Reply #211: You left out a whole class of people like me. [View All]

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Those who are very conflicted about every issue. I think the challenges are too big to blame any single person (President or not) for not getting the desired outcome. I never really expected that much, so my hope is still alive. There is still a hope that the criminals will be brought to justice, and I don't think that would be true under any other scenario.

People don't seem to realize that it will take the courts to bring about justice for the war criminals, but this current Supreme Court is even worse than the one that brought us Bush v. Gore where they deemed it unconstitutional to count legally cast votes. It would make no sense to trust these animals with any decisions to be made about the legality of torture as a national doctrine. I certainly don't trust them, not even a little bit. Something must be done about them first, before any domestic question of war crimes can be rationally dispensed with.

I would just like to see any tiny action that can be interpreted so as to keep my tiny glimmer of hope alive. I think the announcement that lobbyists will no longer be allowed to participate on boards and commissions might be that glimmer I've been waiting for.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Lobbyists-on-Agency-Boards-and-Commissions

Should this be enough to keep hope alive? Maybe it is for me, for now.

Certainly the decision to keep Gitmo open (touted in the press as a decision to close Gitmo, ala the Bush Blue Skies Initiative) was a huge disappointment, and that was his first official act. People have a right to be pissed about it.