Honestly, you’ve gotta love the man’s political huevos! He stood right there, right in front of America’s most sacred documents, and lied to the American people.
Now, over the last several weeks, we have seen a return of the politicization of these issues that have characterized the last several years. I understand that these problems arouse passions and concerns. They should. We are confronting some of the most complicated questions that a democracy can face. But I have no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years. I want to solve these problems, and I want to solve them together as Americans.
Gee, so…why’d President Obama hold his speech today, at that hour? Because he knew that Vice President Cheney was going to defend his name, his honor, his legacy, and his innocence, and he wanted to pre-emptively attack those same things. He wanted to divide and distract the nation on a day when awful economic numbers came out (higher unemployment, higher unemployment rate, longer unemployment expected, unemployment expected to rise, new home sales down, existing home sales down, GDP lower than expected, stimulus doing nothing, and….my favorite, number of homeowner families helped by Obama/Dem homeowner rescue package over past 5months:1 per CNN).
Somehow, I’m skeptical of calls for unity that come in a political attack speech. Call me crazy.
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“But I have no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years”
Really? Then why are we re-visiting the water boarding issue at all? I mean I don’t know what re-litigating is if that is not what is being done!
Maybe his definition of re-litigating is different that mine (and others). Just like Clinton’s definition of *is*
AND, I take issue with the statement “…nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people.Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders -”
So they hold some trial. And someone is determined as “safe.” If he is indeed safe, put him back where you got him. I don’t want to see them released here (which I think could happen under this administration)
Why yes, I’m all for working with those *&^%$ Rethuglicans. I’m more than happy to listen to their stupid @#$%&*~ ideas. Then when all is said and done they can #@$% my ^&*@$.
ZERO does swan dive face first, onto the pavement ….
that’s it Hawk talk FEAR FEAR FEAR… it’s the only thing the righties has left!
drive home that FEAR!!!
Fear, fear, fear! There. Feel better RAP?
Zero is always talking unity. He basically did so at Notre Dame, with his Rodney ‘can’t we all get along’ whine. I will say this, he does have a smooth delivery, especially when you are basically double-talking. You get a same feeling of emptiness after a Chinese dinner. But, he does deliver it well – of course, in partnership with the teleprompter.