynical and less idealistic, and every time I encounter a shiny objectivist, I think will this be a harbinger or another voice in the wilderness.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can just see that as a monty python like show or an early Saturday Night Live...That would be a funny skit.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Accordions are a weapon. "Hand over your money. We have accordions and we know how to use them."
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes it was written that way on purpose. Go do your homework and due diligence, get all red in the face and come back and 'fess up. No big deal it's like a rite of passage.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah yes they could be the real center if it's the Constitution but could be the center of the left. It helps to let us know which center you are referring to. For me the center of the left is just their version and meaningless outside liberal socialist circles. those aimless circling mugwumps are one's that don't want to find a home.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That already happened . His name is Director of the FBI..They have indicated they have enough to prosecute without fear of losing. Got keep up with you reading.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I dunno.
    I'm not thinking of the right lefties or the left righties, but the uncommitted middle roaders who eschew party affiliation when voting. Many of them claim to be Dems or Reps, but they have never voted a straight ticket.
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