Posted on 04/23/2009 4:42:54 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
Helen Thomas: Why is the president blocking habeas corpus from prisoners at Bagram? I thought he taught constitutional law. And these prisoners have been there...
Robert Gibbs: You're incorrect that he taught on constitutional law.
You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could do was interrupt and correct the doyenne of the White House press corps about Mr. Obama's class as a law professor.
The precipitate cause of Miss Thomas's question was a ruling earlier this month by federal district Judge John Bates. Judge Bates says that last year's Supreme Court ruling on Gitmo does apply to Bagram. The administration has appealed, saying that giving detainees such rights could lead to protracted litigation, disclosure of intelligence secrets and harm to American security.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The good news is that Mr. Obama is smart enough to know that the relative obscurity of Bagram, not to mention the approval he has received on Guantanamo, enables him to do the right thing here without, as Mr. Greenwald notes, worrying too much that he will be called to account for a substantive about-face.Talk about leaping the Grand Canyon to a conclusion.
Obama is a drunken jack-a$$ stumbling first one way, then another... and it's going to get much worse.
The only thing stupider than Obama is a writer claiming that Obama is "smart enough".
testing...testing...1.2.3...is this thing on ?
OBAMA WAS NOT A LAW PROFESSOR !
” Robert Gibbs: You’re incorrect that he taught on constitutional law.”
I’m pretty sure Obama is a Sharia Law scholar.
I believe he held the Ayman al-Zawahiri Chair at the Univ of Chicago.
So Gibbs just called 0bambi a liar! After all, it was 0bambi who himself said he was a Constitutional lawyer.
And this will go how far?
OK, OK. Obama was not a law professor.
But surely you know that Obama is the smartest man EVER to be president.
I know this because I have heard it many times on MSNBC.
Do I really need to say: /sarcasm ???
Please, no pics of the seahag.
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