Sprinkled among all the confusion, obfuscation and emotional overreaction surrounding President Obama's decision to withhold certain photographs, there are a number of comments equating Barack Obama with Dick Cheney and/or George W. Bush.
If one of the comments is yours, let me be as blunt as possible: you are an idiot.
Be warned. I will now start hide-rating comments equating Obama with Cheney, and I encourage others to do the same.
No, not really. I want to, but I won't. Why not? Because it's against the rules.
Rules are another name for laws. Laws...those things that President Obama is trying hard to follow while he negotiates the narrow ledge that his predecessor placed him on.
I want torture prosecuted. I have written to the President telling him so. I think the photos showing abuse of detainees should be released, but I don't agree with some here that it has to be this month. That's fine. We disagree.
If I were like Dick Cheney, I would just tell the "Obama=Cheney" morons to go f#%k themselves. Not only would I hide rate their "Obama=Cheney" comments, I would follow them through other threads on other, unrelated topics and hide rate those comments, too. Then I would write a diary under a new, less ruminant user-name exposing some manufactured "facts" about these losers.
Then I would lie. About everything. I would lie just for the sheer fun of lying. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. LOOK AT ME! I'M LYING AND YOU CAN'T DO A F#%KING THING ABOUT IT!
But I won't. I am a stickler for rules. We had four years of lawless evil forced upon us by our Supreme Court, and then another four by our gullible fellow Americans. I didn't live through that nightmare, then work my ass off to help end it, only to say to hell with the rule of law just because my guy is in power. And I won't leave unchallenged any uninformed, inflammatory, and just plain stupid commentary equating Obama with Cheney.
If the comments are yours, know that I will respond if I see them. I'll be courteous (sort of), but I'll tell you you're wronger than wrong. Obama does not equal Cheney. They're not even in the same zip code.