Comments on: McCain/Graham Are Right on THIS one, Anyway!

By: antisocial

antisocial — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:26:20 +0000

And all these guys were on board. Every decision in a war can’t possibly be held hostage to congress decision. Moreover congress is notorious for leaking details and worse twisting facts. There are details that can cost lives. As details came out this week all prominent leaders were engaged routinely.

Just that Bush and Republicans lost the propaganda war. Probably GWB was more interested in winning the war than winning the perception with the voters. Time will tell.

By: melvinwinter

melvinwinter — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:48:15 +0000

Check out these Onion-style parodies, all of which use some humor to reaffirm McCain’s and Graham’s points:

http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/05/released-guantanamo-bay-detainees.html

http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-announces-recommendations-of-910_25.html

http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-creates-information-hotline-for.html

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:13:32 +0000

I just want them to disappear.

(I won’t say die, that would not be nice)

I hope they just disappear in a puff of smoke, forever.

By: bk

bk — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:40:05 +0000

Not even counting all the stuff Geithner and company have done with the trillions given Obama in a blank check from Congress, Obama is stiffing Congress when it comes to who’s running what. Finding tax cheats to serve in his cabinet creates headaches, so he’s bypassing Congress completely by naming “czars” of this and that and everything in between. And this is with a completely friendly Congress that would rubber-stamp anyone he offered up for any post.

And Bush was the “unitary executive”. Riiiight.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:11:46 +0000

The very fact that an elected President of the United States could even contemplate the imbecilic idea to criminalize or disbar lawyers for simply giving legal advice should give any potential Presidential or even just governmental adviser real reason for pause.

Talk about a “chilling effect.” Who will now take the jobs?

Obama is an enigma if you don’t assign nefarious motives to his actions.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:54:16 +0000

I can certainly understand your point, but Bush failed to even elicit the help of folks on OUR side in Congress! Congress does not like to be ignored, we must realize, and will take it out on any president that does so without having first made himself impenetrable by them. Bush was far from impenetrable.

By: NeoKong

NeoKong — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:43:37 +0000

Why are you way over here in the member diaries column?You’re a headliner here.

I have to disagree with you just a little bit today on this comment.

“Bush took the role of war president one step too far when deciding that handling enemy combatants and creating the processes by which we would prosecute terrorists was a thing only a president should do within his duties as a war leader. By essentially ignoring Congress he opened himself up to the sort of left-wing, partisan attack that the Democrat Party glommed onto as a way to oppose his presidency.”

Time and time again the Democrats in Congress had shown that they were not worthy of the trust to be included in high level decision regarding national security.
Bush was right to be secretive.His responsibility was to the American public first and not to Congress.
The Dem leaders in Congress have used their access to secrets time and time again to undermine the WOT for political gain.
I could fill this page with all sorts of examples.All the classified secrets in the NYT’s,releasing damaging photos,endlessly trying to prosecute Bush officials etc.etc.and etc.
Remember Pelosi’s fabulous trip to Syria?How about the recent revelations that she was in on all the briefings on waterboarding and the way she lied about ever being involved and then dishonestly railing against it.
How many times have Democrats in this country have shown they cannot be trusted to handle our national security?
The moment Obama got in office he began to dismantle the very programs that have kept us safe.
I pray that we can survive their incompetence for four years.