| Subject | G.W. Bush | B.H. Obama |
|---|---|---|
| Tax breaks for the stupendously wealthy | Yes | Yes |
| Withdrawal date for Iraq | Dec 31, 2011 | Maybe Later |
| Occupation of Afghanistan | Indefinite | Indefinite |
| Airstrikes in Pakistan | 42 times | About 200 times |
| Airstrikes in Yemen | Maybe once in 2002 | Yes |
| Airstrikes in Somalia | Yes | Probably |
| Illegal detentions in Guantanamo Bay | Started it | Yes |
| Illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens | Yes | Voted for it |
| High-level investigation of war crimes | Haha, no | We don’t want to look back |
| Says we don’t torture | Not torture, honest | Not any more, honest |
| Bombing Libya | Renewed diplomacy | Dropping bombs like your moms |
| Can pronounce “nuclear” | Nuke-u-ler | Nuclear |
I write this largely because of my disappointment in Mr. Obama’s speech yesterday. This man used to teach constitutional law, and now seems to think that Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution can be delegated indefinitely and for whatever whimsical purposed the president likes, that the 4th and 6th Amendments simply do not apply to anybody, and that Article 4 doesn’t make treaties like the Geneva Accords legally binding upon the U.S. government.
Miss you yet, George? I hardly noticed you were gone.
I am too lazy to pull up my comments from the election year, but it feels great to be right. I wish someone made a video of tears rolling back into Oprah’s eyes. As a matter of fact I just might.
It’s a shame the way things have turned out. I wish it had been different, I really do. Unfortunately, it was all to clear three years ago that things wouldn’t be different.
There are a number of lesser issues on which I think Obama has acquitted himself better than McCain probably would have, but the things I listed here are orders of magnitude more serious than the Credit Card Bill of Rights or creating on Office on Urban Policy.