John Edwards for president?

That's pretty much it, setanta. The madam just doesn't want to stop long enough to think. Too busy attacking.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

LoneStarMadam wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

The Texas governor can vetoe bills and use the bloody pulpit to guide an agenda. He/she is not truly powerless.

Bush as governor delighted in executing prisoners. When a sizeable number of people asked him to halt Carla Fay Tucker's execution, he laughed about it and mocked her before she died.

Well, maybe you could inform snood of all that power that a Tx gov has.
A Tx governor CAN NOT stop a death penalty by any means, he/she can only give a 30 day reprieve.

This is either willful or ignorant deception. The Governor can only commute a death sentence if the Board of Paroles recommends a commutatino, but the Governor can ignore a recommendation for clemency and allow the execution to proceed--which is what is being referred to here.

I said A TEXAS GOVERNORE CAN NOT STOP AN EXECUTION!! Is there something there that you don't understand?

Yes, upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Governor can stop an execution--but he or she doesn't have to commute the sentence of execution. Is there something about that that you don't understand? There's no need to shout, especially when you're wrong.

From the State of Texas:

Constitution of the State of Texas.

. . . and specifically, Artcle 4, Section 11:

BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES; PAROLE LAWS; REPRIEVES, COMMUTATIONS, AND PARDONS; REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES

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Is there something about that that you don't understand?

One of those rhetorical questions, eh

Cycloptichorn

So when the Shrub pursed his lips, and said "Please, don't kill me" in mockery of Miss Tucker's appeal for clemency, you considered that evidence of his qualification for the highest executive office in the nation?

Yeah, that boy's qualified . . . for dog-catcher . . . maybe . . .

Cycloptichorn wrote:

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Is there something about that that you don't understand?

One of those rhetorical questions, eh

Cycloptichorn

being cryptic? Maybe they'll listen to you. Since you lived in Austin for 9 years, you know that a Tx governore can not stop an execution, he/she can only give a 30 day reprieve.

So when the Shrub pursed his lips, and said "Please, don't kill me" in mockery of Miss Tucker's appeal for clemency, you considered that evidence of his qualification for the highest executive office in the nation?

Yeah, that boy's qualified . . . for dog-catcher . . . maybe . . .

Setanta wrote:

So when the Shrub pursed his lips, and said "Please, don't kill me" in mockery of Miss Tucker's appeal for clemency, you considered that evidence of his qualification for the highest executive office in the nation?

Yeah, that boy's qualified . . . for dog-catcher . . . maybe . . .

I didn't think that was any worse that billzeebubba hikin it back to Arkansas to oversee the execution of a mentally ill man.

So that you can understand this a little more clearly, the Shrub denied more than thirty recommendations for clemency--on more than 30 occasions, with the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Bush could have stopped executions--and he refused to do so.

Setanta wrote:

So that you can understand this a little more clearly, the Shrub denied more than thirty recommendations for clemency--on more than 30 occasions, with the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Bush could have stopped executions--and he refused to do so.

What can I say othere than, you are just plain wrong.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

So when the Shrub pursed his lips, and said "Please, don't kill me" in mockery of Miss Tucker's appeal for clemency, you considered that evidence of his qualification for the highest executive office in the nation?

Yeah, that boy's qualified . . . for dog-catcher . . . maybe . . .

I didn't think that was any worse that billzeebubba hikin it back to Arkansas to oversee the execution of a mentally ill man.

Careful...around these parts we aren't allowed to speak poorly of old Bubba Clinton. Didn't ya hear? He's a Saint! (patron saint of cheaters and liars that is)

My feelings about Edwards are ambivalent. On the one hand, everytime I see him and his trial lawyer smile, I have this strong visceral reaction: "Watch out: vacuum cleaner salesman -- latenight infomercial coming up!" (I know this is totally unfair and subjective. Chief justice John Roberts has a similar trial lawyer body language, but I never have the same reaction to him.) On the other hand, Edwards is talking a lot of sense every time I read him but don't see him. It's almost as if there's an Edwards I read and and an Edwards I watch, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

All of this is pretty weird. I don't really know what to make of John Edwards.

It's obvious the aim here is disruption and not discussion. adios for now. (To Republicans, that is equivelant of "Good-bye for now."