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• Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:51 AM

  -- Shooter McGavin

  Looking at Obama’s comments on Sunday, I think they were fairly innocuous; you could read them anywhere on the spectrum from being infelicitous to indicative of some desire to use evidence gathered through torture as the basis for criminal prosecutions. Given that the man had not taken office, not held the reins of the executive for so much a second, I am willing to reserve criticism until I have some empirical evidence to support a failure, either of policy or moral character. If he after a month or two in office, he fails to close Gitmo, or makes a move towards the establishment of some court with evidentiary rules that diverge from our legal traditions or moral principle, you and I can link arms and scream bloody murder together. Until then, I elect to “keep my powder dry” (trite platitude inserted for your enjoyment).

  -- Shooter McGavin

  Why would you wait for a "failure" before you attempted to do it right in the first place? Would you start steering your car to the right after you hit the pole on the left or would you steer right in time to avoid the pole?

  If you wait, you'll not only hit the pole, you'll probably end up with damage to the car which could have been avoided had you started turning before you whacked the pole.

  Now isn't the time to let up. Now's the time to apply more pressure so the Obama car doesn't hit the pole.

  —Jebbie Read Jebbie's other letters
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