The Three Rules Of Hope, Change And Plunder

clipped from www.qando.net Michale Barone, observing the Obama presidency as it unfolds, has penned his own “Three Rules of Obama”. Rule one: First, Obama likes to execute long-range strategies but suffers from cognitive dissonance when new facts render them inappropriate. Barone cites Obama’s long range strategy of conciliatory diplomacy with the likes of Iran and North Korea being “undercut by North Korea’s missile launches and demonstrations in Iran against the mullah regime’s apparent election fraud.” Second, he does not seem to care much about the details of policy. The “closing” of Guantanamo is perhaps the perfect example. Obviously politically satisfying at the time it was announced, its execution has been an absolute fiasco. None of the underlying problems of closing the prison had apparently been researched or considered when the promise was made. Third, he does business Chicago-style. “Transparency” and “openness” are now just a words Hope and change.