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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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AL NEEDS A JOB
Poor Al--he's all resume, no job. Sort of a yuppified version of "All hat, no cattle."
And what a resume he has: graduate of Harvard law school; chief lawyer for the president of the United States; and then U.S. attorney general, America's top lawyer.
Alberto Gonzales can't get a job. Having been forced to resign as attorney general, the Texan who flowered in the manure of George W's corporate-financed rise to power has been putting out feelers to the very corporate law firms that fueled his rise to the legal heights. They are not returning his phone calls.
Gonzales confused personal loyalty to the Bush regime with public responsibility. Legalize torture? He'd find a way. Use the Justice Department as a political hit squad? He was okay with that. Go before Congress and play a dummy? Hey, count on Al.
Unfortunately, this tail-wagging loyalty to the Bushites caused Gonzales to be seen as, let's say, less than truthful, even to Republican lawmakers. Plus, he's facing possible criminal charges for his prevarications.