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Daily Pundit — Joe Biden says Barack Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration if elected | World news | guardian.co.uk Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. This won’t help them get that done.

Joe Biden: Barack Obama May Pursue Criminal Charges Against Bush if Elected
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Palin Speech Exceeds Expectations, Should Fuel Talk Radio
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney — ... Instead of directly confronting Palin, VP opponent Joe Biden attempted to shift the debate back to the Bush Administration, promising criminal charges against George W Bush if Obama is elected. But this desperate attempt at gaining attention failed miserably, few media outlets even reported the story and the main report came from overseas. ...

Rudy and Palin Smack Obama: So Why Is Biden The One Stumbling Stupid?
Riehl World View — Did you notice how Palin's speech had a certain intimacy mainly because she was inside a hall and not out in a stadium tonight? I'd wager America did. So, Joe Biden said what basically on the night Republicans were all "Country First!"? Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday 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 ...

The stakes just got higher
TigerHawk — Joe Biden is offering a new incentive to the Bush-haters: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday 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.... Obama sounded a ...

Biden: Obama Might Bring Criminal Charges Against Bush After Elected
Say Anything — Palin was right.  Biden should have gotten this Vice President thing in writing. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday 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 ...

Obama Vows “Prompt” Investigation Of Bush, Prosecution Of Criminal Acts
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Is he going to prosecute himself for all those drugs he was dealing? The Guardian: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday 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 ...

So Much For a New Kind of Politics...
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, September 03, 2008 [image] So Much For a New Kind of Politics... [ Mark Hemingway ] Joe Biden: " Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush ." 09/03 11:33 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.006106 seconds. ...

Meanwhile, on the campaign trail
QandO — While all the hoopla is going on in St. Paul, Joe Biden reprized an Obama theme: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday 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 ...

Oops! South Florida Newspapers Miss Big Biden Story in Own Backyard
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... prosecuting the Bush administration was completely cleansed from the report. The Miami Herald's story about the same rally also missed the highly controversial Biden comments. And the Palm Beach Post's lack of coverage of the same comments made it a perfect trifecta for South Florida newspapers in failing to cover a story that is currently burning up the web, including a red headlined lead on the Drudge Report. The Drudge Repot headline links to a UK Guardian story written by Elana Schor who provided the information that the news ...

Now let’s compare the Veep nominees
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Morning Links
The Agitator — Biden says an Obama administration could launch criminal investigations of Bush administration officials. I hope he’s right. Pants. The U.S. has spent $4 billion over the last five years on its destructive coca eradication program in the Andes. Over that period coca production in the region has risen to early 1990s levels, including a 27 percent increase in Columbia, where we spend most of the anti-drug money. Nazi raccoons on warpath! If you gave money to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter in support of his positions on ...

Biden: 'could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November'
Hyscience — ... ... nothing to see here, just move along. Again, this is just another far-left radical, liberal, progressive doing what far-left radical, liberal progressives do. ...

Biden says a President Obama might pursue criminal charges against George Bush.
Althouse — Now, this is loose talk from Biden, saying the one thing which, if I believed it, would force me to vote for McCain. Please follow up with Obama himself, because I'd really like to know. Oh, and when you're asking Obama this question, please needle him with the Eagleton scenario, because that's the way they talk about McCain and Palin, and I like to see good turnabout. ...

Biden: We’ll go after the Bush administration
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail about this clip of Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event yesterday in which he promised to go after the Bush administration for “violations of the Constitution”.   Readers believe this to be an outrage, and perhaps it is, but for another reason altogether than what they think: 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 ...

Will Bush and Cheney Really Face Criminal Charges?
DownWithTyranny! — ... selection as Obama's running mate. I knew Obama wasn't going to pick someone great like Russ Feingold, Barney Frank or Donna Edwards so I was happy to see him pick someone competent who would help him win electoral votes. The yesterday I read something that gave e real hope-- not the kind from a bumpersticker, the kind that I never thought I would see in American politics. Ironically, the hope came from a British newspaper, the Guardian and it held out the chance for something even better than impeachment, criminal charges against Bush. ...

I've Gotta Go With Althouse On This
Winds of Change.NET — ... If there's one thing that will decisively push me away from voting for Obama (even after Palin's great speech last night about which more later), it's the thought that Obama and Biden have their sights set on criminal prosecutions of Bush Administration figures. Althouse blogged it today, and I'd tagged it this morning. Here's the Guardian: ...

Biden: Elect Us and We'll Throw the Previous Administration in Jail
Moonbattery — ... As if we didn't have enough compelling reasons to exert every effort to defeat the Democrats this fall, Joe "Plugs" Biden is now promising the leftist thugs who constitute his party's base that he will throw members of the Bush Administration in prison if he and the Marxist punk at the top of the ticket manage to seize power. ...

Obama/Biden On Unifying America: Prosecute Bush Administration Post-Mortem
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Joe Biden thinks (using the term loosely) that criminal charges should be pursued against the Bush Administration as soon as he and Obama complete their ascendancy to the throne of Liberalism. We could cast this aside as some feeble attempt at winning over a few tinfoil hat-wearing fringe kooks within the Democrat party but for the fact that Obama ...

Biden says Bush Admin. criminal violations will be pursued
Crooks and Liars — ...      How did I miss this, as reported by the UK’s Guardian? Why isn’t it a major news story in the U.S.? Ah yes…it’s all about Sarah. ...

Does Biden think he can get away with this?
Stop The ACLU — No shame. Flat-out lie. Scary. Guardian: Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration 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 ...

Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... 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. ... "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." Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/03/uselections... As best I understand it, the ...

Will Bush and Cheney Really Face Criminal Charges?
Firedoglake — ... as Obama's running mate. I knew Obama wasn't going to pick someone great like Russ Feingold, Barney Frank or Donna Edwards so I was happy to see him pick someone competent who would help him win electoral votes. Then yesterday I read something that gave me real hope-- not the kind from a bumper sticker, the kind that I never thought I would see in American politics. Ironically, the hope came from a British newspaper, the Guardian, and it held out the chance for something even better than impeachment: criminal charges against Bush. ...

White House race roundup
Overlawyered — ... of corporate law [Pileggi, Bainbridge] Palin’s views on legal reform mostly unknown; Alaska (like Delaware) has one of the most highly regarded state legal systems, and wouldn’t it be fun if the state’s distinctive and longstanding (if somewhat attenuated) loser-pays rule got mentioned in the campaign? Lending spice to campaign: prospect that victorious Dems might criminally prosecute Bush officials [Guardian (U.K.), Memeorandum, OpenLeft ("we'll put people in prison" vows whistleblower ...

GOP Has Roared Back To Life With Sarah Palin As VP
Hyscience — ... feel the Constitution shouldn't be upheld and VP nominee Biden stated that an Obama administration might just pursue criminal charges against Bush. ...

Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos — ... Sen. Joe Biden has said that the Obama administration might consider pursuing criminal charges against Bush administration officials.  A new book that mcjoan will review, James P. Pfiffner's ...

Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
Daily Kos — ... Sen. Joe Biden has said that the Obama administration might consider pursuing criminal charges against Bush administration officials.  A new book that mcjoan will review, James P. Pfiffner's ...