Presidential hopeful former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) is making a "BIG" push this morning to pressure Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign.
In an e-mail that also solicits donations, Edwards' campaign manager Joe Trippi asks supporters to deliver a "simple message" to the embattled top attorney.
"Remember the Constitution that you were sworn to uphold? Remember what this country stands for? Remember the laws you were supposed to defend? If you do, then do what is right — just once — and resign."
"But then again, maybe it has been so long since Gonzales read the Constitution that he forgot what this great document says," Trippi adds. "Let's remind him."
The message also says Gonzales has "no respect for the rule of law, our rights and freedoms, or the Constitution," and says he "helped enable torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and illegal spying on Americans."
Trippi said for each signature, the Edwards campaign will send Gonzales a copy of the Constitution. And "With your help, we can send Gonzales a really BIG message."
The BIG message? If the campaign gets 25,000 signatures, "We're going to put them at the bottom of the largest copy of the Constitution you have ever seen, and deliver it straight to Gonzales' office at the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Department building in Washington, D.C. How big a copy of the Constitution? Big. Really big."
-- Christina Bellantoni, National political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (8)
Please send Joe Trippi this message:
You and Mr. edwards should get a life....
Posted by Dr. J. Robert Mueller | July 30, 2007 2:56 PM
I'm glad that Edwards is speaking up for we Americans that are both angered and terrified at the things that this administration has gotten away with. Censure? Impeachment? I'd go as far as Treason!
Posted by Ted Halpin | July 30, 2007 3:20 PM
Do not forget that he was he was involved in the firing of the attorneys and purging of over one million ethnic voters from their voters registration of which each is a felony.
Posted by Jon Echols | July 30, 2007 3:37 PM
Gonzales, you have damaged the United States of America and you have flat out "blatenly" broken the law.
You must leave office immediately!
Posted by Jason Wasaff | July 30, 2007 3:38 PM
Mr Gonzalez, you have dragged America through the mud in your effort to support the administration's thinking. Your memory cannot be as faulty as your testimony indicates or you would be hospitalized with Alzheimers. While it would be too much to ask that you honestly communicate the nefarious role you played as GWB's legal lag dog, you have been caught in so many transparent lies it is not too much to expect you to do what's best for the U.S. and resign.
Posted by Paul Fox | July 30, 2007 3:52 PM
Hang in there Gonzales. It is just another political witchhunt. Remember Janet Reno after WACO, she hung in there and stayed on, and her crimes were a lot worse than yours. For yours, no one has died, especially innocent children.
Posted by Dennis | July 30, 2007 9:09 PM
Someone needs to ask the Senator what he has done to protect the country since 911? Vote to approve over 300 hearings in lieu of an integrated immigration, homeland defense, national security bill? To some that may be an equitable trade off, but it should signal a need for national term limits to deal with immediate real issues and not the embedded pursuit of political power for powers sake only.
Posted by Larry Stone | July 31, 2007 2:43 AM
Mr. Gonzales, you are presumed innocent until a jury of your peers has determined in a court of law that you have broken one or more laws and should receive punishment.
Mr. Gonzales, stay in your position, do not resign. No court of law has determined that you have violated any laws. Do not let people pressure you in resigning simply because they don't like you or your political associations.
Posted by Ray | July 31, 2007 10:13 AM