“Obama Has Always Been At War With Bush, Winston”

It’s Orwell 101; a dictatorship must have an enemy, to take the peoples’ minds off their own domestic woes.

Now, Obama’s not a dictatorship (knock wood).  But Rick Moran notes that he’s got reasons for putting Goldstein Bush Administration figures on trial that have a whole lot less to do with the law than with public relations:

A distraction like this is just what the doctor ordered to take people’s minds off the fact that the stim bill isn’t working, that there is a growing call from Obama’s left flank for a second stimulus measure, that his cap and trade bill is in big trouble in the senate, and that it is far from certain that his his health care plan will come out the way he wants – with a public option that will be paid for without taxing the middle class.

Rallying his base to the cause of prosecuting Bush administration officials for torture will also take their minds off how he has betrayed them on a host of issues from gay rights to his agreement to indefinite detentions of terrorists.

So might this unleashing of Holder on Bush era torture crimes be nothing more than a distraction from the woeful economy that is resisting the president’s importunings to improve? Obama wouldn’t be the first president to use the tactic and he wouldn’t be the last if that is his game.

The One wouldn’t be that cynical – would He?

A good old fashioned investigation with strategic leaks and the spectacle of Bushies marching into the Justice Department to testify would serve as excellent bait for the media who no doubt would go overboard in their coverage of the hated Bush administration’s torture policies.

Bread and circuses worked for the Roman pro-consuls who used the spectacles to distract a populace constantly on the verge of starvation.

When you see it popping up on the “E” Network and Oprah, you’ll know you’re onto something.

I would never bet against it.

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