So You're Disappointed With Obama?
Oct. 19th, 2012 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxBoo hoo. Suck it up. Vote for him. Vote for a Democratic Congress AS WELL. You can't vote for one and not the other, and here is a bunch of reasons why.
So you're disappointed that he didn't close down Gitmo. So? I'm disappointed that Car Number 3, the Convertacar driven by Professor Pat Pending, never came in first in Wacky Races. Doesn't stop me wanting to watch the show. Actually, I think he won three of the 34 episodes - a good innings - so I can go by the thought that he might win one or two as reason enough to want to watch the show and laugh at Dick Dastardly's eternal failures.
Gitmo might not just disappear just because we all wish it so. It may take a lot of time. Here's an example of how slow some changes happen. It took 23 years for the injustice of Hillsborough in the UK to be rectified. And that is with the UK. The US' legal system is even larger, more moribund, more hidebound - and that doesn't even take into account that Gitmo is a political decision made by Shrub, rather than a legal one created by the Justice Department, which means that the President has to get /Congress/ on his side to make it happen.
It took until 1992 for the Salem Witch Trials' verdicts to be overturned - an injustice which happened in 1692.
If Gitmo closed in 2017 it would be a long wait, but nowhere near as long as that.
And as to the reason why change has been so slow, there is a reason why - just as there has been a cause behind such conspicuous trumpeting of failures on Obama's part.
This negative press has been deliberate.
This current Congress have been mostly Republican, and they have blocked and vetoed so so many bills and propositions that would have made a difference - even proposed ideas they themselves came up with, which they U-turned on simply because Obama said he liked the idea.
You have been let down, not by your President, but by your Republican Congress led by a cabal of traitors who abused their power to block, veto, suborn and weaken Obama's position, smearing his name, pointing out things like Gitmo to you to make you feel disappointed so you will vote for RMoney instead, throwing out the baby with the bathwater just because they don't like the colour of the President's skin.
I can't tell you how long it will take for Gitmo to be disbanded, but look at what he /did/ bring in - Obamacare, the repeal of DADT, saving the US car industry and the lowest public spending in US presidential history.
And he finally delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, effectively cutting the head off al-Qaeda and providing closure to the families of thousands of his victims - something Bush very deliberately and conspicuously failed to do, because he had no wish to get rid of such a convenient and useful CIA-trained pawn.
He's made your country rich today. Vote him in along with a Democratic Congress that will back him up so he, or his Democratic successor in 2016, can close down Gitmo and the DHS and the TSA tomorrow.
So you're disappointed that he didn't close down Gitmo. So? I'm disappointed that Car Number 3, the Convertacar driven by Professor Pat Pending, never came in first in Wacky Races. Doesn't stop me wanting to watch the show. Actually, I think he won three of the 34 episodes - a good innings - so I can go by the thought that he might win one or two as reason enough to want to watch the show and laugh at Dick Dastardly's eternal failures.
Gitmo might not just disappear just because we all wish it so. It may take a lot of time. Here's an example of how slow some changes happen. It took 23 years for the injustice of Hillsborough in the UK to be rectified. And that is with the UK. The US' legal system is even larger, more moribund, more hidebound - and that doesn't even take into account that Gitmo is a political decision made by Shrub, rather than a legal one created by the Justice Department, which means that the President has to get /Congress/ on his side to make it happen.
It took until 1992 for the Salem Witch Trials' verdicts to be overturned - an injustice which happened in 1692.
If Gitmo closed in 2017 it would be a long wait, but nowhere near as long as that.
And as to the reason why change has been so slow, there is a reason why - just as there has been a cause behind such conspicuous trumpeting of failures on Obama's part.
This negative press has been deliberate.
This current Congress have been mostly Republican, and they have blocked and vetoed so so many bills and propositions that would have made a difference - even proposed ideas they themselves came up with, which they U-turned on simply because Obama said he liked the idea.
You have been let down, not by your President, but by your Republican Congress led by a cabal of traitors who abused their power to block, veto, suborn and weaken Obama's position, smearing his name, pointing out things like Gitmo to you to make you feel disappointed so you will vote for RMoney instead, throwing out the baby with the bathwater just because they don't like the colour of the President's skin.
I can't tell you how long it will take for Gitmo to be disbanded, but look at what he /did/ bring in - Obamacare, the repeal of DADT, saving the US car industry and the lowest public spending in US presidential history.
And he finally delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, effectively cutting the head off al-Qaeda and providing closure to the families of thousands of his victims - something Bush very deliberately and conspicuously failed to do, because he had no wish to get rid of such a convenient and useful CIA-trained pawn.
He's made your country rich today. Vote him in along with a Democratic Congress that will back him up so he, or his Democratic successor in 2016, can close down Gitmo and the DHS and the TSA tomorrow.
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Date: 2012-10-19 04:42 pm (UTC)Maybe you should've paid more attention to his career and his campaign - he's always been a Centrist!
This year you have a choice between a Centrist who disappointed you because he wasn't the Progressive you hoped for when you elected him to lead the country, or person who will say and do anything to get into office, because he wants to be the boss of the whole damned country.
* "You" is the generic reader of this posting, and not necessarily the actual reader...