Posted on 09/04/2008 9:56:28 AM PDT by mojito
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".
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team “O” really doesn’t want to go there... it would not be pretty for the Republic going forward.
How uniting!
No mistake about it,
if the Left achieved the level of power they seek,
it would be punishable by death to speak out against them.
The “Republic” wouldn’t matter too much if they fix things so that they are never out of power again.
The left wants show trials. Obama wants to create a Gestapo.”
I guess this is what they mean by “post-partisan”...
Some where George Orwell is laughing.
Yeah they would.
It is time for the Republicans members of the house to give us a promise of lower taxes, energy independence, and to fight the war on terror (and yes, TERM LIMITS and line veto!) We can fight these Marxists and if Obama-biden wants to create a circus - let them spend their own $$$ - NOT THE TAXPAYERS!!
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