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Now starts the war on the other front - the open pressuring & jockeying from Greenwald & "the left" to foist THEIR agenda on Obama. It's proferred as resistence to republican pressure, but it's based on the same political smoke & mirrors: do the thing we want or we'll brand you a failure.

What you call "foisting an agenda on Obama" is actually called "democracy."

Some people still prefer it to the game of Follow the Leader.

-- GlennGreenwald

Great response, Glenn! lol

Everytime I read one of Glenn's truth to power columns I ask myself - why is such an untalented columnist like David Broder still writing for the Washington Post when they could have someone like Greenwald? No wonder they are losing readers! I hope Salon realizes how lucky they are to have Greenwald.

Thanks for another great column Glenn.

Does anyone know a man named Douglas Kinan? He posted an interesting comment on the WaPo article Glenn referenced in his piece. Here is part of the post:

dougkinan wrote:

My name is Douglas Kinan. I am an Officer of the Court – an Assistant Register at the Massachusetts Trial Court.

As a former DoD employee I conscientiously opposed framing innocent citizen employees and other illegal DoD violations.

Despite overwhelming evidence, the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA/DCMAE) Chief Counsel, Bruce Krasker and his former Deputy Counsel, Jerome C. Brennan insisted on framing innocent employees. Krasker boasted: “We (the Legal Directorate) can do anything we want. It’s called gaming. We can deny, we can delay…dismiss. We can manipulate the system any way we want.”

Krasker can make this boast because he has cover from the Department of Defense Hotline Director, for fraud, waste and abuse, Leonard C. Trahan, Jr. and the Justice Department.

Concerning two (of many) framed employees, Trahan rationalized it this way: “There were two EEO cases in the District in which Mr. Kinan disagreed with the decisions made by [the Equal Employment Manager] and the [DCMDE Chief Counsel.] Instead of accepting those decisions “as reasonable people can disagree”, they became a ‘cause celebre’ for Mr. Kinan.”

For the rest of this post click here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111202679_Comments.html

"that she still wants a law that mandates the Field Manual as the sole interrogation standard, but that she may be willing to be talked back from that position by the Obama Administration, if it chooses to do so."

How pathetic. If you're willing to compromise on torture, what principle, if any, ARE you willing to stand up for?

Looks like VP Cheney likes Obama's appointmenets more than I do.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney is giving President-elect Barack Obama good marks for the people he chose to put into national security jobs.

Cheney, in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC's ''Good Morning America,'' called keeping Bob Gates as defense secretary ''excellent'' and voiced confidence in retired Gen. Jim Jones as the incoming White House national security adviser.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/16/washington/AP-Cheney-Obama.html?_r=1

Last night I read a piece by Susan Estrich where she wrote about why she thinks John Edwards has not been named to Obama's cabinet.

http://wenatcheeworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081208/OP03/712089906/-1/OP

I gave the following response to her piece:

Thank you Ms. Estrich. I agree with you.

The same Washington insiders and wannabees that keep trying to convince the rest of us that the country must forget about holding the Bush administration accountable for torture, all for the sake of comity, evidently believe that Senator Edwards' personal failings in his marriage are much too serious a "crime" to ever forget or forgive. They probably feel like c. moore, who posted above, that Edwards is just too "dangerous" a man. It would all be pretty silly if their perverted thinking weren't so pathetic.

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Today I came to Glenn's blog and laughed out loud when I saw that Glenn wrote about Spitzer's "crime" like I had written about Edwards' crime. Because I have such respect for Glenn I must admit I felt pretty darn good that my comments and his comments were pretty close. For a non-writer it doesn't get much better than this. lol

Thanks Glenn for addressing the Atlantic piece. I read the Douthat piece last night and was so disgusted that I couldn't even post a comment. I'm glad that you addressed it today.

This is off topic but I just watched Johnathan Alter interviewed on CBS morning show. He was being asked about his new FDR book. He told Harry that reading his book is not like homework because it was fun. The reason it was fun? Alter states that he included stories describing when close FDR's aides got drunk. In other words, read my book because you can find the kind of mindless media BS that you are used to seeing everyday on cable. Don't get me wrong I don't have a problem describing if an aide gets drunk but Alter obviously placed this story in the book specifically because he thought it would help him sell books. It's this same mindset that I see on cable day in and day out. They report trivial BS at the expense of substance to boost their ratings. Pitiful.

Thanks for letting me vent.

After reading Glenn's column the first thing that came to my mind was part of a song lyric from a John Stewart song:

"Don't it make you feel like kicking in a white wall".

All of these beltway snobs are nothing more than enablers for this criminal administration. For crying out loud when you've lost the ability to recognize that this administration committed war crimes and MUST be held accountable and then go and tell everyone your vacuous thoughts you might just as well take an ad out in the newspaper telling everyone that you're nothing more than a self-important ninny with no moral compass whatsoever. How pathetic.