Hey Barry, Ever Hear Of The Logan Act?
And would somebody please tell Godbama that he’s not president and consequently not authorized to negotiate with foreign governments?:
While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Senator Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.
Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
Guess what, O Most Low? It doesn’t matter what you “insist”. You. Are. Not. President. Of. The. United. States. It is the power and privilege of the individual who still does hold that office for another one hundred twenty six days to speak for the United States of America on the global stage, and that individual is still George W. Bush.
Let’s go through this again:
The Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.
The text of the Act is broad and is addressed at any attempt of a US citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority. However, there is no record of any convictions or even prosecutions under the Logan Act.
Now would be a splendid time to “inaugurate” a prosecution of the Chicago Cherubim under that statute, wouldn’t you say? A parting gift from the retiring forty-third Chief Executive?
Not only did False Messiah illegally try to chop Dubya off at the knees, but it’s not awfully difficult to see what his highly Clintonoian motivation was. He’s finally admitted that the Surge strategy worked; if he could go around the Bush Administration and convinced Nouri al-Maliki to delay the departure of U.S. forces by an extra year past when he’s been “insisting” upon, thus humiliating GDub, but it increases the likelihood that he would be able to claim credit for the victory and bask in the glory that would be leeched from our men and women in uniform and slavishly heaped upon him by the Enemy Media.
I do strive to exercise an almost Vulcan emotional discipline when I behold such outrages, but this one, I must admit, incenses me so much as to make it difficult to see straight.
But have no fear, gentlebeings, there is a punchline. With Barack Obama, there’s ALWAYS a punchline. In this case, his attempt at a denial of Amir Taheri’s story ended up confirming it:
Obama’s national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Taheri’s article bore “as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.”
In fact, Obama had told the Iraqis that they should not rush through a “Strategic Framework Agreement” governing the future of US forces until after President George W. Bush leaves office, she said.
Well, I guess that’s a testament to the 100% veracity of Sailor’s marketing team, because what Morigi says her boss told the Iraqi government is PRECISELY WHAT AMIR TAHERI WROTE. Is it any wonder that Rush Limbaugh has taken to play rimshots after every Rogaine Messiah audio clip?
‘Tis a pity the Donk Senate won’t lift a finger to investigate the gross violation of the Separation of Powers. A greater pity still that if the GOP still ran the Senate they wouldn’t have anywhere close to the stones to pull the trigger on such a probe. And the greatest pity of all is that the Bushies never would have either, and certainly won’t now as they play out the remaining string, which Barry is so arrogantly intent on prematurely and presumptuously reeling in.
BO belongs in the Greybar Hotel, not the White House.
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