Slow Burn

Well, Mr. Obama, it looks like you’re going to have some real ‘splainin’ to do.  Unemployment did in fact go up, up to 9.1.  Yikes.  Sucks for you.  Maybe.  Not really, I guess.

You know that crunch time draws near.  By the first of the year you want us out of Iraq.  So, if we are, we will be in two wars and this poor economic situation.  Sound familiar?  That means that in three years of your presidency we’ll have gotten nowhere.  You’re proving that you’re no different than your predecessor.  Now, that wasn’t your intent was it?

If you get tossed out, don’t worry about it.  I’ve got a way for you to save face.  In fact, I think that you may not even have to lie if you use this idea.  In your post-loss interviews, just tell America that when you went in you had every intention of changing things but that the “system” was just too strong for you and you succumbed.  Expose it for what it is.  That would be a refreshing change.

Another bullet point in the list of things that haven’t changed.  Mr. Obama has taken us to war.  Not only that, but it’s our third concurrent war and we’ve entered it for ambiguous reasons.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I’m not against war.  I wasn’t against Iraq or Afghanistan, it was explained to us why we went in there before we went in there.  But, I really don’t know if I’m for or against this war in Libya, because I don’t know why we’re in it.  Even after a TV appearance with a supposed explanation (more than a week after taking us to war)  I still don’t really know why Libya is so special.

I guess I can understand that we have “interests” that are at risk but what I really don’t understand are our “values” that are supposedly under attack.  So we go to war just anywhere in support of our ambiguous “values” being under attack?  Are our “values” under attack in other countries?  I am going to bet that even in the US there are people attacking our “values” – so do we declare war on our own people?  I want a definition of what these “values” are and I want an explanation of why we went to war in Libya over these “values”  and how they’re under attack.  In my mind I can see the spread of Communism being an attack on our values, and we went to war to stop the spread of Communism; I can understand that.  Is there something in Libya that is against our values that we are afraid will spread?  I want answers to these simple questions.  I don’t want ambiguity, generalizations and filibustering.

We were also told our involvement would be minimal.  Now I am hearing that the CIA may be afoot in Libya.  That doesn’t seem like minimal involvement to me.  Seems like it’s about to get much more involved.  Arms deals?  Regime overthrow?  Funding?  Let’s have some truth.  Let’s have some transparency, Mr. Obama.  After all, you promised us that.  Were all these Americans just chumps for believing in your change?

I’ll bet the sound of the crickets is all we’ll hear.

Mr. Obama just reinstated military commissions for prosecuting Gitmo prisoners.  So much for closing Gitmo.  Man, what’s happened to all those promises?  Sure hope that all those people who believed in all his change will hold him accountable.  How much more non-change or change-for-the-worse will the people ignore or accept?