24 March 2011

That scary, racist, redneck George W...

...wait a minute...
Before becoming president, Mr. Obama had criticized the Bush administration for going outside traditional criminal procedures to deal with terror suspects, and for bypassing Congress in making rules to handle detainees after 9/11.

He has since embraced many of the same policies while devising additional ones — to the disappointment of civil-liberties groups that championed his election.