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Ve Haf Vays of Making You Consent: Authoritarian impulse behind the push to prosecute ex-officials
Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/23/2009 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 04/24/2009 7:45:23 AM PDT by erkyl

Barack Obama's critics have long worried that his placatory attitude would project American weakness, thereby emboldening enemies and making real that impression of weakness. That may happen (or be happening), but what seems to have happened first is that President Obama's own weakness has emboldened his domestic allies on the Angry Left. As a result, the administration seems to be on the verge of a political crisis, and the country is at risk of a constitutional crisis.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; prosecution; torture

1 posted on 04/24/2009 7:45:23 AM PDT by erkyl
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To: erkyl

I’d have said “totalitarian”, not “authoritarian”. What’s “authoritarian”, is that a slur of some kind?

“totalitarian impulse” - now that makes sense


2 posted on 04/24/2009 7:46:54 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: erkyl
If overzealousness under Bush becomes a crime under Obama, underzealousness under Obama will become a crime under the next Republican president.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As if!

3 posted on 04/24/2009 7:49:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (American Revolution II -- overdue)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Maybe he’s planning to be the Last American President, so he’s not really worried about being prosecuted by the next Republican administration...


4 posted on 04/24/2009 8:15:18 AM PDT by Konacoast (Mohamed was a community organizer.)
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To: erkyl

Let’s be clear: while America may have an over-abundance of patience in dealing with fools, there is a line that no man should cross. Obama is standing right up to that line and has a foot in the air.


5 posted on 04/24/2009 8:25:41 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Konacoast

...and we have a winner! You are correct sir!


6 posted on 04/24/2009 8:38:24 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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I wonder what BOA CEO Lewis would pick if he were asked to choose between being waterboarded and being forced to merge Bank of America with Merril Lynch. I would suspect he would pick waterboarding. If so, then it could be said that the Obama Administration treats terrorists better than innocent CEO’s.


7 posted on 04/24/2009 9:21:20 AM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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