According to the latest Gallup poll, ninety percent of Democrats approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. This is a sad commentary on my blue compatriots, who apparently feel we can now rest easy that the Wicked Witch of Crawford, Texas is out of office.
While American Democrats were overcoming their election day hangovers, here was what Obama has been up to during his first six months in office:
- Proposed "preventive detention" of terror suspects. This proposal reads like a sci-fi horror story from Minority Report. If a "law" officer suspects you will commit a crime, he can hold you in "prolonged detention" indefinitely, habeas corpus be damned.
- Sent an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan.
- Reneged on his promise to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Turks.
- Instead of taking control of insolvent banks to clean up their books, the Obama Bank Rescue Plan is simply a rehash of the failed "cash for trash" Bush policies of using taxpayer money to artificially drive up the price of bad bank assets.
- Remained silent on gay isssues like the firing of Arab linguist Dan Choi and continued the ban on HIV-positive tourists and immigrants.
- Blocked the release of photos of torture victims.
- Refused to prosecute the war criminals of the Bush Administration.
- Reserves the right to torture detainees.
The Who got it wrong. Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.
At least we knew what we were getting with Bush.
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Comments
OK now that I have that out of my system I won't go into another line by line counterpoint. I feel better already.
I worry that his wonderful gifts as a communicator mask an agenda not so different from the barely literate GW.
I just finished Mick Arran's post on the continuing financial clusterfuck. He's holding no one accountable, the good ole boys just get bailed out and their back on their ignorant, arrogant,greedy, criminal ways.
A big fuck you to us all.
Go Alaska!
Afterall, if his numbers are still 65% approval, then either he's doing something right and the majority of us are on the right track OR he is as wrong as you say he is and the majority of us support it. If that's the case, I'm much more concerned about the general public than I am about Obama.
Noahvose: My problem with Obama is he is attempting to make inhumane policies like prolonged detention into law. And he is so popular, that stories like these get buried everywhere but here. Not even Keith Olbermann brought this up. But thankfully our own BBE did in his prolonged detention post.
And speaking of debacles--no President with the exception of FDR has come into office with a bigger mess to try and straighten out than Obama. Unfortunately, that has become his agenda and if he succeeds at that over the next 3 1/2 years then he will have earned another 4.
The electorate (and I'm including some bloggers and commenters) have a collective ADHD when they can't get what they want right effing now from the "new guy". It's like a little kid looking forward to the new babysitter and then having a tantrum when he can't get unlimited popsicles. Get real folks.