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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama

The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:02 PM

    @Jebbie

    Maybe. But if the Dems are up to their eyeballs on this, they will soon either do what the Convening Authority just did, or be listening to a steady drip drip drip, as one after another all the people who knew and documented, like the military lawyers, come forward to say what they know.

    karr(sic) in the classic Greek tragedy, it's the heroic figure that falls to hubris. It would be a very strange novel if an entire ruling class did so. Sort of a Holocaust of the Vanities.

    Maybe the subtitle is we shouldn't have to wait to find out who will burn in hell 'til the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud?

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