Edward Berge
Obama administration files to dismiss case against John Yoo
Jonathan Turley, lawyer and Law Professor, makes a compelling case that the Obama administration is using the same arguments used by lawyers and jurists of the Third Reich on trial at Nuremberg. Arguments that the world, and the US, has heretofore found unacceptable. And all the more ironic since Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. So this is the change we can believe in?
Here’s an excerpt from Matt Baibbi in Rolling Stone on Obama’s economic performace to date:
“What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.”