Legal Commentary

That Obama-A Sullivan Thing

By Big Tent Democrat

Glenn Greenwald:

Ambinder's Atlantic colleague, Andrew Sullivan, quickly praised Ambinder for his "reporting" and -- after arguing just two days ago that Obama was becoming retroactively complicit in Bush's torture program as a result of shielding it from scrutiny -- changed his mind and has now decided that Obama's embrace of Bush's state secrets theory shows how wonderfully "pragmatic" (the all-purpose Obama-justifying term) and thoughtful and sober Obama's governing style is.

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Sadly, it appears I am the last person who remembers Sullivan's slobbering over George W. Bush for years and years (and the last person to remember his constant slanderings of Paul Krugman and of Al Gore and Bill Clinton before that.) Not to mention his New McCarthyite attacks against opponents of the Iraq Debacle, his championing of the Bell Curve, etc. He is wearing the right team jersey now so everything is good.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).