GraniteGrok

It is no secret that I love computers - after working with them for over 30 years, it has been quite the ride from paper tape as a storage medium to gigabyte thumbdrives, from 300 baud modems to megabit FIOS to the curb, and when an IBM 360/370 filled an entire room with raised tile floors with special power and air conditioning setups have morphed into wearable computers (computer clipped to one's waist, arm based keyboard, and a "monitor on glasses" rig).

You know, perhaps the White House geeks ought to get wearable TOTUS (TelePrompter of The United States) for the Cool One: he certainly seems to miss having podium sized TOTUS  at the ready ALL the time.  As Andy McCarthy at NRO points out (emphasis mine):

In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be "convicted" and had "the death penalty applied to him" . . . and then said he wasn't "pre-judging" the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC's Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president's interfering in the trial process. Obama said that wasn't his intention. I'm sure it wasn't — he's trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won't matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool. Nice work.

Pshaw - The One couldn't have made such a gaffe, could he?  After all, he was "sold" to us during the Campaign as a "Constitutional Scholar" - this could not be, eh?  No "Constitutional Scholar" would ever make the statement that the result of a trial was a preordained "guilty", would they?

Why, that would mean....hmmm, not sure the ramifications of THAT thought are sinking through electorate just yet, but it does bring up the phrase "Truth in Advertising", doesn't it? Where is WTOTUS (Wearable TOTUS) when you need to keep Mr. HopeyChangey on message????

One more shoe dropping because of this....the distinct chance that Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) could end up "innocent" via a mis-trial.  There are far better folks that have been commenting at length on this all over the blogosphere - far be it for me to try to play being a lawyer, even on a blog, but that is the Rule of Law - guilty or innocent. Let's forget one of the most injurious parts of bringing an enemy combatant to the point of being a mere criminal that is that our intelligence system, already deeply wounded by Obama and Holder's actions, may not be revealed to the very terrorists we are fighting (and not always by what is said, but by what goes unsaid as well) during the Discovery phase of the trial.  This action now also affords the same rights as you and I as citizens - so what's the difference between us and them?

If the opportunity is there to be declared guilty, then there MUST be the opportunity to be held innocent as well - otherwise, what difference would there be between the current US and the old Communist show trials?  Is that the message that Obama screwed up on?

Effectively, Obama, in his headlong rush to "distribute our wealth" to other countries by devaluing the dollar, this one act goes a long way to devaluing the notion that being an American Citizen means something special in the world as well.

Tell me, what has Obama done to raise our standing in the world?  Right now, China, Russia, and Iran all seem to be taking Obama's community organizing "outreach" and responding back with a single upraised finger - so much for "smart power" diplomacy.  Add to that, the dollar is heading to into the toilet and we can, because of his debt ridden policies, hear the flush starting.

I am really starting to Hope that the 2010 mid-terms start giving us Real Change.

Oh, BTW, don't worry Fergus, I haven't forgotten about you yet.