As the 2008 presidential campaign takes form, it is revealing to see how individual liberty plays.
Liberty is one of the multi-brands of the Bush administration, endlessly braying “freedom” as it pursues its vigorous enterprise to weaken legal guarantees of liberty and codify the just prerogatives of the unitary executive, known earlier in American history as the tyrant.
This anti-liberty dynamic is seen in, of course, in the Supreme Court decision (Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. US opinion preserving habeas corpus), with most rightwingers crying hysterically that the decision will get Americans killed.
Now comes the report that promising lawyers and law students were illegally rejected because of their political and ideological views from consideration into the United States Department of Justice.
Among those rejected by Bush political appointees were those whose affiliations included human rights, feminist and civil liberties groups.
This is a Republican Party hostile to the core of the very idea of liberty and working to stack the government full of GOP loyalists of the same pernicious ideology.
Obama ought call Bush out on this issue, and let McCain defend it.
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