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the right apparently thinks that if rove presents his case as directed at a legal process up front that it can skirt the political damage this case can and should do to it.
as an individual endowed with the same legal rights as anyone (albeit skewed in that all american way by power and money--so in fact someone like karl rove has more legal rights than someone like me or you, mr mephisto), rove should be tried and the trial would determine whether he is or is not guilty of a crime.
the political question is seperate. rove should resign. there should be political pressure brought to bear that would force him to resign. this matter can and to my mind should serve as a lightning rod, a space across which the bush administration is held to account for the politics of impunity that it has practiced since 9/12/2001.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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