The HopenChange crew — the most unique and all around change-y administration with which the country has ever been blessed — is proving the concept that I blogged on a few months back. As we see more and more of their polices come to life, they increasingly look like the third term of GW Bush.
They’ve super-sized the Bush administration’s policy of “abandoning free-market principles to save the free market system.” they’ve retained Gates, promoted Geithner from the NY Fed to his current position, they’ve maintained the Iraq troop withdrawal timetables that Bush and Cheney established, etc. And now, they’ve gone one step further by endorsing the Bush-Cheney policy of indefinite detention of Gitmo detainees. (Whatever happened to freeing them and shutting down Gitmo by next year?)
After attacking and campaigning against the Bush administration for its policy of holding islamist terrorists in the Gitmo detention center, Obama let it quietly leak on Friday night that his administration would be carrying on the same policies he so vociferously denounced during his campaign for the Presidency.
I expect the folks at Hot Air to call him on this latest “switch-o Change-o ™” (remember, it’s not a flip flop when Obama does it)
Jim Geraghty first wrote that all of Barack Obama’s promises come with expiration dates, and broken promises from politicians are nothing new, of course. However, one usually expects politicians — especially those running on hope and change — to either remain true to their professed core values and the issues that fueled the most passion on the campaign trail, or at least explain their change in the daylight. Obama did neither, nor did he apologize to the man he besmirched endlessly on the campaign trail while adopting the policy that Obama most demonized as a candidate.
However, even the mainstream media has now had to (at least momentarily) abandon their policy of defending the ONEs every action.
In yet another sign of political perfidy, the White House of President George W. Bush has drafted a presidential executive order that would allow that double-dealing Republican chief executive to hold suspected terrorist detainees indefinitely.
According to the president’s intentions, such suspects could be detained for long periods of time, virtually indefinitely. Is this really what the nation voted for last November?
Oh, wait. No. According to an exclusive Washington Post/Pro Publica report this afternoon, it’s the refreshing new Democratic administration of Barack Obama that’s now preparing this new executive order to hold certain terrorist suspects indefinitely.
The next paragraph in the LA Times post is positively schadenfreude-ian. Obama’s latest Switch-o Change-o™ has forced the MSM to become Perez Hilton. They’ve actually started calling him the “worst thing I could possibly say to him.” I’ll let them say it in their own words.
This is an obviously inspiring sign of the new style of leadership the Democrat promised and is finally bringing to the White House. As one blogger put it, George W. Obama. And it shows the kind of powerful political pragmatism with which the ex-senator from Illinois approaches this job at such a crucial and globally turbulent time.Strangely, it was leaked to the Post on a slow summer Friday afternoon when it wouldn’t gain much attention.
Of course the MSM — still stuck in the “do whatever you can to protect Obama” rut — tries to paint it as “powerful political pragmatism” instead of “petty political perfidy,” but they actually referred to the chosen ONE as “GW.” Something is horribly amiss.
Step outside yourself for a second and imagine the calls going back and forth between GW Bush and Cheney today. They’ve got to be splitting themselves laughing at Obama’s “powerful political pragmatism.”
Going back to my January blog post once again, we can see that Krauthammer was dead on the mark.
Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.
Switch-o Change-o™, powerful political pragmatism, petty political perfidy … However you put it, Obama lied and is now trying to cover it over by leaking it late on a Friday afternoon. It will be interesting to see how long his protectors in the media allow this to stay in the news.
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