Hypocrisy

(post by Steve)

Hypocrisy on news media is abundant. After stomaching a few CNN videos, the hypocrisy was so thick I felt like I should take a shower to clean it off of me. In the first video, I watched these same class of liberals--disguised as objective news analysts--tar and feather any guest who dare critique Obama in any way. For eight years, these Bush-haters wanted anything but for Bush or "his war" to succeed. (This is normally the part where cowardly journalists plug in a caveat saying they didn't agree with all of Bush's policies in order to gain legitimacy to critique Obama. For whatever reason, anyone critiquing Obama must separate themselves from Bush. I'm not going to do it. I like Bush and agree with many of his policies.) One girl on campus wore a T-shirt with slash across Bush's picture with the words "Bush is not my President" written at the bottom. Just as Bush was her President, Obama is mine. Just as she, through her own judgment, despised Bush, I too can put on my political lenses to scrutinize Obama. In short, rather than acting self-righteously and pretending that the last eight years of constant obstructionism didn't occur, Bush-haters need to man-up and swallow a taste of their own medicine. Speaking of short, liberals' memories must be short because it was only two and a half days ago when they booed President Bush off the inaugural stage, while simultaneously harrying any Obama-critic, calling them anti-American.

With that said, I can certainly acknowledge that Barack Obama is my President. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But, already, he has signed executive orders that further an agenda I happen to disagree with. First, he started the process to close down Gitmo, which is the prison that holds enemy combatants to the United States. Where are you going to put these terrorists, President Obama? If you put them in the states, they gain all the rights that a citizen of the U.S. possesses. Even the terrorists prefer Gitmo over the U.S. The federal government would have to place each one of them in solitary confinement, otherwise these guys would not last a day among the convicts (after second thought, not a bad idea). In Gitmo, they live outdoors, play sports, watch TV, read and pray together, and socialize amongst each other. All of these "luxuries" would be eliminated in solitary confinement in a federal penitentiary. You can't return them to their native countries. Even their own countries don't want them. They are a danger to their own society. So where are these prisoners really going in a year? To some other island, in a similar prison, that requires more U.S. tax dollars, all because Obama needs to appease his democratic cohorts.

In another executive order, Obama removed the bans on U.S. funding to foreign programs that support and perform abortions. This just makes it easier for people to take the lives (kill) fetuses, even after they've began kicking in the womb.

I may disagree with certain policies that Obama implements, but I am not ignorant to the fact that he's my President. I'm no less American because I question his ideology or execution. I would have thought that after eight years of liberals whining about being called unpatriotic (because they ultimately sought out U.S. defeat in Iraq), they would have realized what was coming.