[gusopol3]

There is an enormous difference between Obama and Bush. There is no question Bush employed tactics for the purpose of US national security. In whose service does Obama employ greatly expanded usage?

[edcoil]

Leftist, socialist and communists have killed their fellow man for generations. This is no surprise.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Baker also noticed this: “Some liberals acknowledged in recent days that they were willing to accept policies they once would have deplored as long as they were in Mr. Obama’s hands, not Mr. Bush's.” As but one example, the article quoted Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor and fervent Obama supporter, as admitting without any apparent shame that “if this was Bush, I think that we would all be more up in arms” because, she said “we trust the president”.

You all miss the point :
Obama cares for us. This is why it is OK.
Heck, if he waterboarded them it would be OK, because he would do it ‘for the right reasons’ even if we don't what they are because they are written in secret memo's.

Yes, if Bush did this we would call for impeachment, that would be different.

[Red Badger]

It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.............

[The Great RJ]

Even my liberal son-in-law called Obama’s kill list memo an act of tyranny! I pointed out that if George Bush had promulgated such a memo he would have been quickly impeached, but with the Obama double standard nothing will happen.

[I want the USA back]

The complete hypocricy of the democrats is disgusting.

[Scrambler Bob]

On a Sun AM talk show, some dem said - well Bush waterboarded three, and obama killed three with drone strikes. So this is nothing new.

Hmmmm, and how many innocents were killed by waterboarding???

My wife wants a bumper sticker: CHOOSE LIFE - CHOOSE WATERBOARDING.

Then someone said - now that we can reach farther (referring to drone strikes) than before. So we need to rethink the Constitution with respect to our new abilities of war fighting.

Wait!! We have always had Wet Work, at any remote location, any time.

But that had Plausible Deniability. Don’t have that with drones. That is why bo has to make his policy for killing - drone killing is directly traceable to him.

[DPMD]

Oh, they were out of the closet well before this, just by virtue of being democrats.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

If Big Brutha wants you he doesn’t need drones. He has plenty of Chicago thugs to carry out his plan to destroy all opposition.

[Wuli]

Marxists are never concerned about the powers they complained that Bush was taking, as long as those powers are in their hands. To them, as with Obama, there is no internal contradiction in their minds when it comes to complaining about something someone is doing, and then doing that same thing themeselves. It was not the powers Bush was exercising that the Marxists didn’t trust, they didn’t trust Bush with them. Now that their political Messiah is in office, those same powers are fine in his hands.

No contradictions, juts politics.

I heard that justification clearly from a Leftist family friend some years ago. I was listing the many ways that Chavez in Venezuela was accumulating dictatorial powers, and my friend answered point blank, no emotion, no sarcasm, no defensive posture, totally deadpan serious - “well at least he’s a socialist”.

That’s the justification and that’s all the media needs as well. “It’s not a big deal ‘cause he’s one of us.”