From the beginning, Barack Obama has mesmerized the multitudes with his chant, YES WE CAN!
His worshipful millions dutifully provide the chorus--
YES WE CAN!
Therefore, can we say that Obama supports the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling which grants Gitmo terrorist detainees the same Constitutional rights as American citizens?
YES WE CAN!
This is what he said in consent: "This is an important step toward re-establishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law."
(Since when are foreign combatants part of our nation?)
Can we say that if elected, Obama would seat more extreme leftist justices like Anthony Kennedy who provided the swing vote in favor of the terrorists?
YES WE CAN!
With a background so murky, can we say that if elected, we don't know what Obama will do, or which side he's on?
YES WE CAN!
(For the record, this voter is not nuts about McCain, either, and I was first with the headline, months ago, "Three Stooges for President.")
Can we say that the Supreme Court of the United States, at least five of them, offered aid and comfort to our enemies?
YES WE CAN!
After he reversed himself on "united Jerusalem," can we say that Obama is Israel's friend on Monday but Israel's enemy on Tuesday?
YES WE CAN!
Can we assume that the court's decision was taken as a nod of approval by terrorists all around the world; that there was jubilation in the caves of Hezbollah?
YES WE CAN!
After Wednesday's landmark decision was made public, can we surmise that they were laughing at us in Riyadh and that Hamas was handing out candy in Gaza?
YES WE CAN!
Can we recognize that sticker shock at the pump is an economic act of terror on the part of those "oil producing nations" and that this too we take lying down?
YES WE CAN!
Can we say that Obama's word is not to be trusted, that he'll say whatever suits him at the moment?
YES WE CAN!
Can we say that somewhere in Iran or Syria or Pakistan or Afghanistan, or maybe driving a cab in New York, Osama bin Laden is rejoicing?
YES WE CAN!
Can we say the meter is running on our survival as a free people?
YES WE CAN!
Can we say that America's supreme court and Israel's supreme court are dunce-cap twins, that they often favor the other side, blithely unaware that we're at war?
YES WE CAN!
Can we agree with Justice Antonin Scalia when in his dissent he wrote: "America is at war with radical Islamists?"
YES WE CAN!
Can we further agree with Scalia when in his dissent he wrote that "today's opinion will make it harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
YES WE CAN!
Can we agree that more Israelis were killed by similar rulings issued by Israel's supreme court?
YES WE CAN!
Can we see that such judicial tyranny, as exists in America and in Israel, puts us all in the same boat - the Titanic?
YES WE CAN!
Can we again agree with Scalia when he wrote: "The nation will regret what the court did today?"
YES WE CAN!
Can we say that with Justice Kennedy on the high court and Obama in the White House we have found the enemy and the enemy is us?
YES WE CAN!
[Let the hate mail begin]
The Bathsheba Deadline: An Original Novel Jack Engelhard's latest novel, THE BATHSHEBA DEADLINE, now available in paperback, places journalism at the center of our war on terror. Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel INDECENT PROPOSAL that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. He can be reached at viewopinion@aol.com.
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Comments: 24
Those "terrorist" have been in jail for six years WITHOUT A TRIAL. Without the right to examine evidence against them. Without the right to freely consult with legal counsel in private. If any other country in the world locked people up for 6 years with no trial under those conditions, the U.S. would be the first to accuse them of human rights violations.
Nobody is talking about letting terrorists go free. We're talking about why are people sitting in prison for 6 years without having been convicted of a crime?
These American officials are thugs. Guantánamo is perfect for them. It is neither Cuba nor the United States, a jurisdictionless no-man's-land where the rule of law can be ignored and the precepts of civilized behavior violated on a daily basis. Who knows what they are doing to these people in the name of the war on terror?
Yes We Can be civilized.
Yes We Can be a country a law.
Yes We Can not let terror transform us into terrorists!
which chose to ignore warnings of a significant terrorist attack on this country's soil, allowed that terrorist attack to HAPPEN, then chose to allow Osama bin Laden to run free ever since to serve as a HERO to rally additional terrorists to his cause, providing additional warning tapes of another attack which will make the first seem small in comparison, started an illegal war in Iraq which rallied even more terrorists to the cause against America, and is now giving Nuclear material to Saudi Arabia, which is the biggest sponsor of terroroism in the world. Now you would have me believe that Republicans will keep me safe? Bullshit!
When you look at your conservative persident and his supporters and followers do blame the disgusting condition this country is now in on liberals? Do you blame the historic debt or the dangerously low value of the dollar on liberals as well? So sorry my fella Americans liberals did not put this country in this sad state of affairs. BUt you are free to believe it if it makes you feel better.
Good point Spencer.
Hey Thanks for George Bush. He makes Jimmy Carter look like Wilson. The lamest president in the history of this country. The lamest president of the civilized world.
which [sic] chose to ignore warnings of a significant terrorist attack on this country's soil, allowed that terrorist attack to HAPPEN, then chose to allow Osama bin Laden to run free."
Jerry didn't hear about the terrorist attack PREVIOUS to 9/11, when Clinton was President? Jerry didn't hear about how Clinton knew exactly where bin Laden was and CHOSE TO DO NOTHING?
You mean treating all you citizens equally?
You mean not letting poor people and babies die because of no health insurance???
You mean not starting unnecessary wars??
European values sound pretty good to me.
OBAMA
My point, Elizabeth. When other countries engage in this behavior, the U.S. is the FIRST IN LINE to want to impose sanctions. But if our president does it, it must be OK.
You people honestly still trust Bush to tell the truth, after it's already been proven the Iraq invasion was based on not only erroneous, but fabricated information. When it's already been proven that the Bush administration manipulated the data to support their point. When our president and his people have refused to acknowledge that were are accountable to the Geneva Convention. When our government condones acts of torture (acts even MCCAIN has decried). When our government makes prisoners strip down naked for "group photos."
You people are terrified of what Obama MIGHT DO based off of internet rumors. You should be afraid of what the Republicans have ALREADY DONE.
YES WE CAN!
Absolutely! Finally, there's light at the end of the tunnel. It's so nice.
There's lotsa building materials here.
And what facts are these based on? The fact that he wants speculators to have to put up more collateral to prevent them from driving the price of a barrel of oil over $150? The fact that he wants to stop financing Big Oil and put money into alternative energy sources like solar and wind? The fact that he wants to give working class people a tax break instead of corporations? The fact that he thinks people have a right to a trial and not just to be locked up for six years without one?