If you couldn't hear it from me, maybe you can hear it from Avedon:
All I know is that so far Obama looks like the very epitome of Village
thinking. Am I wrong? Show me where. Because based on the evidence, the only reason some people have for so fervently believing in Obama's progressivism is the racist assumption that because black Democrats have historically been pretty good on this war and justice stuff, Obama must be, too. Except that Obama and his supporters have been simultaneously telling us all along that he heralds a "new generation" of (post-racial) leadership, divorced from all those embarrassing old dark people with southern accents who got beaten up and risked (and sometimes lost) their lives trying to make the rest of us aware that justice is still a dream.
Ouch!
And don't say you weren't warned.
TROLL PROPHYLACTIC Yes, I'd rather have Obama in office than Bush.
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I didn't expect anything from
Bush, and he managed to be even worse than I thought.
I waited eight years for what? Not liking the landscape so far. Maybe the dems in Obama's administration have learned something from the Bushies besides how to screw the American people and subvert the Constitution.
The icing on the cake will be if Bush pardons himself and gets away with it. We might as well tear down the walls and start over.
they gave him immunity already--
i think--
06-- Elizabeth Holtzman -- Bush Seeks Immunity for Violating War Crimes Act -- http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0923... --
"Thirty-two years ago, President Gerald Ford created a political firestorm by pardoning former President Richard Nixon of all crimes he may have committed in Watergate -- and lost his election as a result. Now, President Bush, to avoid a similar public outcry, is quietly trying to pardon himself of any crimes connected with the torture and mistreatment of U.S. detainees.
The ''pardon'' is buried in Bush's proposed legislation to create a new kind of military tribunal for cases involving top al-Qaida operatives. The ''pardon'' provision has nothing to do with the tribunals. Instead, it guts the War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal law that makes it a crime, in some cases punishable by death, to mistreat detainees in violation of the Geneva Conventions and makes the new, weaker terms of the War Crimes Act retroactive to 9/11.
Press accounts of the provision have described it as providing immunity for CIA interrogators. But its terms cover the president and other top officials because the act applies to any U.S. national.
Avoiding prosecution under the War Crimes Act has been an obsession of this administration since shortly after 9/11. In a January 2002 memorandum to the president, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales pointed out the problem of prosecution for detainee mistreatment under the War Crimes Act. He notes that given the vague language of the statute, no one could predict what future ''prosecutors and independent counsels'' might do if they decided to bring charges under the act. As an author of the 1978 special prosecutor statute, I know that independent counsels (who used to be called ''special prosecutors'' prior to the statute's reauthorization in 1994) aren't for low-level government officials such as CIA interrogators, but for the president and his Cabinet. It is clear that Gonzales was concerned about top administration officials. ..."
No one is above the law.
HAHAHA!
Well, now that Stevens has conceded,
we have 57 (supposed) dems in the Senate, right? And one Lieberman.
Ouch!
Dayuum!
Really, Obama made it very clear from the beginning that he thought that the 60's were a time of liberal "excess", that liberals pushed too hard, essentially that you should wait your place when demanding rights. His conservative and judgemental view of liberalism and the real heroes is what makes his two years as a community organizing a joke. That was a criticism behind it from the beginning, that he wasn't genuine.
It's really too bad, then, that the remaining leaders of the Civil Rights outsourced their criticism is favor of contriving false narratives and creating a false symbol. It's too bad that they wanted a black president so very badly that they put all of their energy into forcing a puzzle piece into somewhere where they knew it wouldn't fit.
I hope they can sustain themselves for the next four to eight years on the pictures of our president-elect in Chicago on stage and his inaugeration, because that is all that they are going to get. That is the price of blind faith.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...