Obama's First Week in Office

I had thought this was my first blog post, 8 years ago, but it is not in the archive, so I am (re-)posting it.   

It is telling what Pres. Obama couldn’t wait to do in his first week in office.  His executive orders showed a clear valuing of terrorist quality of life over innocent life.  He committed to close Guantanamo (where objective observers report conditions better than US prisons) without a better plan (and where some released are back fighting), to take off the table rigorous interrogation techniques, to legitimize the use/destruction of human embryos, and support of abortion of human fetus measures. 

His actions speak louder than his rhetoric at the inauguration – that we would outlast/outlive the enemy.  Famous last words of Communism.  Outliving this enemy is not a sufficient goal – especially when those sympathetic to them already outnumber us, and are reproducing and indoctrinating much more rapidly than we eliminate the militant fundamentalists.  And articulate communication skills are not sufficient.  The KGB dosier on Ronald Reagan, the Great Communicator, said there was no difference between his words and his deeds.  And their former KGB chief admitted this ultimately provided the final leverage that brought down the Soviet Union. 

Obama talks tough to his domestic audience on terrorism, but completely sidesteps it in his first interview in office – with Al Arabiyah, and his first actions in office say something completely different.  He wants a full dialogue with an enemy that has sworn the destruction of ourselves and our closest ally.  What is there to dialogue – how sorry we are for fighting them, and why do they want to destroy us?  Or to negotiate – how painlessly and quickly they will destroy us?

He says the decision as to when life begins is “above my pay grade” to an evangelical audience during the campaign, but acts as if he is quite sure his first week in office.  He apparently needs a cut in pay grade.  There are glaring discrepancies between Obama’s words and deeds, and his deeds already are bleak.  The terrorists and their sympathizers are paying much more attention to his deeds than his inaugural rhetoric – as should we.  And those on the side of innocent life need to pay attention to his actions.

He and his Congressional cronies are all too anxious to pass a gargantuan bill that is wreaking of liberal pork and lean on stimulus.  He touted tax relief & bipartisanship in the campaign, but there was none of that in this package, even though some of his closest advisors were in agreement with the conservatives that the tax relief would be more of a stimulus, and at lower cost, than his “New Deal” type spending that will burden us and the next generation with debt for many years to come. 

I'm back to elevated doses of chocolate to muddle through.