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Bush, God's Chosen One


From the L.A. Times (June 25)
Promising lawyers and law students were rejected (from positions in the Justice Department) because of their political and ideological views, internal investigators say.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 25, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Scores of highly credentialed young lawyers and law students were denied interviews for coveted positions at the Justice Department because of an illegal screening process that took political and ideological views and affiliations into account rather than merit, Justice Department investigators concluded in a report released Tuesday.

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This above is the lead in a longish article about hiring at the Justice Department concerning the bias against moderate and liberal views and the refusal to grant interviews to highly qualified applicants who did not, however, answer certain questions "correctly."

Those receiving favorable review were born again, had attended an ultra-conservative religious law school and were pro-life.

Bush has amply demonstrated that he is not fit for public office in any capacity unless it is counting paper clips. What I find amazing is that criminal action is not being taken against him.

That any man can cloak himself in the mantle of Christianity and conduct himself as immorally and illegally as Bush has is a scandal far scarier than a sexual indiscretion. The senior Bush, whom I also thought not all that competent, is light years ahead of his son and is probably cringing under the bed.

xx, Teal

posted on June 25, 2008 6:18 PM ()

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comment by think141 on June 30, 2008 10:46 AM ()
You may call it a news story if you wish. I was misled into thinking it was an opinion piece by the bias that filled it. I totally forgot what passes for news in the "Times". The "reproter" states unreservedly that the screening process was illegal and floats a perspective that you have bought into completely:
The justice dept. (for God only knows what insane reason) is rejecting candidates because they are not Christian enough?
This is reality?
If you know me you know I am no Christian but I do know religious bigotry and bias in reporting when I see it.
comment by think141 on June 29, 2008 8:33 AM ()
Since your source is an opinion columnist at the L.A. Times don't you think a bit more scrutiny ought to be applied?
1. Where does this opinionater draw the line between liberal and conservative? And what's moderate by his reckoning?
2. Do you (as most progressives do) jerk reflexively to the word "discriminate"? You understand, don't you, that discrimination is essential to decision making? Hiring is hardly an exception to that rule even though Leftists wish it wasn't and have raised hell in the economy trying to eliminate their definition of descrimination from hiring practices. You wouldn't stop me from hiring a college grad over a H.S. dropout would you? But that is what discrimination means.
3. Just possibly (and I'm sure you would disagree) the criteria in this case was intended to select people grounded in reality rather than in flighty ideology. I'm just sayin'...
comment by think141 on June 27, 2008 8:49 AM ()
The criminality of this administration is a disgrace.
comment by marta on June 25, 2008 10:50 PM ()
Cringing under the bed.Laurie
comment by dogsalot on June 25, 2008 6:23 PM ()

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