Another comic that hits the mark

Nifty

Funny and sad

So true

Continuity of the Wrong Kind

"The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law.

On Monday, a Justice Department lawyer dispatched by the new attorney general, Eric Holder, appeared before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The case before them involves serious allegations of torture by five victims of President Bush’s extraordinary rendition program. The five were seized and transported to American facilities abroad or to countries known for torturing prisoners.

Incredibly, the federal lawyer advanced the same expansive state-secrets argument that was pressed by Mr. Bush’s lawyers to get a trial court to dismiss the case without any evidence being presented. It was as if last month’s inauguration had never occurred.

Voters have good reason to feel betrayed if they took Mr. Obama seriously on the campaign trail when he criticized the Bush administration’s tactic of stretching the state-secrets privilege to get lawsuits tossed out of court. Even judges on the panel seemed surprised by the administration’s decision to go forward instead of requesting a delay to reconsider the government’s position and, perhaps, file new briefs."

Obama disgraces himself again

Yet another bit of news to enrage and sadden those of us that voted for Obama, hoping for change, and praying that we would not be let down. He seemed so sincere!

Well it looks like we get more of the same Bush tactics when it comes to denying the world access to the truth. The Obama administration is not only allowing those that tortured under Bush to use the Nuremberg defense, but he has re-applied the state's secrets act to a lawsuit that threatens to expose the wrongdoings of the previous administration. This makes his campaign promise A BIG LIE.

Bravo, Obama! Thanks for failing us again...

The US is full of idiots

That is my opinion of the state of our country. While we may have a President that is smarter than the previous cowboy to sit in the Oval Office, those around Obama seem to be as incompetent as the flies that circled the manure on Dubya's boots. We have tax dodgers, lobbyists, hawks, and drug warriors rushing in to fill the positions vacated by the outgoing tax dodgers, lobbyists, hawks, and drug warriors of the last administration. WHERE IS THE CHANGE?? Not only is Obama NOT cutting defense spending (as erroneously reported by an idiot), he is increasing it by 40 BILLION over last year's amount.

The Michael Phelps scandal is more proof that our collective IQ is in Bush territory. Why is this such a big deal? Marijuana is less dangerous than aspirin, and it is a PLANT! It isn't a drug. Phelps should not apologize for having fun. If I won 8 gold medals in the Olympics, I would tell everyone that only the losers in government (and their media lapdogs) think Marijuana is dangerous. Winners know better.

Can we believe in change?

I feel very conflicted about the Obama victory. On one hand I am excited to have a President that will not be the center of jokes. Obama won't act like the village idiot, and he won't distance America from the rest of the world. He is a rebranding of America, and one that is way past due. His victory is also a clear indication that this country is a land of opportunity for people of all skin tones.

But what kind of opportunity are we talking about? Should I be excited that the plutocrats are no longer racists? Should I dance a little jig because a black man can sell out as easily as a white man? Because Obama has sold out, and that is why he won. The elite fear change, unless change is merely a slogan, and that slogan has been part of every Presidential campaign since the birth of this nation. Nothing ever changes though. I take that back... a little. One thing will change. Obama won't be the huge screw up that Bush was.

While Obama won't say or do the stupid things Bush did, he won't undo them either. He won't end the War on "Terrorism" (he will expand it), and he won't restore our civil liberties. In fact Obama is surrounded by key players that have helped create the mess we are in.

So lets give ourselves a pat on the back for electing the first Black President, but lets not forget that Obama offers us more of the same we got from Bush.