Friday, October 23, 2009
Joe is getting very disillusioned
In his latest column, Joe Galloway writes about all the achievements missing from the Obama administration.
This year, in the 10th month of his presidency, it doesn't really seem that they can, or that he can. Nothing much has changed except the size of the federal budget deficit and the National Debt, both swelling and swollen by the humongous bailout of Wall Street and the big banking corporations.This and other missing items make Joe think that in 2012 Obama will be running on a new slogan,
Any hope that we'd witness and celebrate a return to the rule of law after the departure of George W. Bush and his unindicted co-conspirators has long gone a' glimmering. President Barack Obama would rather face an uncertain future than look back at an ugly past.
Never mind that this nation was founded on the concept that no man, however powerful, is above the law, not even a king.
The president-to-be promised a swift withdrawal from the Iraqi quicksand, but that hasn't come to pass, either. Instead, we witness a slow-mo pullout that will sort of end things on the Bush administration's timetable of late 2011 for the last American combat troops to be gone, and God only knows when for the rest to leave. That's if the Iraqi parliament can pass a new election law in time for elections to be held on schedule in January.
Obama promised that America's Devil's Island, the prison for terrorists and not-terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, would be emptied and shut down by January of 2010, That doesn't look very likely now, either.
No We Can't!
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