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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Sources close to the matter the resignation, first reported by CNN, came under pressure from the White House, where officials were furious about his suggestion that the Obama administration is mistreating Manning, the Army private who is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico, Virginia, under suspicion that he leaked highly classified State Department cables to the website Wikileaks.

Looks like Obama is now defending mistreating prisoners and even punishing those who speak out against it. An interesting turn. I guess that Guantanamo thing isn't going anywhere any more either. I think I agree with Andrew Sullivan's take on this.

More Republican family values:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/13/wi-repub-lives-outside-district-with-mistress-says-wife/

So, the political party that offers family values defines that as sitting Senators liking whores in diapers, sitting members of the Congress with 'wide stances', leaders of the xenophobic wing having sex with underage Mexican illegals, potential Presidential candidates that talk about defense of marriage even as they divorce cancer-stricken wives and are on their third marriage (Newt Gingrich) and three marriages in general, despite rhetoric from them about Christian values, when Jesus and Paul and Peter all condemned divorce more harshly than Moses did.......

And now there's this, one of them who lives outside his district with his mistress, who is 25 while he's 45. So I'm going to ask, does anyone besides these people take them seriously when they bemoan threats to family values and the sanctity of marriage? I mean it would seem to me that a political party dedicated explicitly to defending a Christian view of Marriage would have taboos on divorce in general, and particularly divorce and re-marriage.  On the other hand, there's a famous celebrity from Oop North who advocates abstinence even as her daughter parlays being a teenage mother into being a celebrity. Go figure.......