Andrew Sullivan: U.S. stopped being a free country under Bush

[DonViejo]

Andrew Sullivan of The Dish claimed Monday night the United States stopped being a free country under the Bush administration, citing the alleged military detention and torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla.

During a CNN panel discussion on the terrorist attack, Sullivan criticized what he saw as an overreaction to the Boston Marathon bombing. He noted that only three people were killed by the two explosive devices.

“I’m not minimizing it, but there are God knows how many people die every day of street violence in this country,” he said. “And I do think, frankly, obsessing about this particular incident kind of helps terror… I don’t think we should shut down an entire American city because two losers have a couple of pressure cooker bombs.”

Sullivan condemned the lockdown of Boston during the manhunt for the bombing suspects, claiming it was basically martial law.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/30/andrew-sullivan-u-s-stopped-being-a-free-country-under-bush/

[mwrguy]

1. I seem to remember him being a cheerleader for bush

For about the first half of his term.

[UTUSN]

2. Yip, he neglected to add, "as enabled by Andrew SULLIVAN..." n/t

[Fumesucker]

3. I'll have mine with a kosher coke please..

[indepat]

4. Big brother teaches us to be terrified at the prospect of an incidence of terror while accepting

daily killings by handguns and occasional massacres by military-grade assault weapons as an inevitable part of everyday life in America.

[Robyn66]

5. Andrew Sullivan should shut the F**k up!

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He was one of Bush's BIGGEST cheerleaders and just loved to be smug and talk down to the liberals and THEN he FINALLY got with the program and now he is talking out of his ass AGAIN about something he knows NOTHING about. If you want to know about what happened in Boston, ask Will Pitt. He lives right in the middle of where it happened and according to him it was FAR from Martial Law! I have no interest in what this bloviating pompous ass has to say and neither should anyone else!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Yep. Wasn't that about the time he was calling liberals "fifth column"?

[geek tragedy]

6. Yeah, only a complete dipshit lurches into flailing panic.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/10/08/did-obama-just-throw-the-entire-election-away/

[Dawson Leery]

8. Sully was one of the Bush cheerleaders.

It was Bush and his supporters who promoted these type of tactics.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Self Serving Sully fails to note that not only did he cheerlead for Bush, then for Bush's wars and

domestic policies he also sneered and snarled at any and all critics of any Bush policy, he accused anyone who opposed invading Iraq to find WMDs and yellowcake of being 'stuck in the 60's' and he did this for years and years.
He was a propagandist for Bush as well as against anyone who dared criticize Bush or anything Bush did. Sullivan thought there were WMDs! He libeled peace protesters.
This is a man who should never say more than 'My name is Andy and I am so sorry'.

Here is Sullivan in transition, still a Bushbot, attacking liberals and spinning Bush's maliciousness in 2005:
" Look, I have no substantive beef with wiretapping some domestic calls in the war on terror, but I think the administration was typically heavy-handed in not seeking bipartisan consensus and not relying on existing law, when both could have brought the same result. One reason the war has lost domestic support is not simply because of the recalcitrance of the anti-war left, but because the Bush administration has done all it can to alienate its supporters in the center."

The recalcitrance of the anti-war left. That's Andy Sullivan.