Mother Jones - Comments for "Bush Won't Pardon Marion Jones Because Steroids are Not a Matter of National Security"

Oh well she tried, I'm sure she has come back to her senses and realizes that there is a form of justice that applies to "just-us" minorities and women. She should be thankful that she didn't get major time in jail.

Very much like the Martha Stewart case, in that most people seemed to be under the illusion that Stewart went to prison on an 'insider trading' conviction, when the fact is she was convicted of not telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth to some FBI investigators. But she was not under oath, and it was in what they termed "an informal conversation".

They convicted her for obstruction of justice.

Doesn't everyone know that Marion Jones is in prison for "perjury"?

She is not in prison for doping. She should not be punished by the criminal justice system for anything more than perjury. Doping is not a federal crime.

Her doping offenses have been penalized by anti-doping agencies, etc. already.

Because Bush pardoned Libby, no laws should be enforced and all "criminals" should be pardoned. Anything else is hypocrisy.

Everyone in the US should be prospectively pardoned of all federal crimes until a president takes office who has not committed any crimes himself (or herself).

bet Mrs Jones' wishes she had a better attorny , that is why her a$$ is going to jail! Remember whern dealing with white collar criminals , Judges are more willing to be lax on them, because the Judge see's an individual that looks like, dreses like and acts like them. Sadly baseball is more popular then track and field.

I find it interesting that Jones is in jail, yet Jason Giambi, who admitted using steroids, is making multi-millions for the Yankees. Maybe if Jones were a white male, she'd be doing better.

I feel bad for Marion Jones and I think she's suffered enough. Now whether the President commutes her sentence is up to him. But US Track and Field actually getting involved is malicious and petty.

As for the news article about Bush and his minority appointments: so what? He encourages and supports policies that have a negative effect on minorities in this country. That means far more to us than his window dressing because when push came to shove, it wasn't Powell or even Rice he listened to, it was Cheney and Rumsfeld and the other White, male, neo-cons.

Please understand, Bill, that I hold mainstream Republicans in no higher esteem than I do mainstream Democrats.

It's simply that if we're going to criticize either one or the other for something, it should be for things that they're Actually Guilty Of, or At Fault For. Not the bogus 'perceptions' that the partisans within one wing of the Oligarchy constantly feed us about the other wing, or vise-versa.

That's just the way I see it.

Thanks YEAH...

You help show that the Lib's are jsut a bunch of hypocrits who want to keep the minorities down.. The more wlefare and control over them, the more democtar voters they will breed..

Thanks again,

Bill

Who cares! A cheater wants a liar to to give her a break. This country needs a break from an administration that preaches, yet absolutely scoffs at, ANY rule of law! Just pray the next 'white house wannabe' doesn't succumb to this common political affliction.

Geez, Marion could get her sentence commuted if she would just say she saw the weapons of mass destruction that Sadamn had.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Republicans all hate blacks and other minorities.

Democrats all love them.

Common knowledge.

This December 2004 USA Today article proves your point.

WASHINGTON ? With little fanfare and not much credit, President Bush has appointed a more diverse set of top advisers than any president in history.

In his first term, Bush matched the record that President Clinton set in his first term for appointing women and people of color to the Cabinet, and Bush had a more diverse inner circle at the White House. Since his re-election last month, the president has made a series of groundbreaking nominations.

He named his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to be the first female African-American secretary of State, the Cabinet's senior position. He also nominated Margaret Spellings, his domestic policy adviser, to lead the Education Department and Cuban-born business executive Carlos Gutierrez to head Commerce.

"Bush did not go out and say, 'I'm going to create an administration that looks like America,' which is how Clinton led off," says Paul Light, a political scientist at New York University who has studied presidential appointments. "He has just gone about recruiting a diverse Cabinet as an ordinary act. That's remarkable in the sense it sends to future administrations: 'This is just the way we're going to do business.'"

Among Washington insiders, what's more significant is the demographics of a more amorphous group: the aides and advisers whose counsel Bush trusts most. He is the first president whose innermost circle ? the people he relies on in a crunch ? includes a woman other than his wife.

Even some Democrats grumbled during the presidential campaign that Bush had more African-Americans and Hispanics among his closest advisers than did Democratic challenger John Kerry, who won a majority of black and Hispanic votes.

"On the Democratic side, we see that and we say, 'Hmmm,' " says Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000 and is African-American. She credits Bush with instinctively believing that surrounding himself with able women and people of color helps him make better decisions ? a lesson she says some Democratic officeholders and candidates have yet to absorb.

We now return to your regularly scheduled "Bush the Racist" bash-a-thon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Republicans all hate blacks and other minorities.

Democrats all love them.

Common knowledge.

This December 2004 USA Today article proves your point.

WASHINGTON ? With little fanfare and not much credit, President Bush has appointed a more diverse set of top advisers than any president in history.

We now return to your regularly scheduled "Bush the Racist" bash-a-thon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... Republicans all hate blacks and other minorities.

Democrats all love them.

Common knowledge.

This December 2004 USA Today article proves your point.

WASHINGTON With little fanfare and not much credit, President Bush has appointed a more diverse set of top advisers than any president in history.

Among Washington insiders, what's more significant is the demographics of a more amorphous group: the aides and advisers whose counsel Bush trusts most. He is the first president whose innermost circle the people he relies on in a crunch includes a woman other than his wife.

"On the Democratic side, we see that and we say, 'Hmmm,' " says Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000 and is African-American. She credits Bush with instinctively believing that surrounding himself with able women and people of color helps him make better decisions a lesson she says some Democratic officeholders and candidates have yet to absorb.

We now return to your regularly scheduled "Bush the Racist" bash-a-thon.

The fact that the US constitution allows Bush to pardon himself and the rest of his maladministration is a gross oversight that needs to be righted before the American people elect another idiot.

Mother Jones - Comments for "Bush Won&#039;t Pardon Marion Jones Because Steroids are Not a Matter of National Security"

Mother Jones - Comments for "Bush Won't Pardon Marion Jones Because Steroids are Not a Matter of National Security"