While this is obvious; a man or woman of character and integrity would never allow such atrocities to occur under his or her watch, I have no problem at all with it being discussed regularly.  

Obama is right: we need to re-claim our moral stature in the world, and this sort of thing is the first step.  Publicize the hell out of it.

i hope so. but in terms of parsing words, George W also says 'we don't torture.' saying that and actually (re)enforcing it with specific edicts and laws is another matter.

i agree this is essential, but not going to assume it will be done just because I'm a Democrat and Obama's a Democrat, and no reason for anyone else to be naive on this, either, and assume the best out of what Obama says. I have no doubt there'll be changes, but there needs to be a clean break from Bush's arrogant denial of international law. How this will be done remains to be seen.

Sully is freaking out over John Brennan.

Every appointment and story is getting too much analysis and critisism.

Obama won.  
Give him some time and wait until he is in office before we start condemning him.

I thought about writing a diary posing the question of how much time should be spent chasing down David Addington, John Yoo, and whoever else was at the bottom of this torture policy.  I say "Torturing Democracy" on PBS a few weeks back and it is disturbing to say the least.  Part of me thinks we should throw the book at these guys (and maybe girls) for high-minded justice and world image reasons.  Another part of me thinks we just need to change the policy and move on.

In the end, it probably doesn't matter what any of us thinks, the Congress and the DOJ are extremely unlikely to do something like this and it creates an enormous vacuum for phoney patriotism by the Republicans.

But I'm curious what others think about it?