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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Subject: re: Obama and the Confidence Game
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Subject: re: Obama and the Confidence Game
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
It is impossible that president Obama won't disappoint most of us in some way; too many disparate hopes ride on his presidency. One thing he can do to buoy our confidence is to distance himself from the crimes and cover-ups of the last administration. This means freeing any detainees from Guantanamo and other secret prisons who cannot be charged with crimes. Some of them may well proceed to assert--honestly--that they were tortured. That charge is a stain on the last administration, and not on Obama's. Americans voted for change, that that can't be satisfied while our government continues to defend the indefensible.
Barry Levine
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