Thursday, January 22, 2009

And People Wonder Why I Am Cynical

News Item: Hoyer: Obama Unlikely to Investigate Torture. Obama talks right pretty, but he is, in the end, an empty-suit liberal.

Added Bonus Snark: America won't torture... unless it is necessary.

Friday Update:Glenn Greenwald calls Bullshit.
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5 comments:

  1. You can float the "post-partisan" meme or you can indict your predecessors.

    You can't do both.

    A plurality of Americans still would keep Gitmo open. That's where the country's at.

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  2. You also can't say that no one is above the law but in the next breath say "Let's just forget about the past and move forward."

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  3. That Greenwald post shows new polling data.

    Interesting shift.

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  4. Interesting shift.

    Yes it is and the Obamaites ignore it at their peril.

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  5. It may simply reflect the portion of the American populace who are willing to trust the president.

    That is, there's a certain percentage -- say it's around a fifth of the country -- who tend to say, "If the president says we've got to do it, I trust him."

    Bush said we did, Obama now says we don't.

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    Of course, if the current administration decided to bring the previous administration up on charges, this current snapshot may again change...

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