Tag Archive 'Gitmo'

Random thoughts about Obama *UPDATED*

Obama made much of the fact that his father was an African immigrant from a small village with goats (or something like that).  Few people have made anything of the flip side of that little bit of bio, which is the fact that the first black president has no connection to America’s slave culture.  This [...]

The Obama fox trot begins

Forward and back he goes, depending on which way the focus group blows.  Before being elected, Obama promised to close Gitmo.  Then, with the reins of power almost in his hands, he panicked and backed off from the promise.   Then panic instantly set in again when his focus groups showed that his core constituencies [...]