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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (75949)	5/25/2010 11:44:21 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"All Scott was doing was telling the truth" No; he tells opinions.

To: koan who wrote (75949)	5/25/2010 2:51:10 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

All Scott was doing was telling the truth. I defend him because he seems to have more fidelity to the truth than some others jumping on him. Yup, I have found in my experience that these guys who are attacking Scott are extremely frightened of facts. But that's not really that big of a criticism, that can be said of most of the people on SI. Once again it turns out that Obama is a bigger azzhole than Bush: <<< ... Hence, we have a series of aggressive prosecutions from the Obama administration of Bush era exposures of abuse and illegality -- acts that flagrantly violate Obama's Look Forward, Not Backward decree used to protect high-level Bush administration criminals. As John Cole has suggested, perhaps if these whistleblowers had tortured some people and illegally eavesdropped on others, they would receive the immunity that Obama has so magnanimously and selectively granted. Instead, they merely exposed secret government corruption and illegality to the world, and thus must be punished. While it's true that leaks can be both damaging and illegal, these prosecutions are occurring without any showing whatsoever of harm to national security, and with ample evidence that they were undertaken to expose high-level wrongdoing ... >>> salon.com