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New-Politico.Org on Friday, April 24, 2009 2:15:40 PM
Now the Obama Administration is going after George Bush’s counsels. This is, indeed, a great precedent to set. Every successive administration can investigate and try the previous one to appease supporters and frighten Presidential advisors into not speaking their minds when advising the Chief Executive.
Obama himself has waffled several times on this. At first he seemed to be taking the high road and rejecting any possibility of investigating the former President’s attorneys. Then George Soros and his left wing supporters got to him. The following day it suddenly became something that the Attorney General had to decide. Perhaps this is a good example of the complete lack of experienced leadership referred to several times during the campaign of last year, especially by the Presidents Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton.
If this goes through and I seriously doubt it will (how will he justify looking ahead and being bipartisan if he does go after Bush advisors) then we have to dig up Harry Truman and try him for wiping out several thousand Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We should also dig up FDR and try him for killing millions of Germans during the merciless bombing of industrial German in the Rohr Valley in 1944/45. How about Abraham Lincoln, whom Obama attempts to identify with all the time? Mr. Lincoln locked up the Governor of Maryland because of opposition to the emancipation proclamation and suspended Habeas Corpus for several confederate States during the Civil War. What about FDR, the Democrats previous messiah? Remember the Japanese internment camps? Shall we exhume Johnson and Kennedy and try them for Vietnam and Laos? Think Operation Rolling Thunder (if you’re a lefty…Google it).
The list will never end. Many Presidents have had to make concessions for national security or to win a war. But we aren’t at war. Remember? It is an Overseas Contingency Action! Who wins an Overseas Contingency Action? The Bush administration, in the awful days following the worst attack on American soil by her enemies did what they felt they had to do. They kept us safe while Japan, Italy, Spain and Great Britain all suffered attacks which killed their citizens. But Bush haters, who were the people who got Obama into the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue, simply wouldn’t be able to accept that. As far as they’re concerned, Bush, Cheney and Rove never ever did anything right.
My question is simply this. When will President Obama show a little leadership and stand up to George Soros, the zealots in the Daily Kos and Media Matters and Move –On.Org and do what he knows is the right thing.