Ya Think?

According to the Times, "The provision illustrates that the president's order to shutter foreign-based prisons, known as black sites, is not airtight and that the Central Intelligence Agency still has options if it wants to hold terrorist suspects for several days at a time."
More change we can believe in?

The Times notes: "The exception is evidence that the new administration, while announcing an end to many elements of the Bush 'war on terror,' is leaving itself wiggle room to continue some of its predecessor's practices regarding terrorist suspects."

Imagine that. There must be some dangerous people out there after all.

Quoted from Gather News

Torture? Hmmm...

What constitutes torture? Are you for it or against it?

Let's think this way:
Suppose your child, spouse or loved one has been taken hostage. The hostage taker will have them killed. You capture the hostage taker but they refuse to talk.

To what lengths would you go to get your child (or loved one) back? At what point would you say "that's torture, let my child (or loved one) die?"

What if it were you who was taken hostage?

Now, let's take that child, loved one or yourself and make it America (of which you and your loved ones are a part by the way.) How do you feel now? I cannot answer that. It is up to you.

There are fine lines no doubt. But we should think before we damn something.

Change? Less than you might think

As some of us who do not wear blinders are becoming aware, Obama is not "changing", the way he said he would.

In particular, the ways of keeping our nation safe. As is quoted,
"Obama will be loath to throw away the tools that have kept the homeland safe. Just as he will be loath to jeopardize the remarkable turnaround in American fortunes in Iraq. Obama opposed the war. But the war is all but over. What remains is an Iraq turned from aggressive, hostile power in the heart of the Middle East to an emerging democracy openly allied with the United States. No president would want to be responsible for undoing that success."

Obama is learning the truth about the economy, terror and what it means to be President, etc. It is a shame that he waited until he was elected to learn these things.
Hopefully his learning curve will be short and he will rely on "those in the know."

I'll back whoever becomes President, because that what Americans do (to a point. Clinton should have been impeached.) That's what people do who love America (hey Michelle) and want the best for the next generation.

Please, future Presidential candidates, have more experience and less naivety.

Good luck Obama, and I mean that!