In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, [President Barack] Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to [Khalid Shcikh] Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."
Er, isn’t there this weird “presumption of innocence” concept in American jurisprudence?
Obama reminds me of the old 50’s westerns I used to watch as a kid. The sheriff rides up to the vigilante mob about to hang the rustler from the nearest tree and says “No, no. We’ll take him back to town, give him a fair trial, then hang him.”
And Bush was supposed to be the cowboy President.
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