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Fun Tidbit from Comey's Testimony
I wrote yesterday about how former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before Congress shed even more light on why Alberto Gonzales is unfit to be Attorney General, and why Gonzales' behavior during the warrantless wiretapping episode rendered his nomination disgraceful from the beginning. (For an in-depth examination of all of Comey's testimony, see Glenn Greenwald.)
Today, I found this entertaining tidbit from Comey's testimony. Comey is speaking with Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania.
SPECTER: Can you give us an example of an exercise of good judgment by Alberto Gonzales?
[Gap in testimony.]
SPECTER: Let the record show a very long pause.
COMEY: It's hard -- I mean, I'm sure there are examples. I'll think of some. I mean, it's hard when you look back. We worked together for eight months.
SPECTER: That's a famous statement of President Eisenhower about Vice President Nixon: "Say something good." "Give me two weeks."
COMEY: Right.
Full transcript available here.
It is very funny! But at the same time it pisses me off whenever I read the name of Gonzales to think that is a spanish name and one of the few spanish descendants who got to power, and not only is he corrupt to the medula, he is also incompetent!!!!
Please, do not think all of us are this bad!
Marcela --
Please, have no fear. I'm sure no member of the Mother Jones blog community thinks Alberto Gonzales' incompetence is indicative of the abilities of the Hispanic-American abilities as a whole.
If we took the failings of public figures as indictments of their races, George W. Bush would have made us write off the descendants of white Europeans a long time ago.