UPDATED – Obama: Guantanamo Not Closing Anytime Soon
Idealism hits the hard wall of reality: “It Is More Difficult Than I Think a Lot of People Realize”.
The recent electoral victory must be a strange one for the Left. So many of their hopes and dreams crushed so quickly. This transition must feel to them like opening presents on a Christmas morning and realizing Santa brought them clothes instead of toys.
H/T: Instapundit
UPDATE: RELATED – No abject disillusionment at Newsweek, where it seems that the Bush-Cheney ways will be OK, as long as it’s Obama implementing them. Or is it just media battlespace preparation?
was elected partly to cleanse the temple of the Bush-Cheney stain, and in his campaign speeches he promised to reverse Cheney’s efforts to seize power for the White House in the war on terror.
It may not be so simple…The flaw of the Bush-Cheney administration may have been less in what it did than in the way it did it—flaunting executive power, ignoring Congress, showing scorn for anyone who waved the banner of civil liberties. Arguably, there has been an overreaction to the alleged arrogance and heedlessness of Bush and Cheney.
What do you know? The bugaboo of the Unitary Executive (which isn’t an unconstitutional interpretation of the Executive Power to begin with) wasn’t the problem. It was just a matter of style! Too arrogant, too heedless.
It’s the magic of double standards: quick and convenient!
