So This is Hope and Change?

I'm starting to realize that it would take me all day every day to document all the ways in which I'm 180 degrees out of phase with Barack Hussein Obama. I don't have that kind of time. But occassionally I run across something that is just too good to pass-up. This video is one of them. Its a perfect example of the hypocrisy of liberals who are doing everything in their power to go "green" and save Mother Earth. Apparently that didn't apply to the Savior's inauguration.





This article points out a few other ways in which Obama's pre-election promises don't really jive with what he is doing now. Let's see, what else? How about Obama's new transparency he promised (other articles: #1, #2). And in related transparency news, the Clinton's everyone.

One of Obama's first executive orders this week was to shut down Guantanamo within one year. Look, I understand that people are getting tired of the War on Terrorism. We are a country full of weak kneed individuals who think we should all be able to "just get along." That sounds great and all, but unfortunately that's not reality. The terrorists currently sitting in Guantanamo aren't innocent, let's not forget that. We didn't just randomly go and take people out of their homes and put them in jail. These guys were plucked off the battlefield trying to kill American soldiers. And now people want these terrorists tried in an American court. Again, that sounds nice, but need I remind you of the OJ Simpson trial? Our court systems are no longer about "justice", they are about who has the best set of lawyers. And if you think letting these terrorists loose is a good idea you should rethink your strategy since they'll most likely go right back to killing Americans.

And speaking of the executive order, it appears he doesn't even know what's in the order. Here's a transcript from Rush:

RUSH:Here, folks, if you haven't it heard I'm sorry to belabor this, grab sound bite 31. This sound bite is what has prevented me from getting to any other sound bites today. I think I'm the only one here who has caught this. I'm sure there will be others as the day goes on. This is Barack Obama, this is the president of the United States announcing his -- capital H, capital I, capital S -- his executive order this morning.

OBAMA: In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then provide, uh, the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than, uh, one year from now. We will be... Uhhh.... Ummm.... Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we're going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we're doing?

CRAIG: We'll set up a process!

OBAMA: We will be setting up a process, uh, whereby this is going to be taking place.

RUSH: What am I supposed to do here? Am I supposed to pretend this isn't happening, "Gee, I hope he figures this out and succeeds"? He's reading his own executive order, and in the middle of it he stops to ask his lawyer, Greg Craig, who represented Castro and the father of Elian Gonzalez in Cuba, (doing Obama impression) "Greg, uh, how we gonna handle the detainees here, what are we going to do?" "Oh, a process is going to be worked out," and then Obama repeats it as though nobody heard what Craig said. "We'll have a process, process going to be worked out." The second executive order was basically the process, which was a "we don't have a clue" executive order. Well, you know, I think they probably think Greg Craig is so smart he could probably be Treasury secretary, and he's paid his taxes. Look, play 32. It happened again. It happened again in the next sound bite with the next executive order. What am I supposed to do here?

OBAMA: What we're doing here is to set up a special interagency task force on detainee disposition. They are going to provide me with information in terms of how we are able to deal in the disposition of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries, who could pose a serious danger to the United States, uh, but we cannot try because of various problems related to evidence, uh, in a Article 3 court. So this task force is going to provide us with, uh, a series of recommendations on that. Is that correct, Greg?

CRAIG: That's right. And detainee policy going forward.

OBAMA: And detainee policy going forward so that we don't find ourselves in these kinds of situations, uh, in the future.

CRAIG: And there is clear guidance for the military as well.

OBAMA: And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of how to deal with it.

RUSH: I'm speechless. I'm just dumbfounded. Two executive orders in a row, he doesn't know what's in them, gotta turn to Craig Greg. Craig tells him and Obama repeats it as though nobody can hear it. See, I thought Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. He's supposed to be smarter than Greg Craig. He taught constitutional law up there at the University of Chicago, right next door to Bill Ayers. Yeah, you would think he'd be pretty good at this legal stuff. He's an author. He wrote his own books. Ahem. He didn't know what was in at least two of his executive orders today. What am I supposed to do? Am I not supposed to mention this? "Give him a chance, Rush. Wait 'til he really screws up. Give him a chance. We all want the country to succeed." Well, Obama's policies succeeding do not mean success for the country, and that's the bottom line. I want Obama's policies to fail. That will equal success for the country. So, see, the process here, the process was always the issue, so they say they're going to shut Guantanamo in a year, and they don't tell us the process, cause they don't have a plan!