QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I still like Obama, in a lot of ways. Having a president with less ability to inspire public confidence at a time like this, with our economy in such a death spiral, would be a disaster; God knows where we’d be right now with a McCain or a Mike Huckabee at the helm. But this guy has to show some stones somewhere along the line. He has to just forget the DC game and just take a clear stand on an issue like this sometime. He’s kind of running out of time to rescue his all-important first impression.”
Matt Taibbi on Obama’s failure to live up to earlier promises to close Guantanamo with his continuation of the Bush policies of rendition and imprisonment without due process in spite of having repeatedly stated his intention to stop those practices.
And you can say exactly the same thing about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.