Obama has put Eric Holder on his committee to select a Vice-Presidential candidate for the Democrats. This is the same Eric Holder who was slated to be Attorney General under President Gore. Holder's most notable achievement was getting a pardon for the fugitive tax cheat Marc Rich. It is of course why Clinton gave a pardon to such a notorious figure, though some unkind people have pointed to the ex Mrs. Rich's donations to Democrats and the Clinton Library. I suppose we can assume that under a President Obsma with Attorney General Holder, justice will be for sale. That is a change from the present, but is also a revision to the past. Here is what they always humorous Henry Waxman had to say about the Rich pardon:

Rep. Henry Waxman declared that it was a “bad precedent, an end run around the judicial process, and appeared to set a double standard for the wealthy and powerful” and that had a Republican president “presided over a pardon process that resembled the chaotic mess that seemingly characterized the final days of the Clinton administration, I would be outraged and would criticize it.”

In other words, Republicans couldn't get away with stuff like that. But, in case a Democrat does it, Henry can't be expected to say much. There is no doubt that under Democrats there is a double standard for the rich and powerful. Anyone who doubts that should ask himself why most of the rich and powerful are Democrats. It seems unlikely to me that very many of those who did whatever it took to get rich suddenly became altruistic.