No More Obama Posts... For Now

Keeping track of all of Obama's ridiculous policies, campaign policy betrayals and Bush-like decisions is just getting too much to handle.

Just in the past week:
- Obama plans to bring back military commissions system
- Obama plans infinite detention for prisoners on US soil without trial
- Obama does a 180, refuses to release more torture photots
- Obama makes absurd claims about healthcare that even healthcare executives refute

For the time being, I will defer to the following blogs about this subject:
http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
http://jonathanturley.org/

Obama administration doesn't actually think bailout fund accountability is a good idea

Obama and co. are engineering bailouts to the banks such that they can circumvent the limits that Congress puts on executive pay viz. these actions. From Dissenting Justice:

Perhaps Obama believes that "if" doling out trillions to the banks gets the economy (artificially) working again that people will forget that he is doing something that goes against his promises concerning transparency, accountability, and, ahem, change.

Obama administration doesn't actually think using state secrets privilege to hide torture practices is a bad idea

Pop quiz: if a president's justice department were to invoke the state secrets privilege from letting evidence be admitted into a case about torturing of potential terrorist suspects that the US government detained (and shipped off to other countries to be tortured, etc. etc.), which president would you associate that with?

a) Bush
b) Obama
c) All of the above

The correct answer is C
Looks like all that talk of transparency was all for naught. Will the American people ever really find out what horrors the government has been perpetrating for the past decade? Not while Obama is in office, it seems.

Obama administration doesn't actually believe infinite detention of enemy combatants is a bad idea

In a great post with a great title, Change = Same, Darren Lenard Hutchinson expertly shows that the change in detention policies viz. terrorism between the Bush and Obama administrations is a distinction without a difference. Sad, really, to see that a president that positioned himself as the anti-Bush to reveal himself as the second coming of Bush.