One suspects that Obama's campaign team will not be using this letter as a springboard to catapult their warmongering, corporatist leader back into the White House.

Vote third party in 2012.

It's shameful for a Constitutional law professor to proliferate the systematic obliteration of the Constitution. The System considers itself above the law, and is even cynical in its disregard (e.g., referring to the Geneva Conventions as "quaint").

Obama is a Corporate bitch, a Wall Street whore, a Tom.

I'm not a Con Law pro, like The Tom, but I hear he call play some hoops. So I'm calling you out, bitch. Let's talk Con Law. Any time, any place.

I'm glad that these esteemed scholars are now coming forth to denounce Barry's acquiescence of Manning's torture. But, in all honesty, I wonder what took them so long. Have they now just awakened to what has been going on in AmeriKKKa since the SCOTUS selected W Bush as president?

It's possible, just possible, that Tribe doesn't belong in the dock at The Hague with his adorable Frankenstein Monster, but he supported the Imperial President (not to mention the Manchurian Imperial Candidate) much too long. To hell with Tribe.

For this Bradley Manning travesty alone, Obama deserves to lose big-time in 2012. The Guardian has it right when it points out that Obama made the rule of law a cornerstone of his campaign. To many of us, this is what his promise of "change" was all about.

I never expected any revolutionary change with Obama, but I must admit, I thought at the very least, this former constitutional law professor would begin to reinstate the constitutional rights that had been systematically stripped away by the Bush administration. But what does he do instead? He expands these torture policies, beginning the process of applying them to American citizens.

I don't know what is going on with this country, but I am beginning to think that people much more powerful than the president have decided that it is time to turn the USA into a full-blown fascist dictatorship (not this quasi-fascism we've been living under for some time). Obama appears to be a more than willing accomplice, but I really wonder if he has any power at all.

Change, it appears, will never come through the ballot box, because it doesn't seem to matter who is president -- the policies are always the same.

Of course, they will do what they always do, and try to convince us to vote Democrat in order to preserve the woman's right to choose and the one or two remaining New Deal programs. But, whatever, I'm not falling for it again. Both parties have to go.

The way Obama turned from Progressive to Uber-conservative immediately after the election gives credence to assertions that he is not a "born" US citizen; therefore, the ruling elite have sometime to blackmail him with.

One has to wonder why he turned so suddenly?

.....and where is the AP, the NYTimes, the WSJ, the WashPo?

....or a mainstream reporter to demand that Obama tell us why he thinks Manning's treatment is appropriate?

A courageous young man disgusted with the lies and horrors of war sits alone in solitary confinement while a monster sits in the oval office, a guardian of wealth, a dispenser of death.

The entire system of justice in America is in decline and hanging by a thread.

http://www.gpln.com/ijuror.htm

Rewind to the election of 2010: I remember vividly the culture war that unfolded on this site between the non-Obama (third party voters) and the true believers advocating his cause. Many of those who were THEN bashing us, are now on this site as some of Obama's harshest critics. (I commend their turn around, if not their vision circa 2010.)

One of the arguments that circulated in 2010 and 2009 was that Obama was a legal scholar tuned to civil rights mandates and law. They told us that this was a major difference between Obama and Nader or Mckinney and he would honor those legal precedents.

But now we know who the real Obama is and that happens to be light years away from his legal education and experience.

Obama has proven again and again, that he is someone who upholds the extremes of the military industrial complex; he is a man who never seen a fight, he was not willing to run away from with all due haste; and perhaps more importantly, he is always open to capitulate to the Tea Party extremes, if that means a protracted and brutal fight awaits him. Or to put it differently, Private Manning, has no more value to the man, than the innocents he routinely murders via his war policies using unmaned drone strikes on non combatants who Amnesty International asserts has taken over 50K lives of innocent woman and children.

"Hope and Change are so YESTERDAY!" OS

Free Bradley Manning ? I would sincerely hope I am wrong, but believe it will not happen as he is the man who knows too much. Trump may be full of it, but his investigation that Barry is not an U.S. citizen; where he says it is the con of the century, would be so sweet if he exposed the evidence that would prove it. If Trumps crazy ( it seems to me ) theory could be proven true, then Obama could join Mr. Manning.

"...Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be America's foremost liberal authority on constitutional law. He taught constitutional law to Barack Obama and was a key backer of his 2008 presidential campaign."

Harvard has long been an approved CIA headhunting ground. Many, many students at Harvard have gone on to long and successful careers working for America's premier spook factory. Barry himself later worked for a documented CIA front operation, Business International Corporation, with multiple trips to Afghanistan he refuses to talk about to this day. Reporters who have asked about his time with BI have had their Presidential/White House access revoked.

This professor pissing and moaning about how badly the Obama Junta is abusing Pvt. Manning is just more smoke and mirrors.

Without his teaching, Obama would not be the Corporate whore he is today.

I studied constitutional law with con law professors, including Gerald Frug, now at Harvard. Obama was not a "constitutional law professor". He was a Chicago politician who was, at a very young age, teaching some classes in which the students read, and were quized on, con law cases.

Our president has sold his soul to the devil, the multi-horned devil of greed, hubris, lies, war and destruction. He has joined the anti-American cabal of the Bush administration and his behavior is indefensible. We cannot give Obama the benefit of the doubt given his actions, I don't care what he promises in his speeches.

When I said in the last election that Obama is the best con man I have ever seen;' I guess Tribe just proved my point, as it looks like he conned his own Harvard Professor! He also conned some of my progressive friends. What a travesty!