Reply #4: Jack Cafferty has stuck his neck out on so many occaisions.Despite his faux pas I love him [View All]

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12/16/05
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, good afternoon.

Who cares about whether the Patriot Act gets renewed? Want to abuse our civil liberties? Just do it.
Who cares about the Geneva Conventions. Want to torture prisoners? Just do it.
Who cares about rules concerning the identity of CIA agents. Want to reveal the name of a covert operative? Just do it.
Who cares about whether the intelligence concerning WMDS is accurate. Want to invade Iraq? Just do it.
Who cares about qualifications to serve on the nation's highest court. Want to nominate a personal friend with no qualifications? Just do it. And the latest outrage, which I read about in "The New York Times" this morning, who cares about needing a court order to eavesdrop on American citizens. Want to wiretap their phone conversations? Just do it. What a joke. A very cruel, very sad joke.

Here's the question. Was it appropriate for the president to order wiretaps on American citizens without obtaining a warrant? E- mail us at [e-mail] or you can go to CNN.com/cafferty file--Wolf.


02/15/06
I get a lot of mail and depending on what we read they say you're a conservative or a liberal, you're a Republican or a Democrat.

This isn't about any of that stuff. I don't think so.

It's about what's right and what's wrong.

There's a perception in this country that we were lied to about the run up to the war in Iraq. Maybe we were, maybe we weren't. But there are a lot of people who think we were.
And a half a trillion dollars and 2000 of our kids later, we're still there. We're mired in a thing that has no visible end.
If it was necessary and if the threats were real. Fine and dandy.
But if they lied to us. If there was some kind of intent to deceive. Then they ought to find out who did it and tear their fingernails out -- then get rid of them.
And it's not about being on one side of the poltical spectrum or the other.
It's about what's right and what's wrong. And about what people who are entrusted to govern this country do with the power we give them.
If it's being abused, we damn well have a right to know.
And something should be done about it."

4/28/09

It's time for the Republican Party to tell former Vice President Dick Cheney to put a sock in it.
Here we are 100 days into the new administration of Barack Obama, and Darth Vader is still wandering around grumbling about why the new administration is all wrong.
Nobody is interested anymore, Mr. Vice President. You and your gaggle of miscreants had your shot, and we are in the toilet because of it. Don't you get it?
The election of this nation's first African-American president and his massacre of John McCain in the Electoral College is because of you and President Bush and the myriad problems you left us all with.
If the Republican Party has any hopes of redeeming itself in the eyes of the voters, they must distance themselves from the likes of Dick Cheney and the fundamentalist right-wingers who have become the poster children of political intolerance in this country.