Friday, May 15, 2009

Worse than Obama's adoption of Bush policies

Glennzilla pegs perhaps a potentially more enduring and insidious byproduct of Obama's decisions to proceed with military tribunals and conceal evidence of prisoner abuse:
Under Bush, half the country was trained to recite all sorts of dangerous propositions about how important it is to vest The President with all sorts of powers to keep us safe, how vital it is that he keep things secret to protect us from the Terrorists, how we can trust in our leaders to exercise in ways we don't understand because we know he's good at heart.

And now, with Obama, a significant portion of the other half of the country is being trained to recite the same things.

Any Obama supporters who feel the urge to back these reversals because Obama's "their guy" had better think long and hard about what that means.

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