Bush avoids service - again
Just when I thought there was nothing to blog about today...
President W was summoned for jury duty service on Monday but didn't show up. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday that the president intends to serve, just not on Monday. Scotty went on to blather, "We have since called the court to inform them that the president has other commitments on Monday and that he would like to reschedule his jury duty. We will be working with the court to reschedule his jury duty. ... Jury duty is an important civic responsibility and it's important that people do serve." Blah, blah, blah. Maybe W was still working on the 1972 Alabama U.S. Senate campaign of family friend Winton "Red" Blount. W couldn't be busy working on any strategy for Iraq because the Corrupticans already have one - clap louder and stay the course up until the time you cut-and-race walk to the exits.
What's interesting about this is that last month Sen. John Kerry was summoned for jury duty in Massachusetts and showed up for his service. Not only that he was elected foreman of the jury which rejected a claim by two men who sued the city of Boston for injuries suffered in a car accident involving a school principal.
So once again W avoids a summons to serve as required and Kerry shows up and serves. Hmmmmmm. Where have I heard that story before? Maybe here and here for example? Seems to run in the family as just a month ago one of the president's daughters, Barbara, turned up on the jury list and also needed a postponement. No word on whether W's daughter Barbara completed her national guard duty or is also working on some family friend's U.S. Senate campaign. My guess is no.
So The story makes me cranky but the fact I found two bookend-type stories cracks a smile, internally that is. What a conflict for a curmudgeon.
posted by Crankyboy at 10:20 AM
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Barbara not showing up for jury duty means some defendent and a few lawyers and at least on judge got a break.
Would you wan't some little bimbobrat deciding your future?
IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.
If Teheran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only "a few months" to produce a nuclear bomb, El-Baradei told The Independent.
On the other hand, he warned, any attempt to resolve the crisis by non-diplomatic means would "open a Pandora's box. There would be efforts to isolate Iran; Iran would retaliate; and at the end of the day you have to go back to the negotiating table to find the solution."
The piece, titled "El Baradei: Iran only months away from a bomb," takes a comment Baradei made to the British newspaper The Independent completely out of context.
According to the Independent, Baradei said he wasn't sure if the Iranians were building a nuclear weapon:
Did he believe the Iranians were building a nuclear weapon? "The jury's out," he said. "It's difficult to read their intention. We're still going through the programme to make sure it's all for peaceful purposes.
"I know they are trying to acquire the full fuel cycle. I know that acquiring the full fuel cycle means that a country is months away from nuclear weapons, and that applies to Iran and everybody else."
The Jerusalem Post, meanwhile, turned Baradei on his head -- not only ignoring the fact that he said he wasn't sure Iran was developing a nuclear weapon, but also adding "will" where Baradei had said "could":
IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.
If Teheran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only "a few months" to produce a nuclear bomb, El-Baradei told The Independent.
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