Obama And Biden Vow “Prompt” Investigation Of Bush, Prosecution Of Criminal Acts - Video Evidence Update Added
***UPDATE
This morning on Fox and Friends Brian Kilmede asked Joe Biden about this plan to ‘prosecute’ Pres. Bush and his Administration.
Biden STRONGLY DENIED ever having said he would do such a thing (I am currently looking for a video clip of that from this morning’s F&F show and will add it once found).
Here is video of Biden having said he will seek to prosecute The Bush Administration [should] he and Obama get into the White House:
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 vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued,” Biden said during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, according to ABC.
“[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution,” he added, “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”.
“[I]f crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” Obama told the Philadelphia Daily News. “You’re also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”
Congressional Democrats have issued a flurry of subpoenas this year to senior Bush administration aides as part of a broad inquiry into the authorisation of torturous interrogation tactics used at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Three veterans of the Bush White House have been held in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to respond to subpoenas: former counsel Harriet Miers, former political adviser Karl Rove, and current chief of staff Josh Bolten. The contempt battle is currently before a federal court.
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Unifier, my ass. He’s just a hate-filled far leftist.
Obama just keeps giving us more reasons to defeat him.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 pmI can see it now. Four years of investigation followed up by prison time for Obama and Biden for misappropriation of funds, an economy that is in shambles, and civil war looming.
Let’s do it!
Puhlease….
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 pmBarack who?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pmYou know this means war. Domestic war. Those pieces of shit think they can get away with this?
I have a list I would not mind completing.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pmYou know what … most of the people who don’t like Bush and Cheney just want them to go away. They don’t want to see years of vindictive, partisan bullshit trumped up charges that the top Constitutional lawyers in this country will shoot down over and over again and again to the verge of puking just so the fucking MSM and the people listening to the bullshit coming from the MSM will hear the truth that this Administration did nothing … wrong.
But you go ahead running against Bush/Cheney, Joe …
Yeah, that’ll work …. you dumb fuck.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:29 pmI thought he was going to focus on the ‘issues’. Jackass
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmPat, nice post, you wiped that smile off our face and shoved us back into the battle.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmI’m thinking I should stock up on AR-10 magazines and hone the shooting skills given to me by the Marine Corps.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm“[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution,” he added, “out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.”
Biden is such a freakin worm. not out of vengeance, my ass.
and its also a way of sucking up to their communist followers who have ‘Bush derangement syndrome’.
2 members of the do-nothing congress planning a wild goose chase at the expense of the American tax payer yet again. these cannot be allowed in the white house. ever!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 pmBuy your weapons before they come to power. There will be a gun ban for sure.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 pmNice try … but the main story is staying where is should be … the newly recognized poltical powerhouse; Sarah Palin. So take your empty threats and shove ‘em, you ain’t stealing the headlines this time, fucknuts.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pmIf that happens someone will kill the monkey.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 pmIt’s too bad presidential candidates don’t need to pass a psychiatric evaluation or these two would have been locked up already.
Lets see instead of devising a plan to guard our nation against further acts of terrorism or a plan to eliminate our need for foreign oil so that we are self sufficient they are going to instead act like a couple of 3 year olds and make a lot of noise about nothing to try and take our attention off of the reality that they have no fucking plan or even a plan to have a plan at all.
Yep this makes perfect Dem sense, it’s the WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! factor.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 pmYeah, I’ll bet the investigation would be “prompt” - it would have to be to distract the country from the complete lack of any sort of qualifications for office that would become immediately apparent.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 pmIf Obama wins in November President Bush will need to issue blanket pardons to himself and every member of his administration for any and all crimes committed in their lifetimes.
Then let the hate filled dems have their investigations.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 pmObama’s a Marxist doing his job: trying to tear the country apart, weeding out the undesirables (e.g., those who speak the truth), implying that he is The One to restore honor and dignity, creating class envy, lying his fool head off.
He’s not trying to defeat the Republican party; he’s trying to destroy the Republican party.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 pmDrugs and Plugs!
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 pmHe might as well pile that on with all the other comedic acts already vowed.
Maybe he can slide it between snuggling up to our enemies and disarming our military.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pmkeep dreaming Moqtada al Obama. Hussein Obama will never be President of The United States of America.
Obama~Binden Dumb and Dumber 2008
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pmkeep dreaming Moqtada al Obama. Hussein Obama will never be President of The United States of America.
Obama~Binden Dumb and Dumber 2008
Mike F
Drugs and Plugs!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 pmCLASSIC…..
Every base in Iraq ( not counting op’s and such ) has a sign posted all over it:
“Complacency Kills”
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pmMy ass. Get that fucktard away from a teleprompter long enough to string a few syllables together and he sounds like everyone else on Daily Kos.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 pmFrom a Do-Nothing Congress to a Do-Nothing President — Just what are we in for?
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pmObama has all those Lobby lawyers giving him cash they will need something useless to do to suck on our tax dollars.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pmAre you kidding me
I jsut want to move on, not dwell in the past. I bet he believes everything the U.N. says, and does not trust our own guys.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:25 ami just hope someone shots his ass!
September 4th, 2008 at 2:34 amWhen an opponent runs out of arguments he attacks. This shows that the Democrats have lost all arguments and can only investigate to qualify their existent.
This is a rally cry to their base as it folds into a fan club for the GOP.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:08 amThe hidden subtext here is that there has been an ongoing battle between Congress and the Executive branch for power. The liberals seek a more parliamentary government while the conservatives seek stronger separation of powers and and a strong executive. The founding fathers were wise beyond their wildest expectations.
The only way to tip the scales in their favor is through the courts. This is the primary reason the liberals are so desperate to elect Obama. They need to restock the bench with liberal judges due to aging. If McCain wins then at least two Supreme Court justices will be be appointed during his term. The Dems do not want another Alito, Edwards, Thomas, etc.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Mike W - spot on. And let us not forget how many lock-step, troll lawyers inhabit the halls of congress. Tort reform is just the beginning of whats needed to slay the Hydra known as the american trial lawyers assoc. 
September 4th, 2008 at 8:26 amThe Audacity of Hope — Obama, Published: 2006
My Struggle (Mein Kampf) — Hitler, Published: 1925
These two ‘books’ are essentially the same: socialist, racist, intellectually-vapid tripe.
Both were written by the same sort of ‘men’ — shallow, small, angry and bitter little thugs — solely dedicated to the acquisition of power for the purpose of inflicting vengeance on ‘their’ enemies.
Only three ‘types’ of people are voting for Barack Obama this November:
1. Stupid people.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am2. Evil people.
3. Racist people (stupid, evil people).
They would probably not be aware of the outcome of such doings.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pmNot disagreeing with anything here, but wanting to know why Obama receives 6x more donations from active duty military personnel than McCain does, as of mid last month. Anyone have an answer?
September 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pm