Bloodthirsty Liberal

Maybe it’s not always a lie:

My friend Debra Burlingame was at last week’s meeting between President Obama and 9/11 and Cole bombing families. 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America reports: “During the meeting, President Obama was wrong on the law, wrong about what Boumediene v. Bush afforded the detainees held at Guantanamo, and stated the public’s perception about Guantanamo is confused with Abu Ghraib.”

And maybe again it is:

Obama repeatedly characterized his opponents (the Republicans) as people who want to do nothing about the current economic crisis:

As I said, the one concern I’ve got on the stimulus package, in terms of the debate and listening to some of what’s been said in Congress, is that there seems to be a set of folks who — I don’t doubt their sincerity — who just believe that we should do nothing.

This is not just disingenuous; frankly, it’s an outright lie. The question is whether it’s an effective one. Don’t most people who would bother to watch a televised press conference know that the Republicans have made all kinds of alternative proposals? One would think.

Obama’s attacks on the Bush administration were equally silly:

First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then, you know, I just want them to not engage in some revisionist history. I inherited the deficit that we have right now and the economic crisis that we have right now.

Right. And that’s why his first act as President is to double or triple the deficit? Why, then, doesn’t he say that the Bush administration was following the right policies, only needed to go farther?

Get out of here with that logic s**t.

When confronted with arguments like these, I hear only two responses: give him a chance (sure he wants to invade Poland, conquer France, and exterminate the Jews—but just give him a chance); and “whaddya want, more Bush?”

Elections have consequences, as they say, and the consequence of November 2008 is that we have become USA-SSR. Some of us may oppose this (at list 46% of voters did), but it’s not fair to elect someone with the intellectual and practical training of Barack Obama and expect him to act any differently. I might even charge racism.

It’s his country now, we just live here (until our Australian visas come through).

Kidding! Unlike Alec Baldwin, we’re not going anywhere.

What’s that, neither did he? He just grew fat and happy under eight years of President Bush? Or just fat.