Friday, May 15, 2009

Another Obama Flip Flop

There seems to be an interesting pattern developing here. During the bright lights of the campaign and the first 100 days in office Barack Obama makes bold claims about things he is going to change in Washington or failed policies from the Bush Administration that he is going to eliminate. However once things die down and he thinks things through a bit he changes his mind. It happened a few months ago when Obama after promising to "rid Washington of special interest lobbyists" during the campaign and promising to punish any AIG executive that collected a bonus (remember the proposed 90% tax on the bonuses?) changed his tune after he recieved pressure from.....Insurance industry lobbyists claiming that he didn't want to unfairly punish those that really deserved a bonus.
It happened the other day when after weeks of playing partisan politics and grandstanding to release photos of alleged torture he changed his mind after finally realizing what most intelligent thinking Americans realized all along...that release of the photos would do more harm than good to America and it's troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally it appears he is about to do it again. After months of campaigning and talking about the failure of military tribunals during the Bush Administration (he actually suspended the tribunals during his first week in office saying they were a failure when it came to trying terror suspects) it was announced that he is going to indeed RESUME the military tribunal system! Now some on the left are saying that this is an example of how our new President thinks things through and isn't afraid to admit when he makes a mistake. I'm wondering...is that it or is it the fact that he is in over his head and doesn't really have a plan at all? Makes you wonder doesn't it? And that's what shim sez...

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