The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention and blocking the investigation of war crimes. Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department’s chief lawyer, has stated that it is a “policy question” whether acquitted individuals will be released or held indefinitely.
In May, President Obama announced that he supported indefinite detention of individual in violation of both domestic and international law. He has even found his detention policies to be a subject of jokes.
Liberals continue to be largely silent in the face of policies that they once denounced and protested. It is rare to hear any coverage or questions of the Administration’s refusal to investigate war crimes of torture, for example. Liberals seem to be quickly developing a cult of personality that has supplanted the most basic principles of human rights and international law. As with the Republicans under Bush, the Democrats are refusing to push the Administration to investigate torture or comply with international law. Before the inauguration, various generals and senators claimed that Obama and Holder assured them privately that no one would be investigated for torture. It now appears that these stories were likely true. Democrats must choose between their principles and their politicians — and they appear to be making the same choice as their Republican counterparts.
Buddha,
Was it a Tuesday preceding a Friday or a Friday predefining a Tuesday. But then again Happy Hour starts anytime you Need it.
lol
Yeah, except I didn’t get myself into anything with one of them. It was a Tuesday attack.
Way to go Buddha,
Go get yourself in a fight with not one but two idiots. Maybe tomorrow you can have three. I am only kidding.
I don’t think the administration has that “right” to reserve.
No one like a drunk.
And up yours too honey.
Gyges
Patty,
So I have a duty is to support the people I voted for, even when I disagree with their behavior?
I don’t know about you, but I spent a fair amount of time in the last few years criticizing Republicans for that attitude.
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There are plenty of forks to go around!
I disagree with some of what Obama has done so far and I choose to handle that, in part, by restating my ongoing expectations to my elected representatives, personally and being generally involved on a local level.
Patty C you are the one who got Budah goin, you called him out, Hello and now you request that he leave you alone. There is a name for that, antagonizer, Now quit.
Buddha,
Stick a fork in it!
You know very little about me. I trained and worked in Boston for Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals. I am originally from Maine and have resided several places during my lifetime and careers. Big difference.
You, Jill, and Bartlebee et al have had a complete hard on over my so-called ‘elite’ status. My entire family, who knows well our actual Pilgrim and Revolutionary War history, thinks it’s hysterical as do I.
Get over it already!
Nobody appointed you blog Master. You can be intelligent enough and funny sometimes, but mostly, I find you a irritating. You get on my nerves and not just recently!
You married an alcoholic and you are still angry about it, obviously. Why don’t you work on that through Al Anon or AA, whichever is most appropriate for you and leave me out of it?
I’m not the problem in your life.
Barack Obama has dropped 35 points in his first 200 days in office.
Obama’s approval index number reached a new low today.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/white-house-threatens-vet_n_228206.html
Yeah, that’s from the man who promised transparency and reform. Looks like the broken promises list and checklist for fascist totalitarianism just keeps getting longer. But that’s okay, because according to some, Obama can do no wrong. He’s a Dem. He’s black. If you’re from Boston that means he must be The Perfect Baby Jesus. Not the only choice by being the lesser of two evils.
He was hired by We the People and he’ll be fired by We the People. I hope he gets overridden in his bid to secure yet more draconian Presidential power. I hope the Congress shoves this bill right down his throat.
Patty,
So I have a duty is to support the people I voted for, even when I disagree with their behavior?
I don’t know about you, but I spent a fair amount of time in the last few years criticizing Republicans for that attitude.
Bdaman,
I’d have to care about the source to be upset. As I stated, that ended some time ago. I just don’t like mean drunks any more than I like trolls.
I didn’t vote for George Bush.
Buddha did vote for Obama.
Buddha calm down, I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone got fired up. My above post @ 5:30 if this passes addresses this.
Let us be reminded what Gahndi said,
The golden rule of conduct…is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragments and from different angles of vision. Conscience is not the same thing for all. Whilst, therefor, it is a good guide for individual conduct, imposition of that conduct upon all will be an insufferable interference with everybody’s freedom of conscience. Gahndi
Patty,
What did you do to support George W. Bush while he was president?
Was I talking to you?
No. It’s nice you’ve proven that you’re just fine letting Obama do whatever he Hell he wants to though, Ms Hoity Toity. I get it, WE ALL get THAT, but apparently you Boston elitists are hard of understanding so let me spell this out again just one more time in plain language that anyone here can easily understand.
I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think anymore, Patty.
You lost that privilege a long time ago.
About the time you started just being a total bitch to Jill all the time for no reason other than she threatened your status as the Queen Bee around here. Acting just like a mean drunk. Yeah, you’ll say that wasn’t it, that Jill is wonk who has us all deceived, but denial is a wonderful thing from the inside.
The Constitution is more important than you or Obama.
Save your snark for someone who cares.
Gilamosaics: Thank you!
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I don’t doubt Mr. Obama is good at chess, and that he performed legal work with the disadvantaged. I think he got educated down there, and knows how their hell can be helped. I know that. But why take a chance that the 2010 big tent politics is the sole motive? That’s not good chess. The risk that there is lurking a darker motive is not worth taking.
This is a Global Warming-type decision for me. Even at 10:1 odds-against cataclysmic GW happening, I wouldn’t chance it. I won’t bet our children’s future on any game played in any venue.
After Bush and Cheney’s expressed totalitarianism, I trust very few politicians. Look at the behavior of Lieberman, Roberts, Feinstein, and McCain. They morphed into sincere militant corporatist appeasers in an attempt to make the Middle East theater the final statement in protections rackets.
So, I’ll need to see the Bushist indictments before I again vote for Obama. As long as money and power-not the Constitution and the People-are king, there will be unfinished work.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/benedick_bush.html
Buddha,
We get it! You’re gonna open up a big can o’ whoop-ass on Pennsylvania Avenue if the Obama Administration doesn’t straighten up according to your demands and timetable. You’ve said a million times.
Name one thing that you have done to support our new President since he took office?
Blog-bitching doesn’t count.