On Fri, 27 May 2011, Ted Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 06:43 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Sounds like Obama hasn't just embraced Gitmo, he's embraced secret laws through "Opinions" written by flunkies of the Office of Legal Counsel as well.
What a pity that a guy who we all expected would be one of history's great presidents has turned into one of history's worst embarrasments. I would never have believed that GWB could be seen as a "moderate" standing next to Obama, but the truth is there for us all to see.
So sad.
What you mean by "we all" is "I", right?
No. What I mean is "we all": anyone who looks can see. I don't know anyone [personally] who voted for Obama (and implicitly for his "change platform of closing Gitmo; ending the wars; ending renditions; looking out for the little guy over the big corporations; the so-called "no lobbyists" policy - which he has ignored completely; etc.) who is not completely *disgusted* by what has happened: we voted for "change", and what we got was a spineless version of GWB, only he's a GWB with *more* wars to his name, and ZERO change. Obama had a genuine mandate when he took office (with a majority in both houses!), and should have used that mandate to effect the changes he ran on - but instead, he dallied and wavered until he eventually cost his party their majorities, and cost himself credibility. How can anyone take *anything* Obama says seriously, when we have already been shown (repeatedly) that he is little more than a serial liar who is completely, *100%* OWNED, by the very corporations and special interests he campaigned "against"? Now he's trying to abolish the 2ad by using a treaty which even KKKlinton refused to touch - selling it under the false premise that it is the only way to stop the flow of weapons from the US to Mexico. Just because Mexico is farther down the corruption highway than we are doesn't mean that we should be making fundamental changes to our country just to make it easier for them! Obama is a failure. He's been a failure from day 1. He's a spineless POS, and an embarrassment to the country. McCain was at least honest about his policy positions (yay for big business, to hell with the little guy): Obama is a hypocrite. Which is worse? Hard to say, really. We need 3rd party representation, and I'm NOT talking about the Teabaggers, I'm talking about a Kucinich or Ron Paul candidacy which is allowed to be shown to the country via the debate process (the last 4 election cycles have deliberately blocked these two from any meaningful participation. Not that I don't understand why: if allowed to speak freely, openly, and to the masses, they both would have a very serious shot at unseating the RepubliCrat machine (which pushes the same platforms from both of the "mainstream parties" - one party rule has never worked in any [supposedly] democratic society - it's not working here either). //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.