Pardon for Scooter Libby?

This blog features a series of regularly updated, brief essays regarding the possible presidential pardon of "Scooter" Libby with an emphasis on history, law and empirical research. The creator is ProfessorP.S. Ruckman, Jr., author of the forthcoming book, Pardon Me, Mr. President: Adventures in Crime, Politics and Mercy .

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Obama, Still Tuned In

Andrew Sullivan provides this transcript of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's speech this morning, in Atlanta

I’m not talking about a budget deficit. I’m not talking about a trade deficit. I’m not talking about a deficit of good ideas or new plans. I’m talking about a moral deficit ...
Obama then went on to list dozens of examples of the "deficit" that he has in mind. Right near the top of the list:

We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others; when our children see nooses hanging from a schoolyard tree today, in the present, in the twenty-first century.

One wonders if anyone will ever ask Obama for a detailed analysis of either case. I suspect not.

posted by P.S. Ruckman, Jr. | 4:59 PM