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Daily Kos —
... youth was Neda, whose music teacher, Hamid Panahi, was at her side when she died. I asked Panahi if she said anything after the bullet struck. “Yes,” he told me, “She said, ‘Mr. Panahi, I burnt.’ ” Richard Cohen has Barack Obama's back when it comes to dealing with Iran. Uh-oh. Charmaine Yoest starts out by saying the Supreme Court has a "lopsided liberal tilt" and it's all downhill from there. Bob Herbert isn't happy: Americans should recoil as one against ...
Bob Herbert
Suburban Guerrilla —
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Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House.
Wrong Under Bush, Wrong Under Obama
TalkLeft —
Via Susie Madrak, Bob Herbert: Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. [It is] distressing is the curtain of secrecy the Obama administration has kept drawn over shameful abuses that should be brought into the light of day. . . . The Obama administration is also continuing the Bush administration’s abuse of the state-secrets privilege. . . . The Bush and Obama view of the state-secrets privilege effectively bars any real examination of such egregious mistakes. ...
New York Times: Obama is failing
USS Neverdock —
They crowned him and they own him.
Let it bleed
The Sideshow —
... Asking, "Who Are We?" Bob Herbert says, "Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the Obama administration has been its unwillingness to end many of the mind-numbing abuses linked to the so-called war on terror and to establish a legal and moral framework designed to prevent those abuses from ever occurring again." And then there's the ugly spectacle of progressives who hated Bush's policies acting like everything is okay when Obama ...
Christopher Brauchli: Secrets and the White House
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... off, the coal extracted and the residue shoved into valleys and streams below the former mountains. Mr. Obama's critics would like to know which coal company executives have visited the White House and what their influence may have been. It sounds sadly similar to the questions that were asked but not answered when Dick Cheney's energy policy was being developed. One hopes the similarity is illusory. But this example (and a number of others described by the New York Times' Bob Herbert) leads one reluctantly but inexorably to the sense that it's deja vu all over again. ...
