Hopeandchange is beginning to look kinda familiar on the topic of detaining enemy combatants. Andrew Malcolm for one is not in the least amused.
In yet another sign of political perfidy, the White House of President George W. Bush has drafted a presidential executive order that would allow that double-dealing Republican chief executive to hold suspected terrorist detainees indefinitely.
According to the president’s intentions, such suspects could be detained for long periods of time, virtually indefinitely. Is this really what the nation voted for last November?
Oh, wait. No. According to an exclusive Washington Post/Pro Publica report this afternoon, it’s the refreshing new Democratic administration of Barack Obama that’s now preparing this new executive order to hold certain terrorist suspects indefinitely.
This is an obviously inspiring sign of the new style of leadership the Democrat promised and is finally bringing to the White House. As one blogger put it, George W. Obama. And it shows the kind of powerful political pragmatism with which the ex-senator from Illinois approaches this job at such a crucial and globally turbulent time. Strangely, it was leaked to the Post on a slow summer Friday afternoon when it wouldn’t gain much attention.
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In other words, fanfare aside, status quo ante. Democrat or Republican, same deal. Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney will be so pleased that the Obama-Biden folks finally accepted his advice to protect national security.
So can W and Cheney get an apology from the Left, starting with Obama, now? Seeing as The One has adopted their policy and all.
And by the way, apparently Malcolm hasn’t been paying attention…releasing unflattering items like this on a Friday afternoon has been Obama’s MO for the past six months.
