Comments on: No change on renditions

By: Nightly Ramble:The Fear and Loathing Edition | BitsBlog

Nightly Ramble:The Fear and Loathing Edition | BitsBlog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:03:20 +0000

[...] and anger from the left. SITYS. Remember, gang, we’ve got years to go, yet. Oh, see Ed on this one, as [...]

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:24:57 +0000

UPDATE: Here is Rachel Maddow reaching desperately for someone to tell her what she wants to hear so that she can go back to sleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4QdUT9QSY Notice when Scott Horton presumtuously declares that the only rendition he expects we may see is like when Israel captured and rendered Eichman to their own country.

By: Obama the Malaise-Master | The Anchoress

Obama the Malaise-Master | The Anchoress — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:19:14 +0000

[...] We’ll need new language, here! The old ‘fascist nazi policy of Chimpy BushHitler’ will have to be recast as the ‘regrettable but wise and brave Obama policy that created or saved 3 Million to 4 Million Jobs Lives.’ Yeah, that’s it. Get a note [...]

By: Physics Geek

Physics Geek — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:44:04 +0000

I thought that Bambi wouldn’t be able to vote “present” as president. Turns out that I was mistaken.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:04:00 +0000

Go ahead and close Gitmo. Give prisoners a map and compass to naviagate with, and a pair of speedos and release them.

Either that or a high altitude drop and ground penetration form of repatriation.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:04:19 +0000

Obama has effectively created a race for his carefully guarded “true identity”, like a cartoon at the Bulls game. Since no one really knows who he is, the starting gun fires and you get to watch “stupid”, “incompetent”, and “dishonest” fight for the early lead in his Presidency, knowing that one of them has to win.

My money is on Dishonest by 10 lengths.

By: marybel

marybel — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:29:53 +0000

Bless their little craniums, the Kos Kidz are flipping out. I must admit it makes my heart soar. Reality is beginning to dawn, but they are still trying to stay in denial, making multitudinous excuses for their divine Messiah. One even mentioned that renditions weren’t invented by the “heinous” Boosh, but they didn’t seem to know (or perhaps admit?) that this was a Clinton invention. The ignorance there is almost palpable.

By: AJB

AJB — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:04:21 +0000

The plaintiffs sued the Boeing subsidiary for transporting them back to their home countries, and the Ninth Circuit just began hearing the appeal of a dismissal in federal district court on national security grounds.

You're either lying or horribly misinformed. Binyam Mohammed was a UK asylum seeker from Ethiopia who was rendered to Morocco, which was clearly not ever his "home country." He was then savagely tortured with the full complicity and knowledge of the CIA and MI6. Obama is covering up the crimes of his predecessor because he's apparently "one of the boys" now. Shame on him.

By: jp

jp — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:01:23 +0000

Judge Napolotono isn’t a ‘real judge’ really either, he won an election for Superior Court once in New Jersey and somehow made it from that to TV.

not long ago he was on with Shep Smith talking about how horrible it was our ‘habeaus rights’ had been taken from us, etc. etc…

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:40 +0000

It’s interesting that Obama hasn’t had the testicular fortitude to own up to his choices publicly. Will the media and the Left hold him accountable for this decision?

ROFLMAO. Seriously. I cant breathe.

By: Bruno Strozek

Bruno Strozek — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:58:51 +0000

Rendition is the equivalent of voting “present”, O-man.

You’re either all in (we’re in a real and dirty war, and we need to do what we need to do) or you’re all out (we’re in a simple and benign misunderstanding of cultures).

To do anything else is gutless.

By: rbj

rbj — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:57:52 +0000

War criminals!

By: catlady

catlady — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:57:05 +0000

Teh One is smoking up a storm! He looks like hell on all these front page pics.

baldilocks on February 9, 2009 at 5:48 PM

Guess those hours in the gym are all for naught. Wonder when he is going to get his own personal dope supplier?

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:55:24 +0000

Those national intelligence briefings are a bitch, aren’t they, Barry?

By: coldwarrior

coldwarrior — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:55:10 +0000

jp on February 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Re: Napolitano's commentary, and habeus corpus, et. al., he is wrong. To dated there has been NO successful challenge to USSC certiorari in Johnson, Secretary of Defense, et. al. v. Eisentrager, Alias Ehrhardt, [1950] establishing a nonresident enemy alien has no access to our courts in wartime. We are at war...and until it is ended, or the status of the war is changed BY CONGRESS to merely a police investigative exercise, under the complete auspices of the FBI/DoJ, Johnson v. Eisentrager stands. ,

By: catlady

catlady — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:54:32 +0000

t’s just a jump to the left…

…and then a step to the riiiiiiight.

Christien on February 9, 2009 at 5:26 PM

“Put your hands on your hips….. and pull your morals in tight…”

By: Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:53:36 +0000

O/T

Is it just me, or does the picture on the front page look like the tape behind Ogabe’s ears is about to become unsticky and those Dumbo ears are just going snap to the full force of their hugeness?

By: MikeA

MikeA — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:52:32 +0000

So, it appears that HOPE and CHANGE are mutually exclusive.

By: normsrevenge

normsrevenge — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:50:27 +0000

Change Hope. sputter.. splat!

By: kirkill

kirkill — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:48:45 +0000

As long as he doesn’t *feel* like Bush, then it’s ok.

By: Romeo13

Romeo13 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:48:36 +0000

Not a high enough profile case.

No National Media… so no reason to “make a stand” on this.

He will only change policy when he can make political points with it.

By: beatcanvas

beatcanvas — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:48:34 +0000

What I’m glad about is that 9/11 didn’t happen on Obama’s watch. Good gravy – that would have been all over the map. At least Bush/Cheney formed a successful template and now all Obama has to do is fall into step.

No other terror acts happened on Bush’s watch. If Obama varies from the template and an act of terror happens, he’ll ~~catch hell for it~~ be allowed to use Bush as a scapegoat in some fashion.

Sorry… forgot the script there for a moment.

By: baldilocks

baldilocks — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:48:22 +0000

Teh One is smoking up a storm! He looks like hell on all these front page pics.

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:48:08 +0000

So when do the peacers start calling him “Obama-itler” or “Barakitler”?

Oh, never? Okay then.

mjk on February 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM

Obamalini has a nice bandana-wearing thug with a Che t-shirt sound to it.

By: No change on renditions — But As For Me

No change on renditions — But As For Me — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:47:35 +0000

[...] If Barack Obama wanted to change direction on American rendition policy, the case of Mohamed et al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc would give him his best opportunity. The plaintiffs sued the Boeing subsidiary for transporting them back to their home countries, and the Ninth Circuit just began hearing the appeal of a dismissal in federal district court on national security grounds. With a venue as sympathetic as the most-overturned appellate court in the nation, one would expect the Obama administration to use that forum for an about-face on Bush administration rendition policies. [...] Read the rest » [...]