Let's play the Libby connection game.
Libby was Marc Rich's attorney who helped successfully get him a pardon from Bill Clinton.
James Carville (he who writes letters for Libby and longtime Clinton pal) and Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton's possible opponent, are both part of the Libby Defense fund team.
Rudy Giuliani prosecuted Marc Rich.
See how Hillary can be the "change" candidate? If you do let me know.
I was majorly upset at Obama letting her blur the Iraq differences, now she's going to be the "change" candidate??? More like back to the future.
Anyhow, Andrew Sullivan has some key observations.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th e_daily_dish/2007/07/clinton-and-lib.htm l
Clinton and Libby
03 Jul 2007 09:56 am
She is not going to be front and center of this critical battle to highlight the profound corruption at the heart of this presidency. She was among the last Democratic candidates to respond last night - long after Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden. Why? Because of her husband's grotesque abuse of the pardon power at the end of his presidency. Just a small reminder of the baggage Clinton carries, baggage that will prevent her from either fully exposing the abuse of power under this administration or ending it if she were to become president. Everything in Clinton's past, after all, suggests that she will quite eagerly accept Dick Cheney's transformation of the executive branch into a rampart of secrecy, executive privilege and personal will. These were her hallmarks in the White House as well. She shares with Cheney an obsessive fixation on her own secrecy, a paranoid suspicion of her political opponents, and a desire to use all the powers at her disposal. I don't think she can be a credible critic of this administration's contempt for the rule of law. And I don't think she can be a credible antidote to it either. If Democrats believe otherwise, they're fooling themselves a second time around.
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