President Obama speaks about America's national security while at the National Archives in Washington, May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Larry DowningFrom IBDeditorials.com:
"We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning." — Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of alleged terrorists, New York Times, May 21
If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.
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My Comment: Charles Krauthammer is becoming the most effective critic of President Obama. He does not disappoint in this editorial.
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