Comments on: Obama Announces New! Improved! Military Commissions

By: windy

windy — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:20:36 +0000

“They are appropriate for trying enemies who violate the laws of war”

Enemies… foreign and domestic?

By: eskyesq

eskyesq — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:34:46 +0000

His first instinct self-interest and he’s not even good at knowing what that is.

By: eskyesq

eskyesq — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:31:13 +0000

Right again and well put.

By: eskyesq

eskyesq — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:27:42 +0000

Exactl! His campaign debates revealed his opposition to universal health care, eagerness to bomb Pakistan, support for nuclear power as an alternative energy source. He appeared totally cowed by Hilary and turned snotty when a nerve was touched. While Hillary was not my first choice she would not be a tool (in every sense) of the worst corporate and Beltway fixers. Obama was a gift Senator (see Alan Keyes, his straw man opponent). He kept his mouth shut and vooted the worst Bush proposals including the bankruptcy exception for credit card comapanies, illegal wiretapping, scrapping FISA. More mportantly he never returned to D.C. to vote on SCHIP override of veto. Nothing is more important than Nobama.

By: eskyesq

eskyesq — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:15:42 +0000

The whole thing should drag on. For almost a year before the election I produced screeds about Nobama (my coinage) the empty suit, trojan horse. He has no priciples, no loyaly to anyone but his Wall Street buds and Chicage hack acolytes. His judicial philosophy is an oxymoron. This (not a racial reference) will sell every promise he makes because he is committed to nothing, not least of which is the Cobstitution. He was a guaranteed me too in the Senate on Iraq, a back bencher who went along to get along. His advisors are arrogant pols and lobbyists for the super rich. This guy just Bush with a better rap. When the bottom falls out we will lose our only chance to recover our souls.

By: CDLopez

CDLopez — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:57:01 +0000

Bush and Cheney must have figured out that after they raped the world this legal mess would stop
the Democrats from changing our laws and rights back where they belong.
All of this Torture in our Justice system will take years to come justice if it ever will.
We have based our Justice System on the Rat system for years.
People that break into your home get the same punishment as someone with 2 oz of weed.
Our prisons are full of people that are just addicts.
Bush started a war that could have started a world war and might just do that now.
Obama has done a good job with a situation like this.
It is going to take years to get us above a 3rd world status in the eyes of the world. The world has
a good reason not to trust this country. We have more than enough arms to end the world and we are the only
country that has used nukes. Just look at the countries that we have armed.
Bush was talking about Iran next and we wonder why they are trying to arm themselves with nukes.
If you want to make friends you invite them to dinner and help them when you can. Obama and Clinton have enough brains to understand this. It is hard to believe that we have had leaders that feel calling people evil is a good tactic.
The fact that we have lost thousands of young men and women because of this attitude is sad.
I am 67 years old and I have always told my GrandChildren to think before you get behind a cause that you have no control of. The cause has to be greater than ones self. Oil and Money do not fall into that.

By: worldwidehappiness

worldwidehappiness — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:46:48 +0000

That moaning with pleasure you hear is the sound of Bush enjoying his Obama foot massage.

By: Spokane61

Spokane61 — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:31:58 +0000

Obama = Bush = criminal

We were had! This administration is so busy with immunizing the criminals that they have become the criminals.

By: zapkitty

zapkitty — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:20:46 +0000

And what of the innocents who were swept up in Bush’s bounty hunts? Do we just deny them their rights and condemn them to indefinite detention via secret trials because Cheney et al have tortured then so much they might turn into actual terrorists?

As for any actual terrorists… the Bush regime blew any chance of ever gaining legitimate convictions when they tortured their prisoners.

And furthermore through their clumsy attempts at “quick-rinse” interrogations… the supposedly coercion-free after-torture sessions designed to wash away the stain of torture from the coerced testimony… Bush and company have also blown any chance of ever gaining convictions on those charges.

At least in a court of law.

And secret trials before military commissions cannot be regarded as a court of law.

We made our bed when our President, Obama, refused to hold Bush et al accountable for their crimes… and now we must sleep in it.

By: DrZen

DrZen — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:04:24 +0000

All you need to know about Obama is he’s not going to the mat for Dawn Johnsen but says he will for Arlen Specter.