Conservative blogger, Andrew Sullivan on the characteristics Gov. Rick Perry has in common with those who served in the Bush administration:
“It has sickened me - the lack of morality, the lack of accountability, the constant recourse to mass amnesia [Sullivan is talking about the Bush administration]. And in a man like Perry, you see all the characteristics of this belligerent, diplomatically autistic, aggressively stupid, and fundamentalist psyche. The dragon we thought we had slain is stalking the land again.”
Since yesterday, the most ubiquitous right-wing meme on the web regarding the death of Osama bin Laden has been the one were, in a nutshell, “Bush deserves the credit. The information came from a Guantanamo detainee who was tortured. This is Bush’s achievement.” (Please also note how unashamed they are to claim the “credit” for the use of torture.) Think Progress:
Bush loyalists have been “irked” over the past 24 hours that they are not getting credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, arguing that their torture program helped bring about intelligence that led to the mission. Karl Rove said “the tools that President Bush put into place –- GITMO, rendition, enhanced interrogation” led to the successful operation. Similarly, former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the mission “rested heavily on some of those controversial policies” from the Bush era.
In large part, this came up due to a report by The New York Times yesterday that the information came from a Guantanamo detainee:
Ted Olson, former George W. Bush solicitor general, attorney behind the
case against California's gay marriage ban, and husband of a woman who
died aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, said
Wednesday that President Obama was right about his analysis of the "Ground Zero Mosque" as a constitutional right protected by the First Amendment.
Well it may not make me hap-- popular with some people, but I think, probably, the president was right about this. I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build
edifices, or structures, or places of religious worship or study where
the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of
thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by
extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith. And
I don't think it should be a political issue. It shouldn't be a
Republican or Democratic issue, either. I believe Gov. Christie from New
Jersey said it well, that this should not be in that political,
partisan marketplace.
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