During Obama's annual Thanksgiving address to the nation, he left out one important detail. And that is he did not mention God in the address. This has enraged some conservatives who see this as clearly a blasphemous sin, with Ben Shapiro commenting that Obama was a "militant atheist." Aside from the downright idiocy that Obama is a "militant atheist," there is something else seriously wrong with the conservative movement when it sees a lack of moral character in a man who does not mention God in a Presidential address, but sees a morally upright citizen in the previous President.
George W. Bush admitted openly that he approved torturing select detainees. And he has claimed he would do it again. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE??????? On something that is a clear violation of human rights, the conservatives have either said it's not "really" torture, calling water boarding "enhanced interrogation" (one thinks of Orwellian euphemisms here) or saying that the torture led to valuable intelligence. Both claims are false. Americans prosecuted Japanese who water boarded Americans for war crimes, but then we ourselves did it and the people responsible have not been brought to justice. It's also false that torture led to valuable intelligence. Torture makes people talk to make the procedure stop, but it does not guarantee reliable information, which is obvious to anyone who has not deluded themselves into believing it is somehow morally justifiable to torture another human being.
And recently all but two of the Republican Presidential candidates (Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul) said they believed torture should be continued in select circumstances. The hypocrisy of the American right never ceases to stun me.
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