In this interview
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x145572between Scott McClellan and Keith Olbermann, McClellan once again criticizes not just the Bush administration but the culture of D.C., a culture in which getting elected is more important than doing what is right. Thank you, Scott McClellan.
Those in our party who refuse to consider impeachment or who say that impeachment would be a political mistake, is too late or can't succeed because there aren't enough votes in the Senate are furthering the shameful aspect of the D.C. culture that McClellan rightly criticizes.
Last spring, I watched as my Congressman spoke to a large assembly of constituents. One speaker rose and appealed to the congressman to support impeachment. Mind you, this was a random assembly of citizens. We had not attended as part of an organized impeachment effort. Most of us had never seen each other before the event. We certainly did not know that the issue of impeachment would be raised. Yet an overwhelming percentage of the audience clapped and cheered in agreement with the demand for impeachment. Americans who are informed about what has been going on support impeachment. Inform the rest of America through impeachment hearings and the entire country will demand impeachment.
The press, playing the game along with Congress, is suppressing information about the impeachment movement. It is even suppressing information about the Bush administration crimes.
Our Democratic Party -- or most of it at least -- also opposes the people on the issue of impeachment. I believe, based on what party leaders say that they are doing so in order to gain political advantage. They know they should impeach, but they would rather play the D.C. game. They adhere to the culture of D.C. Their first priority, perhaps their only priority, is to get themselves re-elected, to get themselves the money to run their next campaign, and not to rock the boat in order to male sure they get re-elected.
Senator Obama has promised to change the culture of our government. Yet he has stated that he does not support impeachment. That is a contradiction. Obama cannot change the culture of D.C. unless he demands honesty and integrity, unless he rejects the culture of focusing on winning the next election rather than governing well and honestly. Let us urge him to begin the process of change, of meaningful change, now, by supporting impeachment.
We Americans need real change and now. And the first step toward that change is telling the truth about the crimes of the Bush administration. And if Democrats were complicit in those crimes, so be it. Obama is his own man. He owes only the America people. He owes primarily only the youth of America. He owes them, he owes us all truly open, clean government. If he does not have the courage to risk impeachment hearings, and impeachment process, how in the world will he ever change D.C.?
It is time for Barack Obama to show us, to prove that he is a man of courage. It is time for Barack Obama to show us that Dennis Kucinich, tiny and unimpressive as Kucinich is, is not the only American politician with the courage to speak the truth\.
Please allow me to say for the record, I was never a Kucinich supporter, But I could easily become one if Obama cannot stand up for what is right and true and agree to either support impeachment or withdraw his disapproval of it.
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