Obama is a really smart guy.
Contrary to Sen. McCain’s repeated assertions, he understands. ( I keep belabouring this point, but just because McCain and Palin say it doesn’t make it so. Hell, even the Republicans don’t know what Sarah Palin is talking about.)
Obama’s not a cowboy, thank Christ. He’s a scholar and a professor of Constitutional Law…remember the Constitution? that precious piece of paper that Bush cleaned his boots on? There’s hope for the rule of law, if Obama makes it to Washington. There’s hope (well I sure hope) that the appalling breaches of the Bush/Cheney years (politicizing the entire DoJ? the utter corruption at the Department of the Interior? the terrifying effort to rush rush rush and install the most conservative people possible at every single level without regard to qualifications, and fire those whose politics don’t fall into line…violent response to peaceful, First Amendment guaranteed protest of an illegal war…the torture, the extraordinary rendition, habeas corpus, illegal wiretapping…) I mean there’s SO MUCH that is SO WRONG, and I think it’s really important to prosecute the offenders, lest anyone think that it’s acceptable behaviour.
It isn’t. No matter what all you cowboys, mavericks, and moose-hunters think, it isn’t.
