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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:47 AM

    this is not my beautiful country

    Blithely assuming for the moment Obama will pursue an agenda the neo-cons do not approve of it will be very interesting to see if the Busheviks and their enablers in the Democratic Party and the press will still push presidential immunity and "we were just following orders" once Obama is in office. Given the jihad against Slick Willie for far less, I doubt it. The dogs will bark the moment Obama pisses them off. But what's worse is the fact that, given his appointments, his support of FISA, and his silence regarding the Bush junta's illegal activities he will most likely be just another Good Democrat.

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