Friday, October 28, 2005

 

After This, We'll Get Him To Reexamine The JFK Assassination

I've got to say -- I'm now watching Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference on CSPAN (I read the transcript earlier today), and he's been speaking extemporaneously for over an hour straight. I've seen him glance -- GLANCE, mind you -- at his notes precisely once. He is frighteningly methodical and scrupulous about his speech, and takes his oath as a prosecutor with deadly seriousness. But after untold years of watching plodding speeches read by politicians, what's bracing to me is the extemporaneous speaking, by a strong trial lawyer. Like John Roberts, he's glib, has an encyclopedic memory for his evidence, and is mindful of what he can and cannot say.

But I envision him at a game board with Bush, who's playing checkers, while Fitzgerald is playing "speed chess."

And quickly taking away all Bush's pawns, one by one.

posted by Michael 9:14 PM