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2008 Candidates on ex-Attorney General« Thread Started on Aug 28, 2007, 12:58am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------2008 Candidates on GonzalesBy Michael Falconeread at source> http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007 ... onzales/At least four of the Democratic presidential candidates used the same phrase to describe the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: “long overdue.” Republican contenders Mitt Romney and Rudolph W. Giuliani both praised Mr. Gonzales for his public service, but Mr. Romney went a step further, saying that the attorney general “made the right decision to step aside.”Though her Senate office, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been calling for the resignation of Mr. Gonzales since March, said that although the attorney general “took an oath to uphold our Constitution and respect the rule of law … time and time again, he demonstrated that his loyalties lie with the President and his political agenda, not the American people or the evenhanded and impartial enforcement of our laws”:In his actions and inaction, from warrantless wiretaps to the firing of United States attorneys, his loyalty was to the president, not the American people.