Lies? Eastwood's are almost irrelevant, while a sitting president's are consequential, especially when mated with hypocrisy.
I will not win many friends with this, especially among hardened, true-believers, and the blindered intolerants who now refuse to gaze outside their once wide-open minds, having abandoned thoughtfulness and introspection, and embraced the confining, anti-intellectual, partisan jail-cell called "progress"
Professor Turley's take on President Obama is a must read:
"John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On the Constitution" - John Cusack; 9/1/2012
...That's a different argument (one which, IMO, evidences President Obama's lack of leadership with both Democrats and Republicans); incidentally, was it a surprise to you that Republicans opposed closing GITMO?
My only point, however, was that you were mistaken when you laid blame on a "Republican Congress" as it was in fact a Democrat Congress.
You're certainly a good sport for posting my response!
Let's just start with your first point re: President Obama being "prevented from closing Guantanamo by the Republican Congress..."
At the time, neither the Senate nor the House were "Republican"; in fact in 2009-2010 (when Congress voted against closing GITMO) the Congress was controlled by Democrats (both houses). In May, 2009, the Democrat-controlled Senate voted 90-6 against appropriating funds to close GITMO (along with 50 of 57 Democrat senators). In December, 2010, the Democrat-controlled House also voted against appropriating funds to close GITMO!
That empty chair seems to be large enough to hold an uninformed commentator, as well as a weak president!
Lies? Eastwood's are almost irrelevant, while a sitting president's are consequential, especially when mated with hypocrisy.
I will not win many friends with this, especially among hardened, true-believers, and the blindered intolerants who now refuse to gaze outside their once wide-open minds, having abandoned thoughtfulness and introspection, and embraced the confining, anti-intellectual, partisan jail-cell called "progress"
Professor Turley's take on President Obama is a must read:
"John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On the Constitution" - John Cusack; 9/1/2012
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11264-john-cusack-and-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution
...That's a different argument (one which, IMO, evidences President Obama's lack of leadership with both Democrats and Republicans); incidentally, was it a surprise to you that Republicans opposed closing GITMO?
My only point, however, was that you were mistaken when you laid blame on a "Republican Congress" as it was in fact a Democrat Congress.
You're certainly a good sport for posting my response!
You are badly ill-informed, Mr. Cole!
Let's just start with your first point re: President Obama being "prevented from closing Guantanamo by the Republican Congress..."
At the time, neither the Senate nor the House were "Republican"; in fact in 2009-2010 (when Congress voted against closing GITMO) the Congress was controlled by Democrats (both houses). In May, 2009, the Democrat-controlled Senate voted 90-6 against appropriating funds to close GITMO (along with 50 of 57 Democrat senators). In December, 2010, the Democrat-controlled House also voted against appropriating funds to close GITMO!
That empty chair seems to be large enough to hold an uninformed commentator, as well as a weak president!