On Drones, Prisons and Principles

President Obama has proven to be the biggest supporter of President Bush's War on Terror protocols and policies. So much so, that recently former VP Cheney asked for an apology. President Obama has no need to apologize. But Candidate Obama does. Too bad they are not the same person.

Candidate Obama had many names for the War on Terror: illegitimate, over reaction, shredding the constitution, illegal, etc etc. He blasted the policies of rendition, military tribunals, enhanced interrogation, predator drones, and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. On his first day in office he signed an executive order to look into closing the prison within the year. And he would pull all troops out of Iraq and Afganistan immediately. Global War on Terror became Overseas Contingency Operations.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize based on his rhetoric. Or branding effort.

And here we are just a few short years (and several dozen rounds of golf) later, and we've escalated war in Afghanistan, continued Bush's time table in Iraq, carried out drone attacks (and one targeted assassination) in Pakistan, bombed Libya with additional troops on the ground, and now killed an American citizen in Yemen for his preaching. Guantanamo is still open and functioning and the military tribunals are ongoing. New Coke was not such a hit.

I wonder if Candidate Obama and President Obama have ever met.

3 years ago the interrogation of KSM was a war crime. Obama claimed he was due a civilian trial in Manhattan with full protection of the rights granted by the U.S. Constitution. By today Al-Awlaki can be blown to pieces in Yemen by a drone.

Confused yet?

So you can't put enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan in Guantanamo because of the Geneva Convention. But if you are an American citizens preaching anti-American rhetoric in Yemen... watch out!!

Candidate Obama's rhetoric of the "good" war and "Bush's" war or "war of choice"- phrases he preached in Berlin and Cairo... it's all so much more meaningless and so much more insulting now. It shows what little principle he has. And just how clueless he was as a candidate.

We are no more safe now than we were under the Bush Administration. But we are much less respected. Makes me wonder if that was the plan all along.

The liberal tautology

I loved logic. My professor was a true aristotelian and we learned all the order of syllogism (hello, Barbara) and symbolic logic with absolute precision. Disecting a logical problem was not whimsy or emotion- it was pure science and mastery.

Liberals lack logic. (I know you appreciate the alliteration).

Two years ago Jeanne Garafolo told us that the tea party's opposition to the Obama agenda was based on racism. They conjured up a story of tea party members spitting at Congressman Cleaver and called him the n-word. Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for anyone who could provide video or phot evidence of this. Alas, none was found.

So the tea party is racist.

But the fact that the party candidate is Herman Cain? Racist.

No matter what they do, it's because they are racist. And the definition of pedantic is pedantic.

I anticipate a lot more racism charges as 2012 heats up. Especially if the racist tea party's black candidate is the nominee to defeat the racists tea party's black president.

Not Surprised

Lot of talk on the blogs and in the media about the new cover of Newsweek Magazine.

Get it? Michele Bachmann is crazy!! She's the "Queen of Rage"... according to the lefty editors at the bankrupt tabloid.

This, the same magazine, that gave us this cover two years ago. How convenient that the prelude to the White House's 2010 theme of "recovery summer" was a favorable seed planted by this rag magazine.

By the way- how did that recovery summer go? Did the "God" Obama command the seasons to bloom economic growth and jobs? Or did that seed just die in the dust?

I don't dub Obama "God". No- that would be the editor in chief of said rag magazine, Evan Thomas, who in 2009 reminded us of his inordinate affection for Barry.

My favorite part of this interview is Chris Matthew's hard-hitting retort "yeah". Here is the editor in chief of a rag magazine, a theoretically non-partisan magazine, who just compared the President to GOD and the journalist in Matthews responds with "yeah". Wow... talk about kool-aid drinking. OH YEAH!!!

So- as I mentioned in the title- I'm not surprised by the current cover of the rag magazine. I'm sure Bachmann isn't either.

Can't wait to see what Newsweek has in store for Rick Perry. Or if Evan Thomas has chosen a new religion.