Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?

Real simple. I support Obama, but I wish he had more experience. I actually like Palin's displayed personality, but I wish she had demonstrated more focus in her education. As someone who interviews and hires for a living, 5 colleges in 6 years, coupled with the lack of any sort of graduate education is an awful low bar to set for a potential president of the United States, but this is a democracy, and if the American People feel she is the best qualified to lead us, it shall be. We are still the best country on the planet. I just wish we set the bar somewhat higher for our leaders.

Doesn't this case allegedly stem from the non-firing of a trooper who admitted to using a taser on his 10-year old stepson? If someone is capable of such a horrific act, do any of his statements merit our belief? He should have been fired, regardless of the victim's relation to the Governor. Such a use of a weapon is unacceptable and grounds for immediate dismissal.

There is likely no merit in the Monegan ethics complaint against Governor Sarah Palin and Sarah Palin should not have to wait until her sister disappeared before she intervened. Even if there was any merit to the complaint one could argue convincingly that it would have been prudent for her to intervene in this case given the recent publicity regarding the disappearance and death respectively of the last two wives of former and now retired Police Sergeant Drew Peterson in Bolingbrook Illinois a Chicago suburb, the Crandon Wisconsin apartment homecoming party shooting deaths of six young adults including the former girlfriend of a 20-year-old Crandon Wisconsin deputy and Crandon police officer Tyler Peterson who took his own life last October before his apprehension, the death of the nine-month pregnant girlfriend of convicted former Ohio police officer Bobby Cutts whose two year old son broke the case with the statement that mommy is in the rug, and the pending murder trial of Pennsylvania State Trooper and homicide investigator Kevin Foley for the stabbing murder of the soon to be dentist ex-husband of his live-in girlfriend that occurred two days before the effective date of the final divorce decree. Sarah Palin should not have to have waited until her sister disappeared before she intervened in the trooper case. In the Foley case, Pennsylvania Trooper Kevin Foley lived with the estranged wife of a dentist who was viciously stabbed to death and thrown through the window of his own home less than two years ago. Pennsylvania State Trooper Foley specialized in homicide investigations and allegedly had been quoted as repeatedly stating in a State Police barracks break room in front of other State Troopers and supervisors as wishing that the dentist ex-husband would be killed in a car wreck or would otherwise die. Reportedly, his fellow state troopers did not take his threats seriously although they told him to stop making the threats against the now deceased dentist. Remember also in the Drew Peterson case, there were 18 eighteen separate domestic disturbance calls to the Drew Peterson residence outside Chicago.

Remember also in the Drew Peterson case, there were 18 eighteen separate domestic disturbance calls to the Drew Peterson residence outside Chicago.

In the eighteen separate domestic disturbance calls to his home, Drew Peterson was never arrested or charged by his fellow officers with whom he worked. The only person ever charged by his fellow officers in all of Petersons domestic violence cases was his now deceased former third wife. Any investigation into the conduct of her ex-brother-in-law trooper by his own department, the Alaska State Police and Pubic Safety Commissioner, should have been viewed with the same skepticism as the eighteen separate investigations into the conduct of Drew Peterson by his fellow officers. It clearly can be argued that the prudent course of action was for Governor Sarah Palin to intervene given the almost near universal blue wall of silence that often prevents investigation of police misconduct by their fellow officers, superiors, and even other outside law enforcement agencies.

It is no coincidence that the original revelations of police misconduct from the Rodney King beating to CBS News Katie Couric recent expose on corruption in Chicago City Police drug task force involves independent third party produced from non-police sources actual video camera documentation of misconduct including separate incidents of beating up of innocent bar patrons and a female bartender by the officers involved. Chicago Police Officer Keith Herrera has gone public and admitted his involvement. A Chicago Police officer implicated was audiotaped conspiring to murder his fellow officers to prevent further investigation of wrongdoing that included multiple and systematic thefts of drugs and money from drug dealers and falsification of police reports and sworn affidavits. The revelation of misconduct did not come from so-called good officers coming forward to report on the misconduct of their co-worker fellow officers. Only when there is independent non-police produced videotape footage documenting police misconduct or dead bodies happen to turn up as in the Atlanta wrongful drug bust and shooting murder of a 92 year old grandmother Kathryn Johnston in her own home, does a successful investigation and prosecution go forward.

Thanks Duck Soup and Lee-USA you have said everything I wantede to say after I read this abyssmal report. MOre of the same! When will we learn?

Thank you Lee-USA! You have said exactly what I was thinking. The only thing I would add is that McCain's lawyer is providing the muscle to try and get this subpoena slowed down, so he is aiding and abetting this scoffing of the rules, laws and Constitution of the USA! More of the same. When will it end?

Look at this travesty. The troopergate terminator!

This is really the most astounding abdication of responsibility in the history of American politics. For a long period of time in very recent history, the Republicans controlled the Executive - indeed Bush claimed a "mandate" after 04 whose political capital he was going to "spend" alright. The Republicans controlled the House. The Republicans controlled the Senate. Increasingly, the Republicans control our courts. And somehow they now claim the Democrats are responsible for all the Republican failures? It's ridiculous.

If Americans vote for Republicans, the clear message is that their failures and abdication of responsibility are just fine. If I were a Republican, more than ever would I vote for Obama. I would want to send my party a message: shape up!

Just kidding you Ms. Doubtfire!

To ladylawyer: it is doughtful, not doubtful. (Add another "l" if you wish).

What does Palin have to hide?I don't know how the investigation could go anywhere without evidence to support the allegation.No wonder her approval ratings are in decline and like Nixon the coverup will hurt their campaign more than the investigation itself could ever have done.

So, what is the point of an election? Lawyers and Beaurcrats Rule!

To: ladylawyer- interesting comment you made "we run the country". Yes, you do!

To ladylawyer. I work with lawyers all day long! My Uncle was a Judge. (He was a liberal Democrat, appointed by a Republican Governor - best friend was a black Conserative Judge, who is still in the National Guard). I say "was" because he has passed on. Isn't time we stop this?

Palin is a pustule, Biden is a blister, Obama is a bruise, McCain is a sore.

It is called a contingency fee, and I am not sure I understand your comment? And what is wrong with lawyers? We run the country. Sorry, but true and for a reason. It is a GOOD thing to know the law. You won't be spewing your lawyer BS if you actually need one and find a good one that is willing to work for YOU, which I find doubtful, quasqueton.

To Mr. Duck - I assume you were in VietNam?