>>>>>What you say seems uncomfortably close to the Cheney-Bush position that these are bad guys, trust us, and we're not going to bother with the rules. I am profoundly uncomfortable with that.
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>>>>>And you think that they are good guys? Do you want them for next door neighbors. Princess Pelosi does not want them moved to Alcatraz!
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>>>>Marcia, where did I say I think I think they are good guys?
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>>>>FWIW I don't think any more of Nancy Pelosi than you do. One of the most profound things I have read in the early days of the Obama administration is that when he's sitting around a table with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, he is not among friends. They want to do things the old way.
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>>>I believe it was Charles who wrote that very early on... :o)
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>>Smart guy, Charles <g>. He was certainly on record early saying more of the resistance to Obama would come from the left than the right.
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>>But I don't think he predicted Obama would be elected in June of 2007 (bowing deeply <g>). One of my few prescient predictions.
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>I must have missed that. I certainly recall you supporting him back then, but I thought I remembered you thinking he could not win.

No, that was not me. I said Hillary could not win. It was June 2007 when I said it would be Obama. As I said, most of my predictions are wrong so I don't mind crowing when I was way out in front of the crowd for once ;-)