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1. #469916
   On September 26th, 2008 at 9:55 am, chapoutier said:

   Most of what you Obama shills post is made up out of thin air. After all, what is there to law school outside of teaching you how to lie creatively?

   Hmmm….must have missed that day. The days I went I learned to think critically, parse case law statutes and contract language, black letter law and the enduring legal debates of American jurisprudence. But I actually went to a good law school, so others may have had a different experience.

   Yes, that’s what a baseless allegation is. You don’t like Bush, so he’s done everything wrong in his past. It’s BDS, plain and simple.

   Just because someone refuses to admit something does not make it baseless. There is plenty of evidence he did coke. And I don’t think that is actually a black mark on his past, as I said before.

2. #469931
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am, John Deaux said:

   On September 26th, 2008 at 9:55 am, chapoutier said:
   Just because someone refuses to admit something does not make it baseless.

   When the sole purpose is to slander someone without any proof, it’s baseless. I could just as easily make the claim that Obama is an alien from the planet Arcturialoid, but it’s still a baseless allegation.

   There is plenty of evidence he did coke.

   If there was any evidence, the MSM would have plastered it all over the place in 2000 and in 2004. Hearsay and happenstance are not evidence. You’re an attorney, I would imagine that you had some sort of education about what constitutes evidence.

   And I don’t think that is actually a black mark on his past, as I said before.

   Read CC’s post about decorum and you’ll see why that statement is disturbing.

3. #469939
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am, chapoutier said:

   Hearsay and happenstance are not evidence.

   As an attorney I can say that actually they are evidence, though not proof. It is just a matter of what their probative value are.

   Hearsay and circumstantial evidence (or “happenstance” as you call it) are often used in court as legitimate evidence.

   And the MSM did bring up the allegations in 2000. Bush would not deny he ever used coke, the story lost its legs and died, as it should have.

   But please continue to delude yourself.

4. #469945
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am, gridlock said:

   After they say, “unfortunately, only US citizens are eligible to register to vote”, they give the user a “BACK” button to press.

   Hit the “BACK” botton, and you get back to the citizenship question. All the potential non-citizen voter has to do is change the “NO” to a “YES”, and he’s back in business!

5. #469962
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am, John Deaux said:

   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am, chapoutier said:
   As an attorney I can say that actually they are evidence, though not proof. It is just a matter of what their probative value are.

   Hearsay and circumstantial evidence (or “happenstance” as you call it) are often used in court as legitimate evidence.

   Please forgive my semantical faux pas. Let’s change from evidence to proof then. Can you prove that Bush used cocaine? Hearsay and circumstantial evidence should not be enough for a conviction (or so the reasonable man would say).

   And the MSM did bring up the allegations in 2000. Bush would not deny he ever used coke, the story lost its legs and died, as it should have.

   They also brought up allegations that he used his family to get out of being sent to Vietnam, but that “had no legs” also. Damn you Microsoft Word for not having been invented 30 years earlier!

   But please continue to delude yourself.

   I am most certainly not deluding myself. I can’t say for certain whether or not he did cocaine, or anything else for that matter. I know for damn sure that I’m not going to say he did so unless I’ve got good reason to believe that he did or unless I suddenly come down with BDS.

   You should know that not denying something is not the same as admitting it. Even if he did illegal drugs in his youth, at least he has the decorum to not admit that he did because he’s a role model and is setting an example for others to follow. It’s amazing how it all comes down to integrity, isn’t it?

6. #469963
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am, Goldwater Knight said:

   But I actually went to a good law school, so others may have had a different experience.

   Georgetown is so-so. Good for you though. Mom must be proud.

7. #469970
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am, Goldwater Knight said:

   As an attorney I can say that actually they are evidence, though not proof. It is just a matter of what their probative value are.

   Right, “If the glove doesn’t fit you must acquit”, is a tantamount example of this.

8. #470054
   On September 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am, chapoutier said:

   Georgetown is so-so. Good for you though. Mom must be proud.

   She is and G-town is a bit better than so-so, at least so says every major law firm that comes knocking on our doors for summer associates every fall. Actually as an aside, I am sure that none of you watch MSNBC, but if you happen to accidentally be exposed to it, they have a reporter there, Savannah Guthrie, who was a pretty good friend of mine back in the day. We were in the same small section Torts Class.

   Hearsay and circumstantial evidence should not be enough for a conviction (or so the reasonable man would say).

   It often is, but in any case, I did not realize this board constituted a criminal trial.

   And come on…common sense tells you that someone who says this:

   “I don’t want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago…And I mean that. It doesn’t matter if it’s LSD, cocaine, pot, any of those things, because if I answer one, then there will be another one. And I just am not going to answer those questions. And it may cost me the election.”

   …did those things.

9. #470095
   On September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am, Goldwater Knight said:

   She is and G-town is a bit better than so-so, at least so says every major law firm that comes knocking on our doors for summer associates every fall.

   Yeh my cousin goes to University of Chicago the law firm he’s interning at offered him $180,000 to start before he graduated but he turned it down to work at the White House.

   As for “movie star types”, they’d hang at our killer frat parties on campus. …Sometimes a few politicians (that made the papers).

10. #470097
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am, chapoutier said:

    And for what its worth, I find Bush’s reason as to why he did not want to admit or discuss such use, i.e., for the children imminently believable. I am not sure he is right about the effect such an admission would have, but its not an unreasonable position.

11. #470104
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am, chapoutier said:

    Yeh my cousin goes to University of Chicago the law firm he’s interning at offered him $180,000 to start before he graduated but he turned it down to work at the White House.

    I hope he’s independently wealthy because its no fun once those student loans come due.

12. #470112
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am, John Deaux said:

    On September 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am, chapoutier said:
    And come on…common sense tells you that someone who says this:

    “I don’t want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago…And I mean that. It doesn’t matter if it’s LSD, cocaine, pot, any of those things, because if I answer one, then there will be another one. And I just am not going to answer those questions. And it may cost me the election.”

    …did those things.

    First, note the ellipses. Context is everything.

    I’m not saying he didn’t. I don’t know that any more than you know he did.

    You’re seeing his lack of denial as proof that he did. If that’s true, then doesn’t that make him an honest man? Otherwise, he simply would have lied about it. In either case, I’d rather have someone who represents integrity than someone who openly admits that their other career path was as a junkie.

13. #470150
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    I hope he’s independently wealthy because its no fun once those student loans come due.

    U of C gave him a free ride or close to one.

14. #470162
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:32 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    Obama admitted to spending almost two years of his life in a perpetual drug and alcohol induced stupor while he was “finding himself” as an adolescent. By that strain of logic it should make him worse than Bush.

15. #470175
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am, chapoutier said:

    You’re seeing his lack of denial as proof that he did. If that’s true, then doesn’t that make him an honest man? Otherwise, he simply would have lied about it. In either case, I’d rather have someone who represents integrity than someone who openly admits that their other career path was as a junkie.

    I never said he lied about it. And in the political realm, when if you did not actually do something that could be deemed scandalous, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose with denying it, non-denials and evasions are evidence.

    He very carefully avoided answering the questions directly. For example when he said that he would have qualified in 1989 for being an employee of his father’s White House, which asked only that you affirm you haven’t used drugs in the past 15 years. I mean why answer the question is such a strange, contorted, not-really-on-point way?

    And the ellipses I put in the quote was only to get rid of the break up of the quote provided in the original article. Not sure if those sentences were said absolutely concurrently or not, but I really don’t see how it makes a difference.

    As far as whether or not the lack of admission shows integrity as opposed to one who just admits it, I believe Bush’s reasons for doing so are at least partly sincere, if not misguided. But I find it hard to believe that you believe that a politician airing out any sort of his own dirty laundry shows a lack of integrity.

16. #470177
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am, chapoutier said:

    U of C gave him a free ride or close to one.

    He must be very smart.

17. #470184
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:37 am, John Deaux said:

    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am, chapoutier said:
    And for what its worth, I find Bush’s reason as to why he did not want to admit or discuss such use, i.e., for the children imminently believable. I am not sure he is right about the effect such an admission would have, but its not an unreasonable position.

    Once things like that get legitimized by politicians, tv, and the MSM, kids think their parents are just old fogies that “don’t get it.” Taking parenting away from parents is just another problem with creeping Socialism.

18. #470186
    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:38 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    He must be very smart.

    He’s pretty smart. He wanted Yale but it was too expensive. He went to Tulane for free too.

19. #470377
    On September 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm, DBNinKY said:

    On September 26th, 2008 at 11:32 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    Obama admitted to spending almost two years of his life in a perpetual drug and alcohol induced stupor while he was “finding himself” as an adolescent. By that strain of logic it should make him worse than Bush.

    Well said, GK! I guess BHO was preparing for his “community organizing” work by disorganing a few of his brain cells first.

    A wasteful job and a wasted mind, I guess.