What I am most amazed about is how these decisions can be painted and understood as perfectly rational on one hand and incredibly dangerous on the other. The White House decision, seen through the most positive prism, is a response to poor oversight and an attempt to show the world that unbridled torture will not be tolerated. The White House decision, seen through the most negative prism, is a big leap forward into a totalitarian police state taking orders directly from the top in an effort to control public discourse or freedom of opinion and behavior.
Another example of this was the exchange between Sen. McCain and George Stephanopoulos yesterday. It was regarding Gov. Palin’s remarks on her blog about the “Death Panels”. Stephanopoulos, actively acting as a democratic shill, tried to pin McCain down on Palin’s comment. Stephanopoulos was insistent that Palin’s comment was ungrounded and out of line. However, if you look at what Stephanopoulos was saying, the only way you can arrive at his argument was to see everything that the White House and the democrats on capital hill are attempting, in the most positive of lights. What Stephanopoulos and I fear the great masses of Obama supporters are doing, is dangerous. By not allowing themselves to see the world both through the prism of best intentions and through the prism of darkest intentions together, they are doing themselves a disservice. More importantly, they are doing the republic a disservice in that they are allowing an infrastructure that will afford the execution of the darkest of intentions and that execution could be the death of us all.
Axelroad may well find Obama's axe in his skull should he ever visit Mexico (for example).
Well, you see, Stephanopoulos and the rest of the complicit press believe that they will be part of the ruling class.