From yesterday's Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON - With a few strokes of his pen, President Obama charted a new path yesterday in the fight against terrorism, signing executive orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and to ban harsh interrogation tactics, such as waterboarding, that the Bush administration endorsed but that critics consider torture.
Now, let's not get too excited about this. Sure, it's great that he's done this, and it was absolutely necessary. But he still has a lot of work to do to prove himself worthy of the love that America has already poured all over him.
I hope I'm wrong about him. I really do. I just doubt it.
2 comments:
THIS ROLLER COASTER WE CALL LIFE
August 23, 2011
Well, so far so good
Well, I'm happy of course that the Obama administration was able to stop the Palestinian-Israeli war in 2009, and has since made the desert bloom as a land of milk and honey for both former enemies. And it's cool that Afghanistan and Pakistan have jointly built a monument to American friendship as a result of his efforts. Frankly, I never thought that I'd see the day that an American president was presented to the Duma by Mr. Putin to thunderous applause.
I was skeptical about Obama's health insurance plan, but have to admit that it's worked far better than I anticipated. And of course it's nice to see unemployment down to 3 percent and the Dow up to 15,000.
But he still has a lot of work to do to prove himself worthy of the love that America has already poured all over him.
I hope I'm wrong about him. I really do. I just doubt it.
Welllll ... reading this over, maybe my sarcasm WAS a little thick, although meant humorously. :-)
I do appreciate your acknowledgement that Obama hasn't totally screwed up in his first three days.
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