Olbermann: Bush’s eight years in eight minutes
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Actually, it’s a little more than nine minutes:
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Here’s the “I Have a Dream” speech in full
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Bush commutes sentences of border agents who shot drug dealer but doesn’t pardon them
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President Bush today COMMUTED the jail sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who were convicted of shooting an unarmed drug dealer and then trying to cover it up.
Frankly, until today, I’ve paid only passing attention to the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean (above). But upon doing a little homework on the matter, I’m reluctantly inclined to give Bush the benefit of the doubt and conclude that he’s done the right thing.
For me, the capper is that Bush isn’t wiping the slate clean for these two guys. A senior administration official said this today:
The president has reviewed the circumstances of this case as a whole and the conditions of confinement and believes the sentences they received are too harsh and that they, and their families, have suffered enough for their crimes.
Commuting their sentences does not diminish the seriousness of their crimes. Ramos and Compean are convicted felons who violated their oaths to uphold the law and have been severely punished.
This commutation gives them an opportunity to return to their families and communities, but both men will have to carry the burden of being convicted felons and the shame of violating their oaths for the rest of their lives.
Does anybody here want to discuss this case?
Foreign press diss Bush on his way out the door
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From Toronto to Timbuktu, editorial pages in newspapers around the world are bidding GOOD RIDDANCE to George W. Bush.
Obama’s promises for peace
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Nothing to fear but fear itself
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THIS GUY argues against what he calls the Democratic Party’s “culture of caution.”
Says he: “The entire history of American political debate can, in some sense, be described as the argument between the hope of progressives for a better future vs. the fear of conservatives who want to protect the way things are now.”
Obama first urban president in recent memory
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None of that phonus balonus I’m-just-a-country-boy stuff for this guy.
Good thing for him, too. As Nate Silver EXPLAINS, Obama’s electoral margin in urban areas was enormous.
