Obama Is Bush Redux [$ Update]

Where are the “What Obama Really Meant” people now?

Off Topic but Important:“I Am One Of Them”
Obama made an address to the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, Turkey. Al-Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, wrote: “This was the address we had all been waiting for, it hit all the right notes.”
“He talked about the contribution of the Islamic faith in the life of American Muslims and then he personalised that message by saying ‘I know because I am one of them.’ It was a message that reached out to many today” UPDATE:Al-Jazeera has since removed this section from the story sometime between the time they published it and now –

Not surprising. These people got themselves convinced that Bush & Co were some kind of power-mad dictators, and only implemented these plans b/c they were evil. These people only considered one side of the issue– the one they wanted to believe.

When Obama, or anyone else got into the office and saw the justifications, the legallities, etc. I always predicted they’d continue many of these policies.

As I have said in previous posts, Obama wanted to BECOME President. He didn’t want to BE president. It reminds me of the young women I grew up with who wanted to GET married not necessarily BE married.

To quote his predecessor: “It’s hard work”. I think Barry realized that he was required to actually work…hard.

Obama is already bored with being president. Now he wants the whole wide world to love him and applaud him.

I think he will be too exhausted and bored to finish out his term. Maybe he needs to retreat to Bali while Flag Dancer ghost writes another book for him.

I haven’t noticed any commercials for Obama memorabilia lately. Has the market been saturated?

I think many uninformed voters, desperate for a change from the Bush-Cheney years, were highly susceptible to the faux-campaign promises that Obama-Axelrod offered.

It was showmanship ratched up to the 10th degree. Add to that, we can repair our racial history and wounds by electing a black man, who talks about hope and change and makes the public feel good, and then people, primarily the young and gullible, swooned. Add a gazillion bucks from high-powered supporters, strong-arm tactics behind the scenes, throw in some election fraud but keep that music pumping, the dream swirling and the MSM writing those choir pieces.

And this is what we get.

I read a statement the other day by a student in Prague, who heard Obama speak. He said Obama’s words were beautiful, but that he knew [from his own experience] that the world’s enemies, the ones that Obama was eager to reach across the table to were murderous thugs.

This is not reality-based. And having a smooth-talking actor in the WH is dangerous.

The real pity is that we had an authentic alternative in Hillary Clinton. We had a leader in John McCain. What we settled for was The Great Pretender. And now, we’re all going to pay the price.

I’m not impressed that “Democracy Now” is finally waking up….or am I confident they will remain so. Amy Goodman is way too smart not to have known exactly what Barry was and is . Yet they were purple with the kool-aid for over a year. Ugh

On a related topic, Maureen Dowd had a column in the NYTimes toay and it seems she’s starting to fully wake up more to what a fraud Obambi is, even if she’s still being a bit ’sucky’ to maintain access to sources in his admin. As the liberal press begins to wake up more to the fact that Obambi is an intellectual mediocrity they’ll start to turn on him. Their intellectual realization that they’ve been had will creep into their writing.

On a related topic, Maureen Dowd had a column in the NYTimes today and it seems she’s starting to fully wake up more to what a fraud Obambi is, even if she’s still being a bit ’sucky’ to maintain access to sources in his admin. As the liberal press begins to wake up more to the fact that Obambi is an intellectual mediocrity they’ll start to turn on him. Their intellectual realization that they’ve been had will creep into their writing.

Another thing we knew he would be doing.

…as some tried to be “hopeful”, we knew his speeches and claims, leaving open ends, only meant this was what he would be DOING.

You only have to pay attention to what Weary Barry has consistently said, then done, to know what he is made of and what he will do.

He confirmed it again when he voted to give telecomm immunity, after grandstanding and claiming he would FILIBUSTER any attempts for immunity. Sorry, but this makes me want to laugh at his supporters. How much proof do they need to smack them in the face while he’s telling them to bend over. This takes the word NAIVE to an entire new level.

So when Mr. Obama finally self combusts like a character in a Monty Python sketch, what will happen next? Then we’re going to get Biden? Biden, Biden, Bueller, Bueller? Cry the beloved country, indeed. How many have to succumb to nervous exhaustion before we get Hillary?

UPDATE: Writer Jeremy Scahill, who wrote the bestseller on Blackwater, told Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman on April 2nd that:

… I’m starting to call a series of pieces I’m doing “Operation Rebranded,” because what we’re seeing unfold with the Obama administration’s foreign policy is basically continuing many of the worst parts of Bush’s foreign policy and sort of repackaging these policies.

YEP!!!

I certainly hope your assessment is accurate.

I repeat, wasn’t it Jeremy Scahill who said on CSpan that “we might disagree with Obama on some issues, but the important thing is to focus on the hope he inspires” (quote paraphrased here). I guess Jeremy is singing another tune now.

With regard to some on the Left waking up — I heard Bill Maher was critical of Obama on his show two weeks ago. I don’t know what he said (I heard about it on a blog post), but wonder if Bill is beginning to realize what we all have deduced about Obama from the outset — that BO is GWB rebranded and a fraud.

From TGW soon after the FISA vote:

“Barack Obama joined every Senate Republican (and every House Republican other than one) by voting in favor of it, while his now-vanquished primary rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, voted against it. John McCain wasn’t present for any of the votes, but shared Obama’s support for the bill. The bill will now be sent to an extremely happy George Bush, who already announced that he enthusiastically supports it, and he will sign it into law very shortly.”

MyDD has Hillary’s full statement and the FISA vote tally. Here’s an excerpt:

“There is little disagreement that the legislation effectively grants retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies. In my judgment, immunity under these circumstances has the practical effect of shutting down a critical avenue for holding the administration accountable for its conduct. It is precisely why I have supported efforts in the Senate to strip the bill of these provisions, both today and during previous debates on this subject. Unfortunately, these efforts have been unsuccessful.

What is more, even as we considered this legislation, the administration refused to allow the overwhelming majority of Senators to examine the warrantless wiretapping program. This made it exceedingly difficult for those Senators who are not on the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees to assess the need for the operational details of the legislation, and whether greater protections are necessary. The same can be said for an assessment of the telecom immunity provisions. On an issue of such tremendous importance to our citizens - and in particular to New Yorkers - all Senators should have been entitled to receive briefings that would have enabled them to make an informed decision about the merits of this legislation. I cannot support this legislation when we know neither the nature of the surveillance activities authorized nor the role played by telecommunications companies granted immunity.

Congress must vigorously check and balance the president even in the face of dangerous enemies and at a time of war. That is what sets us apart. And that is what is vital to ensuring that any tool designed to protect us is used - and used within the law - for that purpose and that purpose alone. I believe my responsibility requires that I vote against this compromise, and I will continue to pursue reforms that will improve our ability to collect intelligence in our efforts to combat terror and to oversee that authority in Congress.”

I am guessing that most people in the MSM, knowing the short memory spans of most Americans, will wait until they think most people don’t remeber how they fawned over our new “Messiah.” They will never, never admit how duped they were. They will pretend there was no way to predict how O would turn out, that they had nothing to do with him being in office.

And the public will say, “O.K., then we couldn’t have known either.”

Makes me sick!