Re: Gitmo. The new spin is that the Republicans made him follow Bush’s policies. – An excuse for everything but . . . Can there be anything to this?
Remember Reagan’s deficits were accompanied by loud cries in the establishment media about how necessary for him to “compromise and cooperate” with the Democrats in Congress. In his time, the Democrats controlled the House and also at the end controlled the Senate, too. It was unfair to lay all the blame for the deficits on him and it may be unfair to blame all that’s wrong on Obama, too.
However, the President is the one guy in the position to do things if anybody is. One gets the sense that Bush was really right on these national security issues and that, more than the politics, is what’s driving Obama’s Gitmo decisions.
I suppose that they could have said, “The devil made me do it. – And the Republicans but I repeat myself.”
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
Excuses are not the same as leadership
mspector (Diary) Thursday, March 10th at 12:30PM EST (link)What we see with Gitmo, as with the budget, as with the failure to exercise any kind of leading role in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, is that Obama simply cannot lead. He makes high-sounding pronouncements (“Mubarak must go”; “Gadaffi has lost legitimacy”) and then hosts game-day parties for Chicago teams while Biden drifts around Northern Europe and Hillary asks the international “community” to take the lead on Libya.
It’s an old axiom that the easiest way to avoid making mistakes is to do nothing, and that seems to be where Obama has pitched his tent. But I believe the American people want a leader, want someone who is less enamored with the perks of office and more willing to make the tough choices and take the hard stands the current situation requires, both at home and abroad.
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” (Thomas Paine)
“A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.” (Ronald Reagan)