Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:25:16 PM
Jim Geraghty
first wrote that all of Barack Obama’s promises come with expiration
dates, and broken promises from politicians are nothing new, of
course. However, one usually expects politicians — especially those
running on hope and change — to either remain true to their
professed core values and the issues that fueled the most passion on
the campaign trail, or at least explain their change in the daylight.
Obama did neither, nor did he apologize to the man he besmirched
endlessly on the campaign trail while adopting the policy that Obama most demonized as a candidate.
Obama has essentially endorsed the detention policies of George Bush
without the courtesy of apologizing for slandering him over the last
two and a half years. Obama and his allies screeched endlessly about
indefinite detentions, and not just in Gitmo, either. They
specifically railed against the holding of terrorists without access to
civil courts in military detention facilities around the world,
specifically Bagram, but in general as well. Not even six months into
his term of office, Obama realized that Bush had it right all along.