Clinton/Obama feud comes down to a South Dakota Connection
The sharpest political snipes among the Democratic 2008 presidential hopefuls can be traced beyond media mogul David Geffen to a jailed man named Leonard Peltier.Read it all here.Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977 for allegedly gunning down a pair of FBI agents in a shootout at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, was one of the primary reasons cited by media mogul David Geffen for jumping ship from New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign in favor of fellow Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
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In 2001, Geffen, a key Democratic supporter with deep pockets and influence among Hollywood's elite, was one of many high-profile backers of a clemency campaign for Peltier, an American Indian activist, during the final days of Bill Clinton's presidency.
FBI supporters, however, fought back, launching an aggressive campaign of their own to keep a man who they believed killed two agents behind bars. Among their tactics were full-page newspaper ads and a march on the White House to influence Clinton's decision.
Ultimately, Peltier was left off a list of 140 people granted presidential pardons by Clinton during his second term.
Actually, it's also my understanding that former Governor Bill Janklow deserves significant credit at keeping this cop killer in jail. The story goes that Bill Clinton was going to do it until Janklow personally spent some time with him, showing him the file of how Peltier gunned down these agents, leaving widows and fatherless children in his wake.
To this day, after being tried and convicted by a jury of his peers, Peltier remains in Leavenworth where he belongs. We can only hope that those who we elect to the office of president have the sound wisdom and judgment to leave him there to serve out his sentence.
You can go here to learn more at the No Parole Peltier Association about what really happened.
Comments
There are a lot of reasons to not vote for Hillary Clinton, but only a HollyNut flake could use this one
Can I assume you are a member of the Republican party? And if so can we say that, based on your post, the Republican party in a nutshell spews accusations with no backing?
Furthermore, Obama has not renounced Geffen's support and as such that support carries with the baggage we are reading about now.
Obama is too inexperienced, too far left, and way too wrong on how to best defend this country from those want to do us harm to be elected anyway.
The guy is to the left of America on the war, taxes, social issues...last time the D's had a candidate like that they got crushed...McGovern Style!
It it true that McGovern's own precinct didn't even vote for him?
freepeltier.org
Instead feel free to discuss the orphans left behind in the wake of Calvary cowardliness. Don't forget that the 7th Calvary was awarded medals for murdering unarmed people seeking shelter from the December elements.
Don't forget to add in unsolved border town murders that left Indian children without a father.
Don't take the justice system to a level it doesn't deserve. It makes mistakes and other time is vehemently retaliates.
Bruce Whalen
If you really want to get into a discussion about domestic or political terrorism, bring your best.
Bruce Whalen