Some key points I've noted:

--For a child (when captured)
--Testimony extracted under torture admisable
--It is now a war crime to attack a USA uniformed soldier in a war zone

And simultaneously at Gitmo, a secret Fed plea deal where the sentence for Osama's former cook is a state secret. This is something completely new in American jurisprudence, the secret sentence.

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So, what is the professional left busy with? Calling Gibbs an asshole.

I think, as top shelf flack, he can handle that just fine. (So shed no tears fan-boys.)

Remarkably, what we aren't talking about is torture and Gitmo. You know, actual evil shit done in our names. Would suck to have an actual national dialog about that.

Oh, who'd bring it up? Who would actually talk about Gitmo, tribunals, our wars, torture, etc.?

That's right kids, the professional left, whoever that is (I doubt Gibbs really knows exactly who he means either). I mean, NOW we know who the "professional left" is: the professional left is anyone incensed by the term "professional left."

I think Gibbs hit it out of the park in a spectacular feat of misdirection and political calculation.

I mean, if I were say Tylenol Inc., and I had a big stack of poisoned pills I just had to sell, well, he'd win a spot right the fuck at the top of the short list.

Was it news that Obama burned the left? No, it wasn't, not to the left. But it sure is now. The limited attention span is amazing, owning the news cycle is amazing!

And, as always, don't think there's just one level to this stinky onion. But I think you'd be hard pressed to find issues so contrary to Obama the candidate positions as what is happening, today, at Gitmo.