a terribly odd post from the NCADP
Courtesy of today's Washington Post, here's where Barack Obama stands on the death penalty. In a nutshell: He's pro-death penalty but he is also pro-let's not execute the wrong guy.Abolish the Death Penalty: Barack Obama and the death penalty
the post goes on to talk about how obama pushed for mandatory videotaping of interrogations. i found the whole thing a little bit absurd and posted this comment:
while obama's work you've outlined here is great and all, we all know that there is no fool proof way to make sure the wrong man doesn't go to death row except abolishing the death penalty, so obama's actions feel almost like a vain attempt at winning votes on both sides of the death penalty debate. let's not find ourselves had by another sweet-talker.the whole thing whiffs like the NCADP is aching to support obama, and i don't blame them, he's a fucking superstar and could possibly be the first african american president and that means PROGRESS, right? i feel the same way about wes clark. i want to support wes clark but there are some things that just simply are not ok with me. killing people, under any circumstance, is one of them. whether you're female, black, hispanic or mildly-retarded like bushy-boy.
a similar article on another possible candidate, wes clark: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2003/11/24/425/03288
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Hi! Thanks for your post and your recognition of our little blog! I wanted to leave two comments. First, it really must be stressed that NCADP cannot and will not endorse anyone for president. What we can do, however, is tell the public how candidates stand on the death penalty. Second, the reform that Obama sponsored in the Illinois Legislature -- requiring videotaped interrogations -- is a pretty important reform. A good number of the 3,350 or so people on death rows across the U.S. are there because of coerced confessions. Indeed, coerced (or otherwise false) confessions represent one of the top three causes of wrongful convictions in death penalty cases in the U.S. today.
All that said, sure I'd like Obama to go a step farther and flat-out stand for abolition. But I also don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
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