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• Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:45 AM

  What Constitution?

  About those fingers ...

  I'd say it's checkmate. With respect to Glenn's column, and Bob Fertik's question,

  Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor — ideally Patrick Fitzgerald — to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?

  reasonably, I don't see how a special prosecutor (or "truth comission") could investigate without uncovering Democratic complicity. Pelosi has every reason in the world to advocate looking forward, and keep her hands tightly clenched in her pockets, or folded in her lap.

  Unless Obama is willing to toss the deck into the air and let all 52 cards plus jokers fall where they may, politically, he has every reason to look forward and keep his hands in his pockets, too.

  This quote, captured from Sullivan's site, doesn't suggest much optimism for a genuine truth commission, investigation, or prosecution:

  The African in him is the one who is making him ask, 'What is the consensus?' That’s the African way at its best. The good leader in Africa is the leader who keeps quiet and lets others speak and then says at the end, 'I have heard you all, and this is our mind,' - Desmond Tutu on Obama.

  I'm not confused as to what the consensus of The Village is; they've told us often enough. Whether Obama truly wants to support Change We Can Believe IN™ remains to be seen. I don't much like the odds on that bet, however. For Obama to do otherwise would elevate Profiles in Courage to a whole 'nother level.

  —bystander Read bystander's other letters
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