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To: Brumar89 who wrote (464901)	1/13/2012 8:26:53 AM
From: Brumar89	6 Recommendations Respond to of 793896

... Jodi Kantor’s new book, The Obamas has already made Obama’s 2009 Alice In Wonderland party a headache for an already elitist president. Mandel quotes another incident from the book, during which, as Mandel writes, “the president realizes his campaign promises on Guantanamo and detainee policy were foolhardy now that he has all the information.” Hoping to tamp down criticism (a recurring theme for Obama and his most loyal acolytes from even before he took office), Obama invited several law professors and civil liberties activists to discuss his policies on what, in less enlightened times was called the War on Terror. Mandel quotes this portion of Kantor’s book: But Obama didn’t pull his punches. “When I was a senator running for office, I talked very firmly about what I thought was right based on the information I had,” Vince Warren, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, recalled the president saying. “Now I’m the president of all the people, and the decisions I make have to be from that perspective based on the information I now have.” His face emotionless, he told his guests that he was considering an indefinite detention policy, allowing authorities to hold certain suspects without charges. It was an “Oh my God moment,” one guest said later. As Mandel writes, “the worst moment of the meeting took place at its conclusion:” ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero repeated his plea for Obama to prosecute Bush officials. Romero said: “Hunt one head and hunt it famously and bring it down to ensure we don’t make the same mistakes again.” Obama, to his great credit, told Romero he was alone on that ledge and dismissed the meeting. “Hunt one head and hunt it famously and bring it down” – no matter if he’s innocent or guilty, as long as there’s a show trial first. That sounds ominously like this moment from only a couple of years prior, involving another key group of Obama supporters – who had dubbed themselves Obama’s “Non-Official Campaign” on their listserv, which they called the “Journolist:” I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically. And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes them sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction. The “Who Cares” line is a nice touch, adding this to the randomness of the character destruction. It’s also reminiscent of another famous left-wing screed de coeur from only a few years prior. All of which is just a reminder that for the left, political bloodsport is often just business, nothing personal. ... http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/01/12/paths-of-glory/

To: Brumar89 who wrote (464901)	1/13/2012 9:15:11 AM
From: D. Long	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793896

RonPaul Forums discuss how Audie Murphy was a war criminal Like most of the big L Libertarian Party, these Paul supporters are just leftist hippies that want less government because less government means less cops arresting them for pot possession.