I was a staunch supporter of Barak Obama for president. I made a mistake. I thought he was different. I thought he meant it when he called for change. He was either lying then or he’s simply sold the cause of change down the river, having been changed in his soul by a hundred days and change in the big house.
The Obama administration will announce plans today to revive the Bush-era military commission system for prosecuting terrorism suspects, current and former officials said, reversing a campaign pledge to rely instead on federal courts and the traditional military justice system.
Word of the decision infuriated human rights groups, which argued that any trials under the system created by President George W. Bush would be widely viewed as tainted. They said President Obama was duplicating Bush’s mistakes.
[LA Times]
Yes we can? Well, maybe we could have. And maybe we still can someday, but not with this guy. Because damn right he’s making Bush’s mistakes. He’s doing Bush’s evil, nothing less. The American system of justice is by its nature an open meeting, an act of the people’s conscience, not an act of war. And Obama knows that. He’s not the idiot that Bush was, he’s a lawyer of formidable skill. Which makes this even worse from him.
So I will not be voting for Barak Obama again.
May 20, 2009 at 10:11 am |
My, aren’t we touchy.
May 20, 2009 at 11:58 pm |
Yeah, I kinda regret going off on that rant. It’s not circumspect or very mature. But it serves as an abject lesson of the depth and intensity of my nauseated frustration with Bush and my hopes for change when he was finally gone. I don’t expect Obama to be perfect, but if he phones it in and goes to the zoo, with so much to gain and lose at this time, then I think I’m just going to existentially shit myself. And I can’t be the only American who feels that way.
June 3, 2009 at 4:45 am |
I’m somewhat disappointed with the military commissions idea. He hasn’t taken a vacation at the ranch, yet; so, I’m pleased.