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“Obama reverses policy, won’t release detainee photos”

I think my man got this one right. According to cnn.com, President Obama said today that he told government lawyers to object to a court-ordered release of additional Pentagon photos showing alleged abuse of detainees because the release could affect the safety of U.S. troops and “inflame anti-American opinion.”

I agree with the president. Our kids are in enough trouble over there. There’s plenty of precedent for not releasing this kind of anti-propaganda while troops are still in the field.

There will be a time when we can release all the ugly details of the “War On Terror” and go after the surviving war criminals. Hell, we’re still deporting former Nazis to Germany. Yay us!!

Regrettably, justice will probably have to settle for being served just as cold in this instance as well.

Because it’s not like Obama’s actions today are going to magically turn time backwards and keep us in the dark about the horrific events that took place, or that losing access to this particular batch of pictures will significantly misconstrue the ugliness of what we already know about what occurred in our name on Bush’s watch.

No, the interest in these photos is more like slowing down when you pass a fresh wreck on the freeway, or hauling ass over to TMZ.com as soon as you see a former beauty queen on “the Today Show” making excuses for the nude photos that have just wrecked her pageant career.

We don’t need to know this, we want to know it. We want to see some metaphorical blood on the allegorical asphalt.

The same goes for opening up investigations right now on all the twisting and torturing of the Constitution by Bush administration officials. “Right now” being the key part of that sentence. Obama either can’t do it all right now, or he’d have to somehow maintain a clean-hands stance while the Democrats and the media linked arms and went after the Bush administration with pitchforks by torchlight.

Obama’s good, but he’s not that good.

The sad political reality that Obama is facing is that, if he wants to have even a hope in hell of getting any GOP votes attached to any of his pending legislation, he can’t participate in what would inevitably devolve into a partisan snipe-hunt, which is how the opposition media would spin it from day one anyhow.

The really sad part is, I think Obama’s going to bow to this political reality and still not get any Republican votes. The GOP’s strategy these days is to hope like hell that Obama fails, as so eloquently put forth by their preeminent radio mouthpiece. If the president falls on his face and none of their names are associated with his failure, the political zeitgeist gets a reboot native to their OS.

That’s it. That’s all they’ve got, and they’re going to work it like a two dollar whore on Fleet Week. Already it’s all they’ve done so far this year and everybody on that side of the aisle is just holding their collective breath waiting to see if this is a gamble that pays off and things get even more desperate for Americans. Proud patriots that they aver to be...

They should change their name to the DOP, the Delightful! Old Party.

Like: Oh won’t it be DOPe when the lawsuits are settled and Al Franken is finally seated in the senate and Republican votes suddenly cease to have any practical political currency anyhow? Then no one can blame them at all for hitting the cruise control, cranking up the Rush Limbaugh Show and hoping for a good, old-fashioned wreck on the highway to make their day.