For the first time I am getting quite worried about OB. The main problem of going "to the center" is that it means leaving the group that has been the moral voice of this country since the Bush administration, the left. Its not that we have taken sides for no reason. War, prisons, rendition, spying, torture, and so on. The issues reflect the basic moral core. There should NEVER be imprisonment without a trial and there should NEVER be a trial with tainted evidence. Thats a concentration camp. The Iraq war veterans will tell you that even the US government refers to the camps as concentration camps. Not only is this WRONG but it is the ONE OF THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF TERRORISM AGAINST THE WEST. That tells me that its nothing but lack of nerve on the part of OB. He must know its wrong. Thats not good and he is actually endangering us by his pathetic attitude.

Also, many of them have died under our supervision. Obama owns this now.

You have got to be kidding. And the transition team knew this? Does Barry want his presidency to appear to be a joke? You can't make this stuff up. Get rid of Geithner but fast. And shame on the transition team.

"The recent disclosure of the fact that the CIA briefed a bi-partisan group of Senators and Representatives on the Congressional Intelligence Committees about methods of torture used by the CIA, including "water boarding", is evidence that there is complicity in these crimes by members of Congress.

…Importantly, Article One of the Convention's definition of torture includes not only acts committed by Public Officials but also the acts to which they acquiesced.

"…prior to the activity constituting torture, have awareness of such activity and thereafter breach his or her legal responsibility to intervene to prevent such activity..."

…The members of Congress who were advised by the CIA that torturing prisoners, including water boarding, was being used included Rockefeller, from the family that is reaping an added fortune in billions of dollars from their oil, gas, and finance international conglomerates during the invasion and occupation of Iraq; Pelosi that voted for and continues to vote to fund the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Palestine beyond the internationally recognized 1948 and 1967 border between Palestine and Israel.

…The Senators who were advised of the CIA's use of torture became complicit in the act of torture upon their failure to intervene in the continuing practice and, even worse, in their encouragement of the CIA’s use of torture.

…Suddenly we find out now that the CIA has destroyed the tapes of its torture sessions --- the torture methods that the Senators were briefed about and where they failed to intervene ---the visual and sound version recordings of torture, possibly including water boarding, that would make Mukasey’s inability to classify water boarding as illegal, criminal torture the mockery that it really is.

In short, the CIA destroyed the tapes---the best evidence of the illegal use of torture--- in defiance of an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in October of 2003 and May of 2004 requiring the CIA to preserve "all records pertaining to the treatment of detainees in its custody." http://www.aclu.org

Obviously, the secret affairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s illegal, criminal acquiescence to and failure to intervene in the use of torture was about to see the light of day so the CIA destroyed the best evidence of the Senators’ and the Representatives’ complicity."

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blo..._use_of_torture

Have a Nice Day, Barry

It was really pathetic to watch the Obamas reading childrens books when he needs to be on the job.

The stimulus shouldn't pass as is because its a bunch of pork.

The appointees are pretty much crooks and lobbyists.

If you back down on buy american and american workers first then there goes the ballgame. He shouldn't have backed down, he should have changed it to give additional BENEFITS to Buy America.

I had no idea Obama would be such a disapointment. He's completely lost and his people are out of control completely and in it for themselves and the (wrecked) party.

And if he doesn't appoint Howard Dean for HHS, then you know his intentions are off track. Howard Dean HAS SAVED THE PARTY in the past and HAS ALREADY DONE HEALTHCARE THAT WORKS IN HIS STATE, UNLIKE THE CHARLIE CRIST AND MITT ROMNEY DISASTERS.

I think Nancy Pelosi is really insane. He needs to get the STINK off from the crooked Dems or he is one.

Better yet, tell Howard Dean to stay away from Obama and the mess he is creating. Then we have some people left to rise from the new ashes.

This is nuts.

How would he like women to discuss his sexual prowess or ability to perform with a slutty-type? That would not be a very positive conversation. After all, you're trying to tell us what? You wouldn't entertain that thought of sex with Sarah? You would turn down a woman looking "slutty" as you call it? Unless he is abnormal in some way, in a heartbeat if he could. So now he's down to criticizing attractive women that differ in his preferred "style"?

I wish all these guys would lay off Palin, and Brittany for that matter, and any woman that they wish to attack in a sexual manner. Olbermann also seems fascinated with this, as does O'Reilly. What gives? If they only knew HOW RIDICULOUS AN OLD MAN SOUNDS CRITICIZING AN ATTRACTIVE YOUNGER WOMEN FOR LOOKING SEXY. My girlfriends would say they are all just angry old men. You see them a lot on the highways, cutting and pushing over young women on the roads, mad looks on.