US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes."Worse than Bush". That just cracks me up. Hope and change.
"Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them," the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush due to appear in the New York Review of Books.
The statement, published as a paid advertisement, accuses Obama, who was elected in 2008 with the enthusiastic support of US liberals, of continuing Bush's controversial approach to human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in domestic security.
It takes aim especially at Obama's decision -- reported by US officials -- to authorize the killing of a radical Islamic cleric and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who is accused of ties to Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
"In some respects this is worse than Bush," the statement says. "First, because Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of 'terrorism,' merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly."
Among the signatories are linguist Noam Chomsky, "L.A. Confidential" actor James Cromwell, actor Mark Ruffalo and prominent Bush-era anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan. By midday Thursday there were 1,804 signatures.
They also lambast Obama for having refused "to prosecute any members of the Bush regime who are responsible for war crimes, including some who admitted to waterboarding and other forms of torture, thereby making their actions acceptable for him."
Saturday, May 15, 2010
2,000 Actors and Snobs Accuse Obama of War Crimes
Somehow I missed this last Thursday:
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The warm "dead hand of BUSH!" makes The Won do what he does about Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It's always BUSH!'s fault, so where do these fools get off blaming OBAMA! for what BUSH! is making him do?
The core of liberalism is snobbery. Anyone who understands the Left could see this coming from a mile away. It's always about being "more" trend-du-jour than the riff raff, and about being the uber-hip, not of that group that anybody can be in.
"End the war in Afghanistan" signs have begun to sprout in my neck of the woods, where the lefties are always competing to see who can be hipper-than-thou.
Obama, however, still has his nose stuck higher in the air than ANYBODY. (They're going to have to work really hard to beat that, and there's not enough Bengay on the planet to ease the strain that the Obama Standard poses to the neck and shoulders....)
and there's not enough Bengay on the planet to ease the strain that the Obama Standard poses to the neck and shoulders....)
I envision Ann giving Barack a neck rub and liking it.
I kissed a girl and I liked it
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