Ashcroft: O-b-a-m-a not B-u-s-h, Only difference between Bush & Obama is how they spell their names

[kpete]

Ashcroft: Only difference between Bush and Obama is how they spell their names.»

ashcroft-mean.jpgIn a new article about how the Obama administration will confront the legal challenges of Bush’s war on terror, former Attorney General John Ashcroft defends the continued detention of a terror suspect, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, on a naval brig in South Carolina. Al-Marri has been held as an “enemy combatant” for more than seven years, though the government has yet to charge him with a crime. Ashcroft told the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer that the only difference between Obama and Bush on detainee policy will likely be how they spell their names:

John Ashcroft, who was Attorney General when Marri was designated an enemy combatant, makes no…apologies. Interviewed just before the Inauguration, he defended what he described as a “sound decision” to “maximize the national interest,” and predicted that, in the end, President Obama’s approach to handling terror suspects would closely mirror his own: “How will he be different? The main difference is going to be that he spells his name ‘O-b-a-m-a,’ not ‘B-u-s-h.’”

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/18/ashcroft-obama-bush/

[Deep13]

1. Remember when Obama sold us out to his Texas and Saudi oil billionaire buddies?

Me neither.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I remember the selloout on FISA. nt

[Bake]

4. I haven't forgotten that one either, Captain!

:hi:

Bake

[Captain Hilts]

5. I understand the politics involved, but it STILL stings.

Thanks for not jumping all over me!

xoxo

[spanone]

3. a s h c r o f t and a s s h o l e...no difference whatsoever

[missingfink]

6. Ashcroft lost Senate seat in 2000 to a dead man

In the 2000 election, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan beat incumbent John Ashcroft for the US Senate seat. Carnahan was dead at the time having been killed in a campaign related plane crash prior to the election. The joy of Ashcroft losing that election was soon nullified by GW Bush appointing this zealot to the office of US Attorney General.

[Deep13]

7. It's still pretty damn funny. nt

[Sherman A1]

8. Bingo!

It was something of a made work project for unemployed Republicans or at least one in particular.