of us believe otherwise. In order to make our nation healthy again there
must be an accounting and those who break the law, even the chief
executive must be held to high standards and when they violate laws and
when they insult the nation with their flagrant disregard for the
Constitution and human life, they MUST be brought to the dock. There must
be an investigation, which is what Articles of Impeachment require. BUT,
Obama disagrees. This is not a majority view on the progressive side of
the Democratic Party - but of course Baract Obama is not a progressive.
USATODAY.com
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid
out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration
but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or
Vice President Dick Cheney.
Obama said he would not back such a move, although he has been
distressed by the "loose ethical standards, the secrecy and
incompetence" of a "variety of characters" in the administration.
CAMPAIGN 2008: Barack Obama
"There's a way to bring an end to those practices, you know: vote the
bums out," the presidential candidate said, without naming Bush or
Cheney. "That's how our system is designed."
The term for Bush and Cheney ends on Jan. 20, 2009. Bush cannot
constitutionally run for a third term, and Cheney has said he will not
run to succeed Bush.
Obama, a Harvard law school graduate and former lecturer on
constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said impeachment
should not be used as a standard political tool.
"I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and
intentional breaches of the president's authority," he said.
"I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in
more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction," he added.
"We would once again, rather than attending to the people's business,
be engaged in a tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, non-stop circus."
Obama, son of a Kenyan father and American mother, spoke at a weekly
constituent breakfast he sponsors with Illinois' other senator, Dick
Durbin. He was asked about impeachment.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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