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Monday, August 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Would Obama prosecute the Bush administration for torture?

Obama's brain trust wants to form a commission on torture and call Bush officials as witnesses, but put off prosecutions -- if any -- till a second term.

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  • Monday, August 4, 2008 11:04 AM

    Obama won't have the chance to pursue the Bush Administration!

    "But it is true. Obama is basically a typical cowardly Dem and will not raise a finger."

    This statement from a prior post is largely true, in my opinion. Just look at the congress that resulted from the 2006 elections.

    An absolute disgrace, and Obama, re his FISA vote is part of the problem.

    Therefore, I don't think Obama will do much in the way of prosecuting the Bush administration for all their evilness. Also, nobody has any recourse for the misery caused by their ineptness and megalomania.

    All I am hoping for is a cessation of the evilness.

    But I really believe McCain will win, so it's a moot point.

    Since shifting to Steve Schmidt's tactics and to a much more harshly negative motif, McCain has gained ground on Obama in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This according to recent Quinnipiac swing-state polls. He is going to continue to gain and will overtake him.

    Why? Because the McCain campaign is going after the 17.8 million racists that voted for HRC and it will get them. They are doing this using the Rovian "swift-boating" scheme or tactic that was so successful in 2000 and 2004 and now have it down to a science. Regrettably, Obama, as HRC predicted, will become mince-meat.

    This once was a "great country' that is just disintegrating before our eyes. Behold!

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    Yano

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