With all the promises of change that Barack Obama got his supporters to believe, we’re now finding out that "promises" are more like "goals". Or perhaps "hopes".<\/p>\n
Close Gitmo<\/strong> on the first day in office<\/a>? First week? First 100 days? Well, technically, he may only issue an order to do it soon, but it’s "a challenge"<\/a> to even close it within the first 100 days. The ACLU wants a timetable. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n "That’s a challenge," Obama said on ABC’s "This Week." "I think it’s going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak to help design exactly what we need to do."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It’s not as easy as some on the Left expected it would be<\/a>. The "Reality-based community" finds that facing reality isn’t what they thought it would be.<\/p>\n Iraq withdrawal<\/strong> within 16 months? Well, Biden has said that they’re going to follow the Bush plan instead<\/a>. Additional take on this and all the Iraq issues at RedState<\/a>.<\/p>\n Universal Health Care<\/strong> is being back-burnered<\/a>. Indeed, the economic crisis should be one of the top priorities, but I thought this whole scheme was supposed to save<\/em> us all money. If it’s such a win-win for the economy and<\/em> health care, why delay? Hmmm. (Perhaps it has something to do with how poorly UHC is working<\/a> in places like Massachusetts?)<\/p>\n No lobbyists<\/strong> serving in policy areas they have worked to influence in the past year. So then, September 2008<\/a> is technically last year.<\/p>\n Interrogation techniques<\/strong> that Obama campaigned against may actually get a new lease on life. Newsweek tells us:<\/a><\/p>\n Dick Cheney, who will step down as vice president on Jan. 20, has been widely portrayed as a creature of the dark side, a monstrous figure who trampled on the Constitution to wage war against all foes, real and imagined. Barack Obama was elected partly to cleanse the temple of the Bush-Cheney stain, and in his campaign speeches he promised to reverse Cheney’s efforts to seize power for the White House in the war on terror.<\/p>\n It may not be so simple<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This could be another entry in my "New They Tell Us" category. This was so simple during the campaign, but now they tell us it’s complex. Nuance, anyone?<\/p>\n All this added to Obama’s waffling<\/a> on tax cuts, windfall profits taxes on Big Oil, and FISA. Now, I have no illusion that Obama has become some sort of bedrock conservative (though he’s been seen in the company of some<\/a>), and we’re still likely to see many a liberal policy enacted. However, underneath all this complaining by the Left that the new boss seems the same as the old boss is one thought; maybe the old boss got some things right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With all the promises of change that Barack Obama got his supporters to believe, we’re now finding out that "promises" are more like "goals". Or perhaps "hopes". Close Gitmo on the first day in office? First week? First 100 days? Well, technically, he may only issue an order to do it soon, but it’s "a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,18,43,26,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-government","category-medicine","category-politics","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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