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So you see, he’s still good for something.
Senator Kennedy manages to get things 180 degrees bass-ackward with surgical-precision accuracy once again. Had his talent been appreciated earlier, Mary Jo might still be alive today.
“President Bush’s veto will be one of the most shameful acts of his presidency,” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement Friday. “Unless Congress overrides the veto, it will go down in history as a flagrant insult to the rule of law and a serious stain on the good name of America in the eyes of the world.”
Yes by all means Ted, let’s just feed the terrorists three hot meals a day and let ’em have their naps like little kids in Kindergarten. Let’s just wait for them to tell us something out of the goodness of their hearts.
Most shameful act of his presidency…what a laugh. From what I can remember, President Bush’s approval ratings dropped like a rock after he started making nice-nice with you, you pompous blowhard.
The pattern remains unbroken: Whenever a hardcore leftist talks about the “rule of law” they’re always talking about something that hurts the country. “Rule of law” is never used to describe something that really is a rule of law…like, say, building a fence to force people to go through proper channels when they want to come here. That would have something to do with a “rule of law.”
Oh, and uh…what’s up with this “eyes of the world” stuff, huh? What’s a United States senator care about that? Does he represent the people of Massachusetts in our federal government, or does he represent a bunch of foreigners? Because, you know, if I’m not mistaken I think he took an oath that addresses that question directly.
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I was thinking about this over the weekend.
When Bush draws the line on this waterboarding bit, he is simply being honest. We’ve done it, what, twice now, in very extreme cases?
We’ve got prisoners of war here. The Geneova conventions might apply if Al Queda were a signatory to them. Clearly, by their actions, living up to them even without being a signatory is the furthest thing from their minds. By and large as prisoners of war go, we’ve been very, very good to them, probably right down the line with the Geneova conventions.
But every now and then, we’re going to need something from some POW’s. And if we’re pretty sure they have what we need, we’re going to try to get it out of them one way … or another. President H. Clinton would. President McCain would, despite what he has said. I would hope President Obama would. The only difference is Bush is saying this in public — “nope, we won’t rule it out.” We won’t do it as a matter of course, but in the end when lives are at stake we will do what it takes.
And I think that’s what most people want. If Bush weren’t president and we didn’t have this sigificant portion of the population that has an explosive, knee-jerk emotional reaction at the mention of his name, even more people would sign on. But right now it’s a tool to bludgeon Bush with, so they’re again’ it in public.
- philmon | 03/10/2008 @ 10:40Well said, Phil.
Hey, what if the democrat party had captured me and I knew something scandalous about Jenna Bush that I didn’t want anybody else to find out? I wonder how far they’d go.
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- Webloggin - Blog Archive » Bush to Veto Waterboarding Bill | 03/10/2008 @ 11:14They’d make you watch Gore and Moore movies until you cracked! 😉
- philmon | 03/10/2008 @ 12:38An hour into it I’d beg Ted Kennedy to give me a ride home.
- mkfreeberg | 03/10/2008 @ 12:40Me too. Especially if I was armed and we were taking the long road out by the beach at night and the tide was going out.
- vanderleun | 03/10/2008 @ 14:46