When Eric Holder’s minions are in the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit making arguments cribbed directly from the Bush playbook, you know this isn’t “change we can believe in.” The legal argument, “We may or may not have tortured people, but it’s a state secret so keep your nose out of Uncle Sam’s business,” has infuriated even the normally pro-Obama NYT. And really, I can’t blame them. Closing Gitmo is starting to look like little more than political theater…
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February 11, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I agree that PRESIDENT Obama should show he means what he said on the campaign trail.
As he criticized the Bush administration on the torture issue, he should stand up and correct the wrong, but not be a typical Illinois politician. May be he is behaving like typical politician who will say one thing for getting elected and same old story once elected. Is Eric Holder any better, spouting about torture in conformation hearing and forgetting afterwards? This is typical POLITICAL Theater… “Free” and “admiring” Press should ask Obama on it!!!!!!
February 11, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Obama as a master of political theater and lacking political substance? Sounds exactly like the very solid claim from a certain Democratic challenger of his in the primaries last year. A little birdie in my ear says was the junior senator from New York. And you know what, she was right then. Just wait for the asphalt contracts to go to Illinois’ finest…