Is It Too Late To Swap
Obama For McCain?
By Mike Whitney
May 18, 2009 "Information
Clearing House" --- Anyone
who has ever wasted good money on a clunker only
to drop the transmission 15 minutes after leaving
the car-lot, knows the feeling. It's like a swift-kick
in the groin followed by weeks of fist-pounding
rage. It's called buyer's remorse; "Gawd, I
wish I hadn't bought that piece of dogshite!"
There are probably a lot of former-Obama
supporters feeling that same agonizing sense
despair now that President Rainbow has done an
about-face on every campaign promise he made. So
much for "truth in advertising", eh?
What a disaster. Did anyone know it was gonna be
this bad?
For the record; I didn't vote for Obama because I
didn't like the way he backpedaled on wiretapping
and because he promised to escalate the war in
Afghanistan. (Like everyone else who voted for
Ralph Nader; I got loads of grief for it) But
that doesn't mean I didn't want Obama to succeed.
I did. The country is in too big a mess NOT to
hope that he would succeed. But now...?
Let's
just forget about the fact that Obama never
lifted a finger to stop Israel's two week rampage
through Gaza which killed 1,100 unarmed civilians
and destroyed much of the critical infrastructure.
And let's give him a pass for equivocating on
Iran, Georgia, missile defense in East Europe,
Cuba, NAFTA, FISA, torture, war crimes, the
Employee free Choice Act (EFCA) and any other
issue that's important to liberals, progressives,
leftists or anyone else who eats with a fork or
walks on two legs. And let's excuse Obama for
stepping up the air war in Afghanistan even
though another 140 Afghan villagers were blown to
bits 10 days ago while sitting in their schools,
sleeping in their beds or having dinner with
their families. (After all, Obama did say he was
sorry, didn't he?)
But
now Obama is backing off on his promise to
withdrawal troops from Iraq in 16 months. And,
now he's planning to restore Bush's kangaroo
courts (Military tribunals) for prisoners at
Guantanamo who've never even been formally
charged with a crime! And, now, he's threatening
to hold some prisoners indefinitely in the U.S.
without trial. (http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/14/obama-mulls-indefinite-detention-without-trial-for-detainees/)
I don't know about you, but I believe that
America is based on the idea that every man has
certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of
all those rights is the right to know why the
state has thrown your ass in jail. That's numero
uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole
judicial system rests on that one foundation
stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in
habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American"
in my book because they don't believe in the
underlying principles.
Does Khalid Sheik Mohamed--the so-called "9-11
mastermind"-- deserve his day in court?
You're damn right he does! That's how the system
works. Deal with it.
Obama is an unprincipled poseur; a snake charmer;
a complete phony. No wonder the gushing David
Brooks has been singing his praises lately. No
wonder Andrew Sullivan calls him the "Neocon
in Chief". Heck, even Cheney was talking-up
Obama's bloody AfPak policy a few days ago. That
says it all, doesn't it?
Here's a blurp from Murdoch's far-right rag, The
Wall Street Journal, that sums up Obama perfectly:
"Mr. Obama deserves credit for accepting
that civilians courts are largely unsuited for
the realities of the war on terror. He has now
decided to preserve a tribunal process that will
be identical in every material way to the one
favored by Dick Cheney."
Hypocrite.
We'd be better off with that doddering old fool
McCain. At least with McCain you know what you're
getting.
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