In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush

[bijou]

babsbunny   (1000+ posts)           Sat Jun-20-09 12:44 PM
Original message
In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
   

 
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/70383.html

By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred.

In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama's legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush's: White House turf is to be protected, secrets must be retained and dire warnings are wielded as weapons.

"It's putting up a veritable wall around the White House, and it's so at odds with Obama's campaign commitment to more open government," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a legal watchdog group.

TexasObserver (1000+ posts)             Sat Jun-20-09 12:59 PM
Response to Original message
3. We've gone from "Hope" to "Help!"
   
I can tolerate his equivocations on some matters, but more and more, he's simply coming across as a man without deeply held convictions about anything except not ruffling the feathers of Republicans who opposed his election.

link


More buyer's remorse. 

[Chris]

TexasObserver (1000+ posts)             Sat Jun-20-09 12:59 PM
Response to Original message
3. We've gone from "Hope" to "Help!"
   
I can tolerate his equivocations on some matters, but more and more, he's simply coming across as a man without deeply held convictions about anything except not ruffling the feathers of Republicans who opposed his election.

Well, there's a surprise.

[Lord Undies]

I think these stances are projected by the Kenyen Administration in order to keep the foundation of principle and law in shape to protect the forced release of any birth certificates which may prove embarrassing.

[Carl]

He is a bench warmer that talked himself into the game,now he has to depend on the real experts to let him know that what President Bush was doing was correct.

If only when it came to domestic issues he had the same instead of other leftist idealogs who don`t understand economics and the market.
Or just simply don`t care what the disaster is as long as it creates a stifled,dependent population.

[RightCoast]

We've gone from "Hope" to "Help!"

 

[BlueStateSaint]

Anyone disagree with this statement?

Be very careful what you wish for--sometimes, you get it.

 

[Karin]

This girl says this:

sisters6  (126 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Jun-20-09 02:37 PM
Response to Original message
7. He makes the Repugs smile.

Well, that's an admission of vulnerability.  I'm assuming you guys know about that "open letter" via Glenn Beck from Janet Contrera. Here is a link to a support petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/an-open-letter-to-our-nations-leadership  The goal was 100K sigs, and it's up to 114K right now.