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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (279555)	3/10/2006 12:29:26 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572631

The guy isn't President any more Jim. Hasn't been for nearly six years. Any article critical of him or his wife now is just to distract from the chimp Caesar's failings. Hillary won't be the nominee anyway, so, towel off your flop sweat.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (279555)	3/10/2006 12:33:35 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572631

Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship rawstory.com "Nina Totenberg: In an unusually forceful and forthright speech, O’Connor said that attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedoms. O’Connor began by conceding that courts do have the power to make presidents or the Congress or governors as she put it “really, really angry.” But, she continued, if we don’t make them mad some of the time we probably aren’t doing our jobs as judges, and our effectiveness, she said, is premised on the notion that we won’t be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts. The nation’s founders wrote repeatedly, she said, that without an independent judiciary to protect individual rights from the other branches of government those rights and privileges would amount to nothing. But said O’Connor as the founding fathers knew statutes and constitutions don’t protect judicial independence, people do... I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experience of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a long of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (279555)	3/10/2006 12:42:15 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572631

Clinton Quiet About Wal-Mart Ties By BETH FOUHY, AP Political Writer This is like 20 years ago aint it? Back then the chimp was selling failed companies and smoking dope... Al