Rev. Wright Leaves Obama Campaign
March 14th, 2008
This evening Senator Barack Obama denounced comments by his pastor Jeremiah Wright regarding the United States role in 9/11. Tonight Rev. Wright has resigned his position on Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee.
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May 8th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Interesting Presidential Campaign here 2008. It appears that Sen. Obama will win the Democratic candidate to run against Sen. McCain. As we all know red tape and time an investigation at the US Senate Ethic level takes.
Did you know that many highly respected US Politicians have stated the following:
That when a member, [as Sen. J. William Fulbright stated in the U.S. Senate in the early 1950s], that when a Senator’s gives the “implied behavior of The Moral Deterioration of American Democracy”, that that is a violate the Senate Code of Ethics.
In the early 1950s Sen. J. Williams Fulbright talked about “The Moral Deterioration of American Democracy”. He further states, “What should be done about men….. Which offend the spirit of the law, but do not violate its letter”? Sen. Fulbright elaborated further as follows; “One of the most distributing aspects of this problem of moral conduct is the revelation that among so many influence people, morality has become identical with legality. We certainly in a tragic plight if the accepted standard by which we measure the integrity of a man in public life is that he keep within the letter of the law.”
In 1950s a Task Force of house members, like Hal Hoggs and Gerald Ford drafted a propose code. “Precede any code of concrete conduct” which core was that “public office is a public trust” 97 Cong. Rec. 7176 (1951). They stated. “No code of conduct can hope to cover specifically the multitude of concrete situations which complex and vast sphere of contemporary government contains within itself”.
Chapter I, Under Introduction, it states: The U.S. Constitution, in article I, section 5, grants broad authority to Congress to discipline its members.
The committee which investigated Sen. Joeseph McCarthy stated the approached this distasteful task as follows:
“We begin with the premise that the Senate of the United States is a responsible political body, important in the maintaining of our free institution. Its Members are expected to conduct themselves with proper respect for the principles of ethics and morality, for senatorial customs based on tradition, and with due respect of the Senate as the highest legislative body in the Nation….”
As stated in the Senate Ethic Code, Chapter I, section C Jurisdiction of the Committee, the 83rd Congress the following was stated:
“Its seems clear that if a Senator should be guilty of reprehensible conduct unconnected with his official duties and position, which conduct brings the Senate into disrepute, the Senate has the power to censure”
As all it takes is the appearance of un-moral conduct while still staying within the letter of the law. Before the General election, the Republicans may have something to guarantee the President will be a Republican?