Bush accepts McCain's ban against torture.

President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. Bush said the agreement will "make it clear to the world that this government does not torture and that we adhere to the international convention of torture, whether it be here at home or abroad."

"It's a done deal," said McCain, talking to reporters in a driving rain outside the White House.

This is such a no-brainer that the fact that this has to be brought before the Senate should be an embarrrassment to everybody involved. It is just another example of how deep the damage is that this administration has done to the values that America has always held dear. We are being spoken of around the world in the same sentences alongside China and Korea when it comes to human rights violations. This is an outrage!

We should be a paragon of virtue, beyond reproach, but we are not. We have lost the moral high ground and possibly irrevocably detroyed our reputation for many, many years to come.

Bush sits beside McCain, smiling and talking about how they have been working together toward the same goal, when all the time he was threatening to veto this bill and sending his cronies to undermine it in the Senate.

And it is shameful that McCain does not call him on his bullshit! McCain has been forever diminished in my mind every since I watched him hug the president like some giddy schoolgirl.