At least he thinks torture is a bad thing, for the most part. Until it comes time to actually vote on it...
...it's a ridiculously depressing and appalling state of affairs, when "well at least in theory he is against torture, even though he didn't actually *vote* against it, but he *says* he's against it" is the REDEEMING QUALITY of a candidate.
We're like the frogs in the boiling water, that it's come to this. That the thing that makes a candidate stand out as being preferable to the current leader is that he is MAYBE AGAINST TORTURE, SORT OF.
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Until it comes time to actually vote on it...
...it's a ridiculously depressing and appalling state of affairs, when "well at least in theory he is against torture, even though he didn't actually *vote* against it, but he *says* he's against it" is the REDEEMING QUALITY of a candidate.
We're like the frogs in the boiling water, that it's come to this. That the thing that makes a candidate stand out as being preferable to the current leader is that he is MAYBE AGAINST TORTURE, SORT OF.
What. The. Fuck.