Commentary: Obama waffled on torture -- and looks weak - CNN.com

Commentary: Obama waffled on torture -- and looks weak - CNN.com: "Many wanted these documents released, and the president, after a month-long internal debate, gave them up. At the same time he said he had no intention of prosecuting the drafters of those memos or anyone else in a federal agency, mainly the CIA, who followed those guidelines.

The Right went nuts over the release of the documents. The CIA felt betrayed. The Left went nuts over the contents of the memos and pressed to have the authors -- high Justice Department officials in the Bush administration -- prosecuted, investigated and maybe even tortured! The president went to the CIA and gave them a cheerleading speech.

The next day he reversed himself and said it's up to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Congress to determine if any laws were violated by the former officials.

He waffled big time. Now all sides are mad at him and he looks weak. Weakness is the death knell for a president. With 1,366 days to go before this term is up, Obama's got to get tougher or he will be viewed as a personality who reads well from a teleprompter."

Releasing the Justice memos opened a door and the contents repulsed many people. But these were not evil men who drafted the memos. These were not evil people who carried out the methods authorized by them. They were our fellow citizens who were trying to protect us from the real evildoers.


When CNN starts questioning the great "One " and starts actually showing some genuine journalism I can for see three things happening.

#1 MSNBC will have to follow suit soon or have no viewers at all. We may actually start hearing negative stuff about Obama after all.
#2 Obama's poll numbers are going to drop through the floor.
#3 Obama may have to actually start acting like a president not some college kid who has no experience but a lot of theory inbetween his parties in class.