If there is one word that Liberals like to toss around when talking about whatever persuasion Republicans wield on the voting public, it’s that they “play on our fears.”  It usually goes somet ……

Hm! Why didn’t we think of that? President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States……

Question: Who will be the first American citizen to get locked up: Rush or an “evil” speculator? Place your bets………

rock the casbah on May 21, 2009 at 1:17 PM

Or maybe a returning veteran. DHS apparently thinks they are potential terrorists.

For years, The New York Times headlined the slightest implication that President Bush was becoming a dictator, using the most tortured logic outside of Truther websites. Now that President Obama is thinking about imprisoning persons for “preventive m….

Question: Who will be the first American citizen to get locked up: Rush or an “evil” speculator? Place your bets………

He mentioned mentioned “the Hot Air Blog” by name… no mention of any oddballs though. ;-)

Who would have predicted this?
The flip-floppingest campaigner evah became a flip-flopping POTUSTOTUS.

jgapinoy on May 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM

FIFY

This guy is a totalitarian in the making. George Bush will be seen as a teddy bear by comparison.

The golden age is definitely over, eh?

America “lost its way” under Bush, you see, by waterboarding the guy who planned 9/11. But now we’ve found our way back … with preventive detention.

Typical liberal hypocrisy that pretty much makes up the platform of the democratic party now.

Yell,scream,demonize,and point fingers at your opponents for doing the exact things you helped support them doing,then when you are in power,do the same things yourself
and then claim you are more “sophisticated” in practicing your “smart power”.

When Bush does it = war crimes

When Obama does it = smart power

“Yes We Can !!”

And Will Smith once said that Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy if you didn’t look at the Holocaust and that pesky little war thing…..

mjk on May 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Sorry, but I am going to have to bust your chops on this one.

If you look at the actual INTERVIEW, you will see that the point Will Smith is making is that “Hitler didn’t wake up and think ‘what is the most evil thing I can do today’ each morning.”(rough paraphrasing). In short, he said that evil men- like Hitler- often do not see themselves as being evil, even though- and he made this point quite clear- evil they are indeed.

Now, while it is impossible to tell with complete percision exactly what turned in der Fuhrer’s mind this far after the date, Smith makes a good point, and one that is far deeper than many of the celebutards and “journalists” have made in recent times: evil can see itself as good.

If anything, Will Smith fell victim to the same trap many Conservatives have: a sensationalist and dishonest MSM who values sales and sensationalism over truth and accuracy.

While your point is valid, let’s not fall into the hole of quoting things without checking that the Left has, OK?