Unfit For Command, 2008

Mr. Obama issued a statement calling the decision “a rejection of the Bush administration’s attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantánamo” that he said was “yet another failed policy supported by John McCain.”

“This is an important step,” he said of the ruling, “toward re-establishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law, and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus. Our courts have employed habeas corpus with rigor and fairness for more than two centuries, and we must continue to do so as we defend the freedom that violent extremists seek to destroy.”

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Let us get this straight: a policy that keeps un-uniformed ILLEGAL enemy combatants from appealling to screwball judges like Anthony Kennedy for the exercise of a right ensured to AMERICANS and others apprehended and imprisoned by our LEGAL system, a policy that has prevented these savages from returning to the battlefield to kill AMERICANS is a failed policy?

We shudder to think what Obama would have considered a successful policy.

These are not prisoners in the county pokey awaiting trial for mopery.

They are soldiers in a WAR, a war against Civilization.

Were this child-like lack of understanding not coming from a man who could -- perish the thought -- become Commander in Chief of the Free World it would be funnier than the Doobie Brother's double episode of "What's Happening"!

Except in this case it's "Which Doobie you be?" followed by the explosion of a dynamite cumberbun and dead servicemen.


This reminds us that the nominee's puerile notion of the ideal Supreme Court Justice is equally fatuous, expressed here in blathering Oprah-esque fashion:

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."

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The Boumediene debacle certainly illustrates Justice Kennedy's penchant for empathy -- for Jihadists.