Barack Obama delivered his long awaited address on Afghanistan to a room of West Point cadets (most awake, a few asleep). The president has an amazing ability to speak endlessly while saying nothing. So, finding meaning in 35-minutes of meaningless claptrap is a difficult task. Practically, Obama announced the introduction of 30,000 new U.S. troops into Afghanistan to bring the total near 100,000. Theoretically, Obama channelled George W. Bush's second inaugural address in claiming that we fight for the freedom of other people, we defend our own freedom. It was a fallacy when George W. Bush said it. It's still a fallacy now that Barack Obama mouths the platitudes, and fights the wars, of his predecessor.

He is so totally committed and decisively sure that we'll win (what, I don't know!?) in Afghanistan, that he's already set a date to bring the troops home.

This is outrageous. And disgusting that he will throw more of our young people into a fight in which they are supported half-heartedly by a government that won't allow for them to win and by people who use them as political props. Especially when if we were really committed to winning, we could nuke the place and be done with it.

There is a big difference, I believe, between BHO and GW: Obama holds our country and the troops in contempt, Bush did neither.

According to Greenwald, he never mentioned freedom for Afghans or human rights during the speech. I watched it, but I kept slipping into daydreams because it was so incredibly vapid. Perhaps he did.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/02/obama/index.html

I had to laugh what passes for the rookie Obama’s ‘Job Summit’.

Get a bunch of academics, business and union ‘leaders’ in a room, break them up into small groups and finish up with a question and answer period. LOL!.

So, now the Community Organizer in Chief wants to run the country like a college classroom?

Beeeautiful!