Bloodthirsty Liberal

Obama’s revised policy on “coercive interrogation”—and I couldn’t be happier:

[A]ides to Obama now hint that Obama may not agree to using the Army field manual as the outer limit of CIA interrogation techniques:

Although Obama issued a statement during the campaign supporting the idea of applying the Army field manual interrogation standard to all agencies, not just the Pentagon, a senior campaign adviser to Obama left the door open to applying another standard.

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The Wall Street Journal, citing a “current government official familiar with the transition,” reported this week that “Obama may decide he wants to keep the road open in certain cases for the CIA to use techniques not approved by the military, but with much greater oversight.”

Oversight? Is he going to sell tickets? The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarding alone would sell out the Rose Bowl.

The more we learn that “Change you can believe in” really means no change at all, and that we can’t believe anything he says—anything—the more faith I have.

Whew!

It just keeps getting better and better

Now supporters of Obama who have criticized the Bush administration’s position on indefinite detention have begun rethinking that policy as well:

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[A]s Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guantánamo, his pledge to close the detention center is bringing to the fore thorny questions under consideration by his advisers. They include where Guantánamo’s detainees could be held in this country, how many might be sent home and a matter that people with ties to the Obama transition team say is worrying them most: What if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be prosecuted at all?

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“You can’t be a purist and say there’s never any circumstance in which a democratic society can preventively detain someone,” said one civil liberties lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor who has been a critic of the Bush administration.

Like we done tol’ ya and tol ya.

Only yesterday I wrote that just as “only Nixon can got to China”, so only Obama could nuke Tehran. Let me append “only Obama could maintain Gitmo”. As long as he doesn’t lose focus and forget to nuke Tehran, while he’s waterbaording KSM and running Camp X-Ray (and other undisclosed black prisons around the world), and picking of Osama and his surrogates with Predator drones like ducks in a shooting gallery (ask Biden, he says he knows where OBL is) then I’m fine with all of it.

Now that we’ve discovered Barack Obama is the political love-child of Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft, is it too much to hope that he’s also Steve Forbes in blackface? It wouldn’t take much to be more fiscally conservative than John McCain, but if he could find it within himself to reorganize the American economy along capitalist principles, he’ll be my Messiah every bit as much as he is Chris Matthews’.