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Title: Fitzgerald, Gonzales to Rub Shoulders on Roundtable
Source: TPM Muckraker.com
URL Source: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002887.php
Published: Mar 27, 2007
Author: Paul Kiel
Post Date: 2007-03-27 15:35:28 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 264
Comments: 15

Fitzgerald, Gonzales to Rub Shoulders on Roundtable

By Paul Kiel - March 27, 2007, 12:17 PM

From The Chicago Tribune:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is likely to face questions about the allegedly mediocre status of U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald when he arrives here Tuesday for a scheduled round table discussion and press conference.

Gonzales is supposed to be at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse to discuss the "Project Safe Childhood" campaign designed to protect kids from online predators. But he's likely to be asked to field inquiries about Fitzgerald being ranked as undistinguished on a chart sent to the White House from the Justice Department in 2005, as well as the controversial fall firings of a group of U.S. attorneys.

We'll get you word of how that went later. Via Firedoglake.

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Gonzales is so interested in protecting children from predators.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-27   15:35:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Sort of reminds me of all the concerns that the pervert foley has/had.

rowdee  posted on  2007-03-27   15:39:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

We saw what Janet Reno, et. al did when she wanted to protect the chillrun at Waco.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-03-27   15:41:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Sort of reminds me of all the concerns that the pervert foley has/had.

exactly

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-27   16:09:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I wonder what happened that made Gonzales leave the Air Force Academy at the end of his first year there.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-27   16:12:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

serving for two years at Fort Yukon, Alaska before being accepted to the United States Air Force Academy in 1975. In 1977, he transferred to Rice University, where he was a member of Lovett College and earned a degree in political science in 1979; he never completed the remaining two years of his USAF obligation;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales

I've never heard of Rice University.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-27   16:17:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I thought he lasted two years at the USAFA.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-03-27   16:18:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I stand corrected. Robin's posting shows you're right.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-27   16:23:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I've never heard of Rice University.

A private, high-dollar institution in Houston.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-03-27   16:24:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Rice University.

A private, high-dollar institution in Houston.

I wonder how Gonzales could afford it, and I wonder how normal it is not to fulfill a 2 year obligation with USAF.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-27   16:28:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Guessing some affirmative action initiative, and he could have fagged his way out of the service back in those days.

Who knows?

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Lod  posted on  2007-03-27   16:41:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Is Affirmative Action that old? This was in the late 70s. There weren't many grants back then and no student loans (I don't think).

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-27   17:12:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Affirmative action derives from an executive order of LBJ's, and really got going under Nixon. Clarence Thomas was an early beneficiary of affirmative action.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-27   17:16:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

There weren't many grants back then and no student loans (I don't think).

There were grants, loans, student-aid, all kinds of stuff back in '65 when I started college. Of course back then you could take up to eighteen hours at any state of TX institution and pay $50 plus a few bucks in various "fees" per semester. Yes, that's per semester, not semester hour, as they charge now.

I've mentioned that my dad thought that room & board for $35/month was a royal rip-off...the deflation power of fiat currency over forty-two years is amazing.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-03-27   17:25:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Thanks, for some reason I wasn't aware of it until the 80s.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-27   17:32:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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