(Edited title) GW's rubber stamp.

[rn79870]

I'm still waiting for a post of substance form you WhiteFeather. How long am I going to have to wait?

[wingFeather]

I'm still waiting for a post of substance form you WhiteFeather. How long am I going to have to wait?

I'm still waiting for yours, too.

[rn79870]

I guess I'll stop waiting. Thanks for posting.

[wingFeather]

By the way, my name is WING feather, not whitefeather.

But speaking of "substance", your ordained leader, Obama himself, lives within the realm of fluff talk... so you should be used to (what you consider) fluff posts.

I mean with stuff like:

"I'm asking you to believe.""We are the ones we have been waiting for.""Yes, we can!""Change.""Hope."

How can you ridicule me, yet VOTE for a guy who is far more unsubstantial than I am?

[AZhitman]

I'm still waiting for Bobby to tell us how it can be that GWB is the FIRST prez since 1951 to send a man to execution under UCMJ, when 10 people have been executed by presidential approval since 1951.

[rn79870]

I may have been off by 10 years. Prior to the Texecutioner, Kennedy was the last person to review a death case, and Kennedy commuted the sentence. So, I may have been off by 8 to 10 years. At least, the 45 years prior to the texecutioner's watch, none had.

That makes Ike, (a president who proved generals don't make good presidents) a bad guy.

[wingFeather]

a president who proved generals don't make good presidents

Pardon the pun, but that is a GENERALalization if I've ever seen one!!!

[srellim234]

I guess George Washington was a terrible president.....

[AZhitman]

I may have been off by 10 years. Prior to the Texecutioner, Kennedy was the last person to review a death case, and Kennedy commuted the sentence. So, I may have been off by 8 to 10 years. At least, the 45 years prior to the texecutioner's watch, none had.

That makes Ike, (a president who proved generals don't make good presidents) a bad guy.

So who OK'ed the other 9 executions?

[rn79870]

I can't find anything on the other 9. dunno.

Did find this from a law school prof...

Monday's decision showed Bush's resolve to act, said Scott Silliman, a professor at Duke University law school who practiced law in the Air Force for 25 years.

"When you cut everything aside, this is a very personal decision," Silliman said. "The president is basically saying, 'I'm going to put someone to death.'

"It's a very political issue in this country," he said. "No president up until Bush has wanted to take that on."

In his nearly six years as governor of Texas, Bush presided over 152 executions, more than any governor in recent history.

Sort of supports my initial thrust that Bush is a little different.

[96Qowner]

I can't find anything on the other 9. dunno.

Took me less than 5 minutes to find it, on Wiki, of all places:

9 by Ike, one by JFK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...itary

[rn79870]

I don't use Wiki. Why, let me go edit that article and I'll show you why.

But I'll accept your score, Rep's 10Dem's 1

That, to me, says it all.

[AZhitman]

We got it, you oppose the death penalty.

Tell that to the Dem who was in office when the UCMJ was approved, and all Dems since who failed to do anything about it.

I don't have an issue with it, and apparently neither did 10 GOP presidents and one Dem.