Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture
Junior’s `Bush League’ Tactics
By Judi McLeod Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Obama administration may cash in on the visceral hatred of former President George W. Bush to distract those concerned with the daily dismantling of America.
According to NewsWeek, “Obama doesn’t want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.”
Surely not even NewsWeek can be that naive about President Barack Obama not wanting to look back when political gain is part of the equation. But then again it was NewsWeek that brazenly trumpeted last week “Why Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the pope does.”
Like all good Dems, Obama blames Bush for everything.
The romantic version of why Holder may press ahead to probe Bush-era torture: ...”It’s the morning after Independence Day, and Eric Holder Jr. is feeling the weight of history. The night before, he’d stood on the roof of the White House alongside the president of the United States, leaning over a railing to watch fireworks burst over the Mall, the monuments to Lincoln and Washington aglow at either end. “I was so struck by the fact that for the first time in history an African-American was presiding over the celebration of what our nation is all about,” he says. Now sitting at his kitchen table in jeans and a gray polo shirt, as his 11-year-old son, Buddy, dashes in and out of the room, Holder is reflecting on his own role. He doesn’t dwell on the fact that he’s the country’s first black attorney general. He is focused instead on the tension that the best of his predecessors have confronted:how does one faithfully serve both the law and the president?”
The president’s participation in Independence Day celebrations was short-lived as the day after watching fireworks on the White House Roof, he was off to Russia, in what some saw as flipping the bird at the July 4th weekend.
In NewsWeek diatribe, attorneys general are unique among cabinet officers; “partisan appointees expected to rise above partisanship”.
A hard concept to swallow about AG Eric Holder who admits, “But the reality of being A.G. is that I’m also part of the president’s team. I want the president to succeed: I campaigned for him. I share his world view and values.”
In the words of the increasingly repressed Peanut Gallery: No kidding, Mr. Holder!
Back to the fairytale spin of Newsweek: “These are not just the philosophical musings of a new attorney general. Holder, 58, may be on the verge of asserting his independence in a profound way. Four knowledgeable sources tell NewsWeek that he is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration’ brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do.”
Notice how it’s the “Bush administration’s “brutal” interrogation practices, before the investigation even gets underway?
Holder, who campaigned for Obama is still campaigning for him. The only difference being that now he can now deflect the daily dismantling of America by capitalizing on the hatred for George W. Bush.
George Bush’s War in Iraq has now become Obama’s War in Afghanistan.
Shameful that NewsWeek’s announcement of Holder’s probe of Bush-era torture would coincide with the reportage on the death of Fort Drum, N.Y.’s 22-year-old Spc. Joshua R. Farris, killed in Afghanistan, Thursday when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Afghanistan.
Reviving the hatred of George W. Bush will not stop patriots from worrying about the steady dismantling of America by Barack Hussein Obama.
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.
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