If you're being pummeled from the left and pummeled from the right, it is easy to make it stop

[Stinky The Clown]

Pick

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[Kalun D]

1. That is only an option

if you think everything is black and white.

it's one of the reasons our "democracy" is weak, we only have 2 parties, it's a "duopoly". Most other thriving democracies have several parties.

[wyldwolf]

2. nah, I prefer it that way

right there in the middle with most people in the US.

[Jim Sagle]

3. They PICKED a side - just not our side.

[TwilightZone]

4. Pummeled from the left? On DU, maybe.

His approval ratings among liberals in the real world are quite solid.

[Robbien]

5. I believe this relates to the meeting Obama had with human rights groups on Gitmo

The human rights groups told Obama that he is siding with the Bush admin policies. Obama was very miffed and said he wasn't but went on to reiterate his Gitmo plans which is essentially standing firm with the Bush admin policies.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Obama met with Human Rights Group about Gitmo?

That doesn't sound bushlike at all!

Who'd you get your info from? That Corp media drone Isikoff? :rofl:



Under heavy criticism for a series of decisions on national security that resembled, for some, those of the Bush years, President Barack Obama hosted a lengthy meeting on Wednesday with the leaders of several key human rights and civil liberties groups.

Addressed were the topics that promise to be front and center during the President's major foreign policy speech scheduled for Thursday.

According to an attendee, Obama expressed frustration with Congress' decision to remove funding for the closure of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. The president declared that his hands were tied in some ways regarding the use of reformed military tribunals, though he pledged to try as many detainees as possible in Article III federal courts.

Hours after the meeting, the Associated Press reported that the administration plans to send Ahmed Ghailani, a top al-Qaida suspect held at Guantanamo Bay, to New York to face trial. Ghailani will be the first detainee held at GItmo to be brought to the United States, and the first to face trial in a civilian criminal court.

Speaking to human rights officials on Wednesday, the president also left the door open for the future release of detainee abuse photos, saying that his administration's current opposition to the release was dictated by immediate concern over the complications it could cause to America's mission in Afghanistan.

More broadly, Obama said he was determined to build a new structure for executive oversight that would last beyond his presidency, preempting the problems he currently confronts from happening again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/obama-huddles-with-human_n_206104.html

Read the whole article, as it frames it differently from corp Isikoff

[TwilightZone]

8. Wow, the trifecta.

The Gitmo funding, the abuse photos, and the tribunals, all addressed in the meetings.

[Robbien]

9. Of course Obama met with human rights groups

He was surprised that anyone on the left actually spoke up and opposed his actions. As far as he knew everyone on the left has been sooooo very supportive of everything he does that when word seeped into his bubble about some lefties being upset with him, he had to go and try to bring them back into the fold.

It worked for that guy at Huffington Post (but from his previous articles he has always been very supportive of Obama's policies), but didn't work for the ACLU:

Obama in political box over Guantanamo
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=955175〈=eng_news
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press

Concerns on that front were sufficient Wednesday that Obama met in the White House with ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero and representatives of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and other such organizations.

"I left the meeting feeling discouraged that President Obama plans to continue with many of the same policies of the Bush administration," Romero told The Associated Press.

[greyl]

7. Or go up. nt

[burning rain]

10. If you're being pummeled from the left and pummeled from the right,...

you really shouldn't have to be the one to make breakfast. I'll put it that way.

[sammythecat]

11. What is it in here? Sharks vs Jets?

Pick a side and then what? Pledge unconditional allegiance?