ABC News: First Campaign Barbs Tied to Jailed Man

ABC News: First Campaign Barbs Tied to Jailed Man:

"''Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?'' Geffen told Times' columnist Maureen Dowd.


"And then, referring to the Peltier case, Geffen continued, ''Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in.


"'Everybody in politics lies, but they [Bill and Hillary Clinton] do it with such ease, it's troubling,' Geffen said."

While I have no patience with Geffen's choice of the object of his solicitude - prison gang leader and convicted cop-killer Leonard Peltier - I find his comment on the Clinton's veracity wonderfully revealing.