Fox News Gives Wesleyan a Shout

chrisrb
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:54:57 +0000

Obama was/is a great speech maker, and his Wesleyan address was a classic example.

Too bad there was so little beef beneath the bun. IF ONLY Obama believed in the ideal of public service and balance in “public vs. private sector[s].”

Had this been so, future-president Obama would have gone on to keep SOME of his promises of “hope and change:” public option for health insurance, protecting the middle class, actively support of unions, transparency, closing Gitmo, Net Neutrality, accountability for banksters and members of the Bush Crime Family who got off scott free, protection of the most basic civil liberties (e.g. habeas corpus), etc., etc.

If only we’d known “hope and change” was only code for Democrats’ weak-kneed, obsessive “cave-cave-caving” to the worst elements of conservative politics and policy.

Of course, now, unfortunately, Obama himself has chosen to participate in and even expand many of the criminal policies and practices of the Bush administration.

Such great potential. Such awful disappointment.

I guess that’s what happens when you get elected president and go up against a group that believes compromising is evil when you yourself believe that NOT compromising is evil: they win, you lose, and we the people just get screwed.

Or maybe that’s just what happens when a candidate does a better than average job of fooling the public during campaign season.

Let’s just hope that Obama wasn’t lying yet again when he said he was committed to protecting federal student loans at affordable rates and reasonable levels of access.

We’ll know the truth in very short order.