Here are some elqouent things I just read about torture:
My friend Don Brown, in response to his reading of J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year.
Two posts (first and second) by Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo.
Mark Danner's second article in the New York Review of Books. (Here's the first one.)
As for me, my line remains the same: put the guys on trial (guys = people you arrest for terrorist crimes AND the people who ordered that they be tortured).
[Still waiting to get my new computer fully operational. Once I do, I'll get the Daily Poem Project back up to date!]
Showing posts with label Josh Marshall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh Marshall. Show all posts
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, September 11, 2008
A Campaign of Lies
"... John McCain is running a campaign almost entirely based on straight up lies."
If you're not sure what to do about the horror of McCain's campaign, then follow the advice of Josh Marshall:
"This is clearly a testing time for Obama supporters. But I want to return to a point I made a few years ago during the Social Security battle with President Bush. Winning and losing is never fully in one's control -- not in politics or in life. What is always within our control is how we fight and bear up under pressure. It's easy to get twisted up in your head about strategy and message and optics. But what is already apparent is that John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest and race-baiting campaign of our lifetimes. So let's stopped being shocked and awed by every new example of it. It is undignified. What can we do? We've got a dangerously reckless contender for the presidency and a vice presidential candidate who distinguished her self by abuse of office even on the comparatively small political stage of Alaska. They've both embraced a level of dishonesty that disqualifies them for high office. Democrats owe it to the country to make clear who these people are. No apologies or excuses. If Democrats can say at the end of this campaign that they made clear exactly how and why these two are unfit for high office they can be satisfied they served their country."
McCain may win, but those who have seen through him have to do their best to expose him as the liar he is.
If you're not sure what to do about the horror of McCain's campaign, then follow the advice of Josh Marshall:
"This is clearly a testing time for Obama supporters. But I want to return to a point I made a few years ago during the Social Security battle with President Bush. Winning and losing is never fully in one's control -- not in politics or in life. What is always within our control is how we fight and bear up under pressure. It's easy to get twisted up in your head about strategy and message and optics. But what is already apparent is that John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest and race-baiting campaign of our lifetimes. So let's stopped being shocked and awed by every new example of it. It is undignified. What can we do? We've got a dangerously reckless contender for the presidency and a vice presidential candidate who distinguished her self by abuse of office even on the comparatively small political stage of Alaska. They've both embraced a level of dishonesty that disqualifies them for high office. Democrats owe it to the country to make clear who these people are. No apologies or excuses. If Democrats can say at the end of this campaign that they made clear exactly how and why these two are unfit for high office they can be satisfied they served their country."
McCain may win, but those who have seen through him have to do their best to expose him as the liar he is.
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