Shocker! While Obama Continues Bush’s Policies The Left Don’t Protest
On the same topic of Obama’s backsliding towards Bush Glenn Greenwald has a poignant and amusing column that might have been titled, “Hey, Where’d Everybody Go?” Apparently Greenwald has been serious about his civil liberties tirades over the last few years and is shocked to find that for most of his fellow progressives the civil liberties shtick was only useful insofar as it could be used to bash Bush. Yeah, no one saw that coming. Andrew Sullivan was similarly shocked to find that the gay community will be asked to remain seated at the back of the bus despite having committed themselves to a President “who really seemed to get it“.
Let me get ahead of the curve and reveal today a major Obama flip-flop yet to come. Back in his first glorious days in office when Obama magically closed Gitmo and ended Bush’s deplorable military commissons Obama also ended torture, making the Army Field Manual the rulebook for both military and CIA interrogations.