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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (57234)	12/30/2008 7:23:54 PM
From: Neeka	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

And Blogo is entitled to his day in court. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? I think that died with Nixon?

To: FJB who wrote (57234)	12/30/2008 7:38:25 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

IL SEC/STATE ACKNOWLEDGES POWER LIMITED From NBC's Domenico Montanaro The Illinois Secretary of State's office acknowledged that Secretary Jesse White's refusal to sign off on embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill President-elect Obama's Senate seat holds little more than "moral" weight. "We've been doing a little research on this, and its a little nebulus," White's Press Secretary David Druker told First Read. "We do think the governor can still bring it to the U.S. Senate" without White's signature. He added, "I guess you could say it was a moral stand." Druker said White is friendly with Roland Burris and likes him personally, but he disagreed with Burris' assertion on MSNBC's 1600 that White would change his mind. "I don't think that's a good bet," Druker said, adding that the Secretary of State's office "felt particularly supported" when Obama put out a statement in which he largely backed Senate Democrats' stance against seating Burris. firstread.msnbc.msn.com

To: FJB who wrote (57234)	12/30/2008 8:17:26 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

NY Times Sued Over McCain Affair Story Lobbyist: Paper "brazenly published" piece about non-existent tryst thesmokinggun.com NY Times Sued Over McCain Affair Story Lobbyist: Paper "brazenly published" piece about non-existent tryst DECEMBER 30--A Washington lobbyist charges that The New York Times smeared her in a February 2008 story that she claims gave readers the false impression that she engaged in an "illicit and inappropriate romantic relationship" with Senator John McCain. The lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, today sued the Times and several of its reporters and editors in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Virginia. The defamation complaint, excerpts of which you'll find below, seeks $27 million in damages. According to Iseman, 41, the Times story claimed that she engaged in "an improper romantic relationship with Senator McCain, a married man, from which she gained advantage for her professional clients." In fact, Iseman charges, her relationship with McCain was "entirely professional, ethical, and appropriate," and not romantic. The Times piece has been "powerfully damaging" to her reputation and "destroyed the heart and soul of [her] professional identity and sense of personal self-worth." Iseman alleges that while a Times investigation turned up no "credible evidence" of a romantic relationship between her and McCain, the newspaper published its story in the face of "pressure" from the Drudge Report and The New Republic, which both became aware of reported internal "resistance" at the Times to the publication of the McCain-Iseman story. In seeking to avoid being scooped on their own story, the Times committed "an act of callous indifference to human decency and human dignity," Iseman contends.