"If you can indict a ham sandwich, is the pickle an accomplice?"

COMMENTARY: JOHN KELSO
If you can indict a ham sandwich, is the pickle an accomplice?

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

When big shots like Tom DeLay get busted, you'll often hear a chorus of "If you wanted to, you could indict a ham sandwich."

This is a common way of saying an indictment doesn't mean squat; it's the proving part that's hard. Google "indict a ham sandwich" and you'll get 11,700 hits.

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But it made me wonder: Is this ham sandwich remark accurate? Is it really so easy to indict somebody that you could indict a ham sandwich? I'd figure for starters, the district attorney would have to have something on the ham sandwich, besides mustard and a pickle.

Or is this just another case of people whining?

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And there you have it. I'm getting the feeling that unlike DeLay, the ham sandwich won't be in court soon.

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/10/4kelso.html

The only reason I can read the Statesman.

accessories after the fact?

friends all the time if the US has ever had any other 1st Lady that has killed someone....... other than Laura Bush.