[Home] [Headlines] [Latest Articles] [Latest Comments] [Post] [Sign-in] [Mail] [Setup] [Help]
Status: Not Logged In; Sign In
|
Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: McCain: Guantanamo Decision One Of the Worst Ever; McCain: Guantanamo Decision One Of the Worst Ever June 13, 2008 03:51 PM John McCain heightened his rhetoric about the Boumediene v. Bush decision, which grants the Guantanamo detainees to question their confinement in civilian courts: "The Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," McCain said. The statement met with great approval by voters at the candidate's town hall meeting: The crowd of more than 1,000 supporters, packed into a gym at Burlington County College, exploded into applause at McCain's comments. The presumptive GOP nominee then read from Chief Justice John Roberts' dissent, and predicted the courts would now be "flooded" with habeas corpus lawsuits. The harsh rebuke is a sudden shift from McCain's position yesterday, when he first learned of the decision: It obviously concerns me . . . but it is a decision the Supreme Court has made. Now we need to move forward. As you know, I always favored closing of Guantanamo Bay and I still think that we ought to do that. In contrast, here's Senator Obama's reaction: Senator Barack Obama: Today's Supreme Court decision ensures that we can protect our nation and bring terrorists to justice, while also protecting our core values. The Court's decision is a rejection of the Bush Administration's attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantanamo - yet another failed policy supported by John McCain.
Poster Comment: For those who claim that there is no difference between McCain and Obama, and that it does not matter which one is president, their reactions to the recent Gitmo decision by the Supreme Court proves otherwise. That decision proved that we are one Supreme Court vote away from total fascist tyranny. Bush appointees Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas voted for fascism. Ford appointee Stevens, Reagan appointee Kennedy, GHW Bush appointee Souter and Clinton appointees Beyer and Ginsburg voted for the Constitution. Three of the five non-fascist justices are expected to retire in the next president's term. It matters now more than ever that Obama be that president, not McCain. You can't really afford to sit this one out, purist non-voters. It's time for you to reengage and vote Obama to save this Republic from totalitarian Fascist tyranny.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 46.
#44. To: Arator (#0)
The fact that this situation even came to be is symptomatic of the mad world into which the Bush regime has carried us. I abhor both the Gitmo situation and the SC decision ... so I'm at a loss to come up with a rational reply.
You proved with your following post that that doesn't stop you.
There are no replies to Comment # 46. End Trace Mode for Comment # 46.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
||
|
[Home]
[Headlines]
[Latest Articles]
[Latest Comments]
[Post]
[Sign-in]
[Mail]
[Setup]
[Help]
|
||