UPDATED: Obama Poised to Disappoint the Left…Again!
Yoo Knew This Was Coming (via Instapundit). Obama won’t prosecute former Bushies for “war crimes” and has been quite aggressive in maintaining the essence of Bush’s national security apparatus for the benefit of his own administration, so defending John Yoo shouldn’t be too surprising.
Still, Yoo is such a super-villain among the Left that the moaning and rolling of eyes among the Leftie commentariat will be widespread, if not muted so as not to seem too anti-Obama. At the least, hundreds of knee-jerk liberal law professors will cry themselves to sleep tonight over it.
Andrew Sullivan will probably twist himself into a pretzel making excuses for Obama, the way he twists all reason to convince himself he is a conservative.
But what will Glenn Greenwald do? I guess he can only hang on to Hope and settle for little Change.
Welcome, Instapundit readers. And thanks for the link, Prof. Reynolds!
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