It’s a dystopian nightmare terrible enough to send you screaming into the night:
Glenn Greenwald – Political Blogs and Opinions – Salon
After highlighting all the scary, fringe positions Edwards holds, O’Reilly summarized what the Far-Left America would look like once John Edwards got done with it:[W]ould you support President John Edwards? Remember, no coerced interrogation, civilian lawyers in courts for captured overseas terrorists, no branding the Iranian guards terrorists, and no phone surveillance without a specific warrant.
Who could even fathom an America plagued by habeas corpus, search warrants, and a military that fails to beat, freeze and mock-execute its detainees? And nothing is more sacred to core American values than branding other countries’ armies as “Terrorists” (“The [Revolutionary] Guard is the SS of Iran”).
The stalwarts of the far right must be wetting themselves in abject fear at the thought of restoring basic rights. The horror, the horror…