What I really really need to hear from a presidential wannabe right now,

The fact I even have to spell it out for them p*sses me off.

made a LIST.
I will Not... Spy on you.
I will Not... Torture anyone.
I will Not... Use Signing Statements.
I will Not... Allow the Justice Department to be used as a political ploy or weapon.
I will Not... Corrupt the Supreme Court of the United States.
I will Not...Lie to start illegal and immoral wars.
I will Not...Ignore evidence of War Crimes and High Treason.
I will Not... Pervert the Bill of Rights, nor allow anyone else to trod on them.
I will Not... Build secret prisons, or military bases.
I will Not... Set up secret courts, nor tolerate laws made in secret.
I will Not... Abuse Executive Privilege.
I will Not... Abuse congress, nor challenge their authority, as defined in the US Constitution.
I will Not... Allow national disasters and tragedies to be neglegted or overlooked.
I will Not... Allow my Secretaries to lie to you.
I will Not...Let my friends profit from the deaths of our soldiers.
I will Not... Tolerate war profiteering.
I will Not... Abuse and neglect the soldiers of the US Armed Forces.
I will Not... Give illegal or immoral orders as Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces.
I will Not... Deny the Geneva Conventions.
I will Not...Delay in restoring Habeus Corpus, and Posse Comitatus.
I will Not...allow illegal or immoral policies of prior presidents to stand.
I will Not...Embrace religious operatives into policy discussions, nor allow policy to be presented on religious grounds.
I will Not...Write any policy in secret.
I will Not...Let my administration hide or destroy documents.
I will Not...Dishonor Freedom of Information Act Requests.
I will Not...Start any more land wars in Asia.
I will Not...Allow lobbiests access to myself nor White House Staff.
I will Not... Let trillions and trillions of dollars remain missing.
I will Not...Let some son of a bitch kill 3000 US Citizens and then get away with it.
I will Not...Leave questions of 911 unanswered.
I will Not...Recklessly kill a million more people.

I don't want them to go blahblahblahblah and say everything EXCEPT that.

I want them to say it. I want to hear them say it.

Just say it Hillary. Or Obama.. Or Edwards.

"I will not torture people as president."

How freaking hard is it to simply be trust worthy?

It is what they are not saying that is most telling.

Posted by: Christy at August 19, 2007 05:17 PM
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