Yes, but the US people appear to be dragging themselves out of their blind idiocy of the last few years, Bush is down at 19% in the polls, so if McCain thinks running as New Super Bush (the same, but more concentrated) is going to work, he's nuts.
In other good news, one of the worst people in the Bush administration, William Haynes, has left. He wrote this:
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the President "enjoys complete discretion in the exercise of his Commander-in-Chief authority", and that "In light of the President's complete authority over the conduct of war, without a clear statement otherwise, criminal statutes are not read as infringing on the President's ultimate authority in these areas." Also: "Any attempt by Congress to regulate the interrogation of unlawful combatants would violate the Constitution's sole vesting of the Commander-in-Chief authority in the President."
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Basically saying that the President is above the law. Hard to pretend that's in any way compatible with American values, really. Not sure about FDR, they may need a Lincoln and Washington rolled into one, really.