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What's Sullivan's background again? Was he a securities attorney?
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Felon and tax cheat.
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It's great political theater but we all know Romney is part of the 1%....he can get away with anything. He may / probably will lose the election but he'll never see a courtroom.
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So, it's the "obvious perjurer/felon" versus the guy who was born in Kenya who thinks it's OK to kill American citizens without due process. Woo-hoo! I'm so excited about this election. Sign me up.
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Romney isn’t a perjurer, and he is hardly a felon, given I doubt he would get convicted in a trial, and the worst case scenario would be a plea deal down to a misdemeanor.

However, Romney is just as bad, he is being highly disingenuous. He took a salary of $100k a year for 1999-2001, let alone what profits he made as the head of Bain Capital.

I would considered that he broke the law, if Bain was involved in major fraud, and he denied being involved, even though his name is on the SEC documents stating he was an officer of the company. Romney still has some wiggle room, that he wasn’t involved in day to day operations. However, he needs to stop the charade that he had no connection to Bain Capital from 1999-2002, given he was still the official CEO and an officer of the company, he started up. He attended board meetings as a Bain Capital Representative.

He maybe not be a perjurer, but he is being just as bad being highly disingenuous.
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Oh, what a nice day this is shaping up to be...reading about Mittens tripping over his superiority. But like @3 says, he is going to weasel out of all this, legally speaking. I just hope voters are paying attention to all this.
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@4: Except he wasn't born in Kenya.

Killing American Citizens without due process is a charge that's not going to have much traction. The GOP won't use it because they LOVE killing American Citizens, even those who aren't Al Qaeda enablers, and want to preserve this ability for themselves. Most Americans know that killing comes with the job of POTUS. They're going to murder, but where is the line? Drawing it so that killing Bin Laden is great, but killing an accused traitor like Al Awlaki is an outrage is a huge stretch.

The people who really care about this are going to vote how, exactly? Against the guy who's doing it and in favor of a guy who'll do it more? Or are they going for LaRouche? Paul? The Greens?
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@4: Can't always tell when you're kidding -- you're a birther? Doesn't seem likely. You always seemed kind of smart, even if occasionally wildly misguided.

The extra-legal executions bug the hell out of me, but I assume you're kidding about this bugging you. I have this memory you're a big fan of shoot-first-ask-questions-later no-knock raids, which lead, as an absolutely predictable consequence, to a fair number of extra-legal executions, often of demonstrably innocent people.

Sorry if I just missed your joke.
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Just because he's a felon and a perjuror doesn't mean he'll do jail time for his crimes.
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@5, and everyone else:

He took a salary of AT LEAST $100k. You can be damned sure that it was a high multiple of that number. I'm not sure Mitt would even bother cashing a check for only $100k. Personally, I think this is one of the primary reasons he won't release his tax forms - they will show that his salary during that time at Bain was quite high, indicating that he had more than a token role at the company.
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The Republicans party only believes perjury is for blowjob. Raping tax law to allow as little as possible to fund the system your raping is just sound business. And Mitt does seem to love betting against the US when it comes to hiding his money.

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Okay, but let's be real here: what proportion of national-level politicians do you think aren't perjurers? There's basically no way we'll ever know, because they run things, but I'd be willing to bet if a bet could be made that it's a minority. It's a crooked game.

And even among the ones we do find out about - and let's fold in high-profile public figures from the private sector and from government administrations and government-related areas like lobbying here, too - only a minority are ever called out or held accountable.

Rich, powerful people are above the rule of law in this country. They only ever go down when their own kind turn on them and make an example of them for the crime of indiscretion.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that for Andrew Sullivan to say this as part of political theater probably only worsens the problem, because it makes a factual statement about a man being a criminal into a piece of partisan rhetoric. It immediately disjoins the facts from the argument and makes what should be a legal case into yet another Nerf bat for pundits to hit each other with.

I don't know if I have a recommendation. Obviously shutting up about powerful people committing crimes isn't a better option. I'm just discouraged.
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For the GOP nutjobs to squawk about the 'extra-judicial killings' would completely open the door to their being painted as "soft on terror crybabies".

And they sure as hell know it. What sweet irony it is!

P.s. to Matt from Boulder: Your observations are correct, 5280 is a nut and may safely be discounted.
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@14: Eric's from Boulder. Matt's from Denver. We think of the two cities as being quite distinct one from the other! 5280 rounds out SLOG's Colorado Triad.
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@15,
I also live in Denver (well, Westminster, actually). Add me to the list!
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@16: Didn't know that! Me and Mrs. fromBoulder were over to your neck of the woods a couple weekends ago. We had tickets to the Rockies, and since we suspected (we were right) it would be a disappointing game, we thought we'd get at least some fun out of the trip by cycling down to Denver. Long ride! Anyway we took a northerly route, 144th to Huron, then cut straight south across the northwesternmost arm of your fair city. Maybe we need to do another ColoSlogHappy. I missed the one 5280 put together a few years ago.
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Park Hill up in here too...keep it on the down low though.
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There are more Coloradans on Slog than Seattlites, but not more than Washingtonians.
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Andrew's been blogging too long. This is why we need journalism. Real, professional journalism, with a professional editor to temper immoderate flourishes.
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I did live very briefly in Boulder (Table Mesa... near the NCAR building up in the foothills). It's a strange place, but more so because it has an uber-liberal shell with a hidden libertarian underbelly that most people don't see at first.

5280 and I have hung out a few times but not since I moved out of Denver. And by hanging out, I mean, we met up at a Colfax Ave dive bar for a bite to eat, got plastered on Jameson (me) and Jagermeister (5280), and each stumbled our respective ways back home.

5280's a good guy. Strong opinions, yes, but who doesn't have strong opinions on an anonymous blog like SLOG? He's a fun guy to go have a drink (or two, or twelve) with.
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Obama called a hit on an American citizen. I can live with a liar. It's a bit more challenging to do so with a killer.

Advantage - Romney
23
False equivalence is still the new black.
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@22: This from the man who thinks aspirin kills more people than heroin. Your opinion doesn't count anymore, douchekayak.

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