Obama’s Cheney Dilemma

Absolutely amazing! Putting Barak Hussein Obama into office is the equivelant of letting a 6 year old play in a gun shop... This guy obviously has no clue as to what the job requires as shown by his lack of judgement in choices for his cabinet and associations through out his life, and a wife who openly speaks of her lack of pride for the country for which the Obamagasma media elected as first lady. What I find amazing is that he won't give a dime to help his brother, yet my african american freinds are under the impression he's going to give you the world??? I don't get it, but after watching all that's going on now in his former state (IL) I'm starting to understand what a few extra billion can buy you... when will people (liberals) wake up and realize this guy is nothing more than a smooth, stuttering lawyer out to set up himself and his family financially for the future. I just find it sad that the country many men and women have died to keep safe will be now left in the hands of this ignorant child, and as a result millions more could die. This is truly a sad time for America.

I didn???t vote for Bush/Cheney either times???. I???m a registered Democrat. But Bush/Cheney haven???t committed nearly the unpardonable things that so many have accused them of??? and not nearly as bad as some of the presidents before them??? it???s just that most Americans don???t know their history??? or understand the Difficult Choices that these men have to make in order to protect our country during times when it is fragile and vulnerable.
Vulnerable?... you may ask? Yes, Vulnerable??? If you ever have the courage and the balls to listen to me, I will tell you what it is like to look out your office window one beautiful, sunny morning, after an Explosion Rocks Your Building in NYC, --
*to See The Sky Raining Balls Of Fire*
to see People Burning In The Streets,
to See Them Jumping To Their Deaths,
to See A Towering Inferno,
to Be Trapped In The Stairwell During Evacuation With Hundreds Of People Crushing You,
to Run For Your Life From A Collapsing Tower,
to Run In The Street From Being Trampled By The Hundreds Coming At You,
to Pull A Frightened, Crazed, Crying Man From Being Hit By An Oncoming Ambulance,
to See Fighter Jets Above Your Head Not Knowing If They Are Enemy Or Not,
to Know That You Are A Sitting Duck In The Midst Of Absolute Terror???
TO LOOK AT THE FACES OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON AROUND YOU AND SEE THE UNSPEAKABLE SORROW AND TERROR AND PAIN AND HELPLESSNESS THAT EACH OF US IS FEELING??? AND THAT THIS FEELING AND MEMORY LIVES WITH US UNTIL THE DAY WE DIE OR NO LONGER HAVE MEMORY.
Shall I go on?

Now that America has switched political parties, all that power doesn't look so bad. Newsweek is already making excuses for the man they helped elect.

"Some of them may be dangerous, but impossible to convict of any crime in any ordinary court of law" If a person has not committed a crime what is it that makes them dangerous? The friend they keep? The church they attend? The ideals they hold to be true? A just society cannot imprison a person just because they might someday commit a crime, after all they might someday find a cure for cancer instead.

It's easy enough to respect the Constitution when everything is going smoothly. The true test of our country's most sacred secular document is how it's treated when things are going badly! And the true test of men like Bush and Cheney is what they do at the first sign of trouble. If they take the Constitution and rip it to shreds, because we're at war, did that piece of paper ever really mean anything? To most of us it means everything, and anyone who can't treat it with respect should be investigated, and prosecuted, to the full extent of the law. That includes, first and foremost, Bush and Cheney. And if this nation doesn't confront this issue, the next time you'll be hearing about it will be when the World Court in the Hague indict Bush and Cheney as war criminals. And not a moment too soon!

"Some of them may be dangerous, but impossible to convict of any crime in any ordinary court of law"? If a person has not committed a crime, then how or why would you consider them dangerous? what criteria are you using to define danger. The friends a person keeps? the ideals they hold to be true? their religion? Perhaps just their country of birth. No just society can survive by imprisoning people because they might someday commit a crime. After all they might someday find a cure for cancer instead.

I do not like the way you just throw "the Bush administration's abuses" out there like it is a fact. It is not, if it were so I'm sure there would have been more legal action and strong comments from congree on the matter. The point is mistakes took place, but in the final analysis the job is getting done and we should have hit harder. Good luck Mr. Obama running on feel good politics. Here comes the 3r term of the Clinton's.

So many on the bully pulpit have no clue what this country is about:

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. "
Benjamin Franklin

Now that the opposite party is entering power in the white house, the 'out of control' presidency doesn't seem all that bad. Newsweek is already making exceptions for the man they helped elect.

in a crisis, it is unwise to "take the failed leader to task". the imperative is to adapt, not conduct hearings ad infinitum. it is odd to observe that the more the system has been broken, the less likely that the specific reasons for the cascading decline will be subject to reasoned scrutiny. obama is a practical leader. as the article observes, "it is unlikely that he will overcorrect,,,", but before that, the author states "arguably. there has been an over-reaction to the alleged arrogance of bush and cheney". the word "alleged" requires the historians, and also, more 'oimmediately', the lawyers' attention.

however, the courts are not the place to correct a catastrophe. we must survive, in order to florish in the future.

bush and cheney are soon gone. we must deal with the situation as it occurs, thankfully in their soon absence...

Article quote: "Arguably, there has been an OVERREACTION to the alleged arrogance and heedlessness of Bush and Cheney..."

Gee....ya think?!?!?!

We did not need tougher regulation to prevent additional terror attacks we just needed our government agencies to wake up and pay attention. Remember an low level FBI told higher ups that she suspected something was wrong about a group of Arabs students learning how to fly a plane but not land or take off. We are now the United States of lets be afraid, lets be very afraid. Ben Franklin is turning over in his grave. I voted for Bush and I say good riddance to both. They should both be prosecuted for crimes against the consitution which what they swore to uphold!! They should spend sometime in Guantanamo.