Obama is Here- We are Saved At Last

There's an excellent opinion column by Doroty Rabinowitz about Mr. Obama's moralizing tendencies delivered, two days after being elected, "on his most celebrated and ardently pledged campaign promise" new tough limitations on the questioning of terror suspects and "an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the freezing of all detainee prosecutions"...

Mr. Obama I guess thinks himself the anointed one who has come to take us to the promised land. He has the nerve to equate Guantanamo to Auschwitz! One is a place where prisoners are given plenty of food, clean clothing, time outside for good behavior and the certainty that they won't die of starvation, malnutrition, disease or murder versus Auschwitz (I guess I don't have to describe what that is - or do I? I guess we should all remember...Obama is just a politician and a socialist one at that. No there is no saving ourselves with this man or from this man. Quite the opposite if you really look at his "stimulus plan". If you think it's bad now what do you think it's going to be like 4 years from now?

"...Mr. Obama, of course, isn't likely to be deterred by an insurrection from a military court judge. His view of America's new position in the world -- following the announcement of those orders -- was amply clear, its tone familiar. America had entered upon a new day -- we once were lost and now we're found, a people restored to the paths of principle and honor. Hillary Clinton, speaking as secretary of state, would a few days later add her voice to the general thanksgiving for our rebirth, declaring, "There is a great exhalation of breath going on in the world."

".leader now in the White House is in every respect the person he seemed on the campaign trail: a man of immense moral certitude, prone to an abstract idealism, and pronouncements that range between the rational and the otherworldly.

"...It's impossible to know what kind of history Mr. Obama has been reading but this much at least is true -- the generation he describes knew the importance of sturdy alliances all right. There was that one, for instance, between the American leader, Franklin Roosevelt, and the British, Winston Churchill. Both of them, along with their countrymen, were driven by one enduring conviction -- that fascism should be eradicated from the face of the earth and a total war of destruction waged on Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany until their surrender. It would be hard to find, in their pursuit of that purpose, any hint of that tempering quality of humility and restraint. Not that it isn't entertaining to imagine Roosevelt extending the hand of friendship and conciliation to Hirohito, or Churchill proposing to raise a glass and talk things over with Hitler." (READ)