Posted on 06/07/2017 4:29:24 PM PDT by roses of sharon
The NeverTrumpers are virtue signalling en masse that we never would have put up with a President Obama who demanded a pledge of loyalty from a cabinet-level officer who's actual loyalty lay with the Constitution, had he done that.
Well here's the thing: President Obama did do that, or so it seems -- we don't have the full conversation (Gates did not apparently write a memo about it immediately after it occurs). At the very least, the conversation seems to have gone into the area of Gates' loyalty to Obama -- with Gates pledging loyalty, of a kind.
Why did Gates go down this road? Certainly seems like Obama must have prompted him along these lines, no?
I'm going to assume the answer "Yes," because people don't routinely pledge loyalty to individual men without that being sought.
Even if you somehow believe Gates pledged loyalty to Obama without prompting, then you'd have to take Gates as expert testimony that people who actually work in the upper reaches of official DC understand that if you want a job, or want to keep your job, you're expected to tell a president you're loyal to him.
And, frankly, I gotta say, the politics in DC are right now so obvious and obviously rotten that the first question I'd have for anyone -- including law enforcement and intelligence officials, who naive authority-worshiping conservatives childishly still maintain are above any such doubt -- is "Are you actually working for the Democrat Establishment?"
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It was a deep, tender affair of the heart.
Just a W-A-G mind you, but I’d say Obunga had surveiled Gates and had something on him. If you have a man by the b@ll$, his heart and mind will go where you want.
Or maybe Comey was supposed to answer differently... the correct answer would be “Mr. President, I am loyal to the Constitution of the United States.”
“Mr. President, I am loyal to the Constitution of the United States.”Which requires the Attorney General's loyalty to the elected Chief Executive, until and unless the POTUS is removed from office.
Comey wasn't supposed to treat the President-Elect like a Person-Of-Interest. And yet, he did.
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