John McCain should answer this question.

[Segami]

Answer this question Johnny.

Question: Why do you think it was acceptable back on December 19, 1998 to have cast a ' YES ' vote for Bill Clinton's impeachment based on the charges levied against him and why do you think its NOT acceptable to vote YES for the Articles of Impeachment for President George W. Bush introduced in Congress June 9th, 2008 by Dennis Kucinich?

Were ANY or ALL laws broken in one case and not the other, if so, which one DID NOT break the law in YOUR opinion and why?



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Clinton Impeachment vs Bush Impeachment



This is not an opinion article. This is the summaries of the Articles of Impeachment against former President Clinton and current President Bush and are in the Congressional Record for readers to read and compare and draw their own conclusions. I chose links to details that I believed were the most readable. You can also go directly to the Congressional Record. Draw your own conclusions. And feel free to cut and email the list to anyone you wish. If you have a Federal legislator who voted to impeach Clinton, please send the list to that person and ask him to do the same for the sitting president.


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Draw your own conclusions. Pass the list on.


Articles of Impeachment for President William Jefferson Clinton

In his conduct while President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

Article I Perjury article: William Jefferson Clinton provided "perjurious, false and misleading testimony" before Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury in regard to relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones.
Article !! (thrown out): William Jefferson Clinton provided "perjurious, false and misleading testimony" in the Paula Jones civil case.
Article III obstructed justice in an effort to delay, impede, cover up and conceal the existence of evidence related to the Jones case.
Article IV (thrown out): William Jefferson Clinton misused and abused "his high office" by making perjurious statements to Congress in his answers to the 81 questions posed by the Judiciary Committee.
note: Clinton was acquitted of all charges.
Link to details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/impeachvote121198.htm



Articles of Impeachment for President George W Bush

Introduced in Congress June 9, 2008.
In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

Article I - Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.
Article II - Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.
Article III - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.
Article IV - Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.
Article V - Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.
Article VI - Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.
Article VII - Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.
Article VIII - Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.
Article IX - Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor
Article X - Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes
Article XI - Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq
Article XII - Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources
Article XIII - Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries
Article XIV - Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency
Article XV - Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq
Article XVI - Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors
Article XVII - Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives
Article XVIII - Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy
Article XIX - Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to 'Black Sites' Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture
Article XX - Imprisoning Children
Article XXI - Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government
Article XXII - Creating Secret Laws
Article XXIII - Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Article XXIV - Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment
Article XXV - Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens
Article XXVI - Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements
Article XXVII - Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply
Article XXVIII - Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
Article XXIX - Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Article XXX - Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare
Article XXXI - Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency
Article XXXII - Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change
Article XXXIII - Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.
Article XXXIV - Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Article XXXV - Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

Source with links to details: http://www.impeachbush.tv/progress/dk_aoi_bush/



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[Gabi Hayes]

1. while an excellent Q, it's too much work for the peeps. I like this one

1...How many houses/condos do you own, and how many of them are in your/yours and Cindy's/Cindy's names?

1A....how much is your allowance?

[Segami]

2. Well, that depends on what you mean by ' allowance '.....lol!

[tulsakatz]

3. if you ask a republican why Clinton was impeached...........

...they will always tell you it was not about the sex, it was because he lied to a Grand Jury. They say that's a very serious issue.

ok, so if lying to a Grand Jury is so serious, why did all of them think it was no big deal when Libby lied to a GJ? And he didn't just lie once, he lied over and over again!!!

[Segami]

4. These are valid questions that our reliable media hand-puppets should be asking John McCain since he

has come out and said a few days ago when asked the ' impeachment ' question, he replied by saying " First of all, I do not agree with quote, articles of impeachment, and I can assure the majorities of both parties in both houses would not agree either. "

McCain should make it crystal clear as to why in 1999, he voted for the impeachment of President Clinton. At the time, McCain stressed that a president must be held “accountable to the rule of law“

Presidents are not ordinary citizens. They are extraordinary, in that they are vested with so much more authority and power than the rest of us. We have a right; indeed, we have an obligation, to hold them strictly accountable to the rule of law.

It is self-evident to us all, I hope, that we cannot overlook, dismiss or diminish the obstruction of justice by the very person we charge with taking care that the laws are faithfully executed. It is self-evident to me.

Then why is it NOT " self-evident " to McCain now with charges of law breaking and obstruction of justice against Bush?

He should be asked these questions to find out where he stands on these issues and why?.......it would be telling as to what kind of justice we can expect from a McCain presidency.

[tulsakatz]

5. I agree.....I think we do have a right to know how he would answer those questions..........

I don't believe McCain even has a chance of being President but we still have a right to know how he would answer those questions.

In my earlier post, I compared Clinton lying to a GJ and Libby doing the same thing. With Clinton, it was seen as a very serious issue but with Libby republicans acted like it was almost not even a crime! And as far as I can tell, the only difference between the 2 was the fact that Clinton was a democrat and Libby was a republican!

I'd still like to hear how Mr DoubleTalk tries to talk his way out of that one......