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Warning: This Blog Contains Politics.
Published:
2/15/2008 10:47 AM
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2/15/2008 10:47 AM
Regarding Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee and politics:
--Here's the worst thing about the Clemens stuff. Who needs a lawyer to help them tell the truth? That's what we've sunk to in society.
--One of Clemens' lawyers said that, by testifying, they hope Clemens can win in the court of public opinion. Sorry, but the public will not side with Clemens because the public cannot identify with a guy who makes a jillion dollars per year and gets special treatment from his employers in terms of not having to accompany the team at all times. When Clemens came out of retirement in pursuit of megabucks, he became a person John Q. Public won't root for, even if innocent.
--McNamee is supposedly going to go back to school and may even pursue a law degree. Perhaps he saw how much money lawyers are going to make over this whole fiasco.
--What? Clemens may get pardoned by George Bush because the Republicans were meaner to him than the Democrats? Get out of here with that stuff.
Party lines shouldn't be followed in politics, much less baseball.
Democrats and Republicans are equally silly and they are the same animal. Republicans would rather get other Republicans elected than serve their constituents. Democrats would rather get other Democrats elected than serve their constituents.
Remember when you wanted to do something your friends were doing and your parents said "if they jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?"
People who vote strictly along party lines are jumping off that cliff. Apparently, a cliff was jumped during the Clemens ordeal, making it even more shameful.
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Nit Picker
(5 years ago)
This may be a revolutionary idea, but here goes anyway:
To: MLB/US Congress,
Step1. Charge Roger Clemens with the crime of using illegal steroids.
Step2. Convict him, if you can, in a court of law, in a fair trial.
Step3. Then you may waste your time, and our money, on stupid "he said, she said" hearings.
If you fail in Step2, forget Step3 and start governing this country.
john
(5 years ago)
Bush will pardon Clemens because they have a personal friendship. It's similar to Reagan pardoning Steinbrenner. Abuse and misuse of executive power, but when has Bush ever abided by such discretion?
Nit Picker
(5 years ago)
John:
How can you pardon someone who has not been convicted of a crime?
Abuse of executive power: Check out Bill Clinton's last minute pardons if you want to see some of that.
You are a World Picker Brown Noser. What are you doing reading a newspaper?
Go blow your nose.
John
(5 years ago)
PolSci 101. A President may announce a pardon before indictment or conviction. Thus, Bush is free to pardon Clemens as he wishes. I have never defended Clinton in my life, so I will not start now.
Nit Picker
(5 years ago)
John:
PolSci is a freshman level liberal arts course. You flunked.
Common sense, and the law, says: no crime, no pardon.
Facts (at this point in time): No charge, no crime, ergo no pardon.
I agree, there is absolutely no way to defend Bill Clinton.
Jimbo
(5 years ago)
Jimmie, you should do more political blogging.
sbtulsa
(5 years ago)
to be honest, I don't know who to believe. but here's my opinion of this circus.
john Q. public will not feel sorry for Roger Clemens. where is the sense in a guy who already makes a lifetime of living wages in two years or so of a contract, cheating with 'roids and hgh just to get still richer. or maybe its ego and he wants to be the "gretest" no matter what.
who can relate to a guy who takes advantage of access to congressmen by lobbying each one on his own behalf? lots of money plus access that 99% of can't or don't have equals a black eye in the public eye.
sit still roger and take your medecine. you're not gong down in baseball history, just going down period.
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