What Is Most American: John McCain or Gitmo?

B’Man: crossposted with honor at The Largest Minority, even tho I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to embed video on his blog.

Hey Rednecks!

BuelahMan here. I’m sitting in for Manila while he is toiling away in the 100 degree Las Vegas heat (but it’s a “dry” heat). It’s 100 here and a “wet” heat… actually a very unusual 75 and partly cloudy. If you haven’t heard, I’m revolting… from a Redstate, that is. But enough about this old crazy redneck.

Poor old McInsane is slippery when it comes to policy. He flips right when you expect him to flop even righter. He does so with abandon because no one in the MSM is really holding his feet to the fire. He gets by with stuff largely because the Big Media tries to cover it over with bullshit (Rev Wright, fist bumps, etc)… or they simply don’t care, while hypocritically holding others under a magnifying glass.

Is there hope? If more Patriots stand up like Dennis Kucinich did, inspiring the frightened little Bushie sheep (especially the capitulating Dems) to grow the spines necessary to hold these monsters accountable, I’ll have hope. A sure sign of change will be a real investigation into the Articles of Impeachment set forth.

I even hold hope that the slightly lesser right wing Dem, Barack Obama (who is blinding us all with his whispers and hints of hope and change) will ask the right questions of his opponent, especially regarding the conflicts and flip-flopping associated with his long, illustrious career. Let’s insist that Ralph Nader and other candidates get the chance at some debates and town hall meetings, for then I know these things will be illuminated.

With that in mind, would it be too much to ask one of you presidential wannabes to actually address one of these issues? Especially like the one that Manila pointed out to me today. It grips McCain by the short and curlies, if someone would just address this in a way that folks will see it.

Do our military bases in other lands constitute them being US property or not?

UPDATE: video change and description below.

June 12th 2008, SCOTUS ruled on the case:

BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH.

In which they ruled that the detainees in the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay have the right to Habeas Corpus, which is the right to face your accuser on why you have been imprisoned. It’s also called The Great Writ as it’s historically been an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action.

In the dissenting opinion, Justice Scalia (joined by Roberts, Alito and Thomas) insist that the US Naval base in Cuba is not on US sovereign land and therefore the Constitution and US Law does not apply. McCain agrees calling the dissenting opinion saying its “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country”.

That leads to us to –

The McCain Paradox