"The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever --
and he's taking us into the darkness with him."

"And then you read the paper and realize the country is led by a man who isn't
paying attention, and you hope that somebody will poke him. Or put a sign on his
desk that says, "Try Much Harder.""

"The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever, plus
being blind."

"From within the Pentagon bureaucracy, he did battle against Donald Rumsfeld
and John Yoo at the Justice Department and shadowy figures taking orders from
Dick (Gunner) Cheney, arguing America had ratified the Geneva Convention that
forbids cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners, and so it has the
force of law. They seemed to be arguing that the president has the right to
order prisoners to be tortured."

"Wiretap surveillance of Americans without a warrant? Great. Go for it."

"Wiretap surveillance of Americans without a warrant? Great. Go for it."

"According to the leaders of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, our country is
practically as vulnerable today as it was on 9/10. Our seaports are wide open,
our airspace is not secure except for the nation's capital, and little has been
done about securing the nuclear bomb materials lying around in the world."

"The U.S. Constitution provides a simple ultimate way to hold him to account
for war crimes and the failure to attend to the country's defense."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature...03/01/keillor/
By Garrison Keillor

HTH
--
Cliff