Snippets Were Bad, Then. Now, They're Ok!

During the campaign, Obama complained that comments made by Reverend Wright and his wife were just "snippets" being taken out of context to hurt him.

In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Barack Obama said that using those "snippets" of his wife's statements were both "low class" and "detestable." (See Full Story)

This snippet defense was used so often by Barack, that Ken Eliasberg, a noted writer and lecturer, wrote an opinion piece about it in October 2008: "Snippets? Associations? Who is Barack Obama?".

Now, zoom forward to this week when Obama was willing to release an extremely select group of memos regarding the Bush Administration interrogation techniques. You might say that they, too, were the same kind of "snippets" that Barack complained of during the campaign; but, now, when Barack is the "snippetee" he seems to think that tactic is just fine. Of course, using his own words against him, it appears that he, now, is one of those who could be considered "low class" and "detestable."

When former Vice President Cheney asked that all the pertinent data/memos be released so those "snippets" could be put into full context, the Obama henchman, Eric Holder, said that the Administration wasn't going to "play hide and seek" with documents for political purpose. But, in the same breath, said he wasn't sure what documents Cheney was talking about. I think the original release of those memos were "hide and seek" for political reasons. Those memos whipped up the left so that now they have just enough information, those out-of-context "snippets," to pursue full Congressional and/or independent investigations and hearings.

The B.S. in all of this is that now, Obama, the "low class" and "detestable," has said, as of Thursday, that he doesn't support any independent panel to investigate the Bush Administration (See Full Story). But, this is just an Obama ploy. He's already seeded Congress and his base on the political left with the release of those memos. Now, by saying he doesn't support any investigations, he can just sit back and let them happen in Congress without making it seem like he was really responsible. Remember: Obama said he was against any independent investigation. He didn't say he objected to Congress conducting one.

That's so Obama...always trying to have it both ways!