Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?

[Ben]

Buyers Remorse

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 withdraw 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/o...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.

[10th letter]

haha, gives fox news a run for their money for being "fair and balanced"

yeah those damn israeli bastards tore through gaza for the fun of it, in fact i heard obama called to say aim for the heads of the little kids, save bullets...way to give both sides...piece of shit article by a piece of shit

[Congobongo]

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!

On the basis that they were never apprehended on US soil, no deportation notices were issued to make them travel to the US and several other western governments were complicit in illegally transferring them to Guantanamo, there is no basis to try them in a civil court, it would just be thrown out...

[BlkJewels]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah

OBAMA 4 life!!!!!!

[Congobongo]

Yeah, bring back this guy, the world was a much safer and open place before Barack

[Nowhere]

I am so bored with this. Blah, blah, blah, it's the same old record played forever. Bush or anything resembling him has been proven to be as bad as it gets for this country, so until I see a better alternative, this is just retarded.

I would really love for once, someone to not just regurgitate Hannity and come up with something actually using their own brain. Maybe that would actually fix the GOP, which is at it's weakest point in a very, very long time. Evolve or die.

[Congobongo]

or die.

we're praying...

[a994]

That dude can say what he wants, I'm happy with Obama. Is he perfect? Of course not. Only Jesus Christ is. And Obama has to deal with those in Congress and the Senate who disagree with his policies, same as any other President we've had (although they did roll over for Bush-League after 9/11).

Just give Obama time, and don't expect him to be a miracle-worker.

[GroobySteven]

I'm really happy with Obama so far.
Really happy.

[Trowa]

Damn...can't give a brother 5 minutes with the job before you bash him. We still have another 3 and a half years at least. This long into his first term what was Bush doing? Wasn't he playing golf or some shit?