Tuesday, February 13, 2007

things i miss about the clinton administration

1) conan's cut-out of bill clinton (yee-haw!)
2) reunification of fleetwood mac
3) JANET RENO DANCE PARTY
4) hilary as quasi-socialist instead of hilary as hawk

not to mention:

In 1996, Rodi Alvarado, a young Guatemalan, sought asylum because, she claimed, her husband had brutally beat her and had repeatedly raped and sodomized her. Moreover, the Guatemalan authorities had refused to protect her, saying it was a domestic matter. Like Vallabhaneni, she so feared for her life that she left her children behind and fled to the U.S. There has been profound disagreement among U.S. authorities over how to deal with Alvarado, whose credibility was never in question. An immigration judge granted her asylum, but the government attorneys appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which ruled that Alvarado’s husband didn’t brutalize her because she was a woman but rather because she was his wife. The board ordered her removed to Guatemala. Then Attorney General Janet Reno stepped in, as she was permitted to do, and vacated Alvarado’s deportation order. In her last days in office, Reno also proposed a set of regulations that recognized that a credible claim for asylum could be made based on domestic violence if it was severe and if the country in question was unwilling to do anything about such abuse.

i hate you, alberto gonzales.

2 comments:

cold4thestreets said...

Dude, Conan still does the Clinton cut-out. Shit. Conan still does "In the Year 2000." But, still, point taken. Nothing beats Janet Reno Dance Party. How about Douglas Feith Paper Shredding Wine and Chees?

E said...

or the dick cheney faceoff?