August 30, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I suggested that President Obama’s superhero name should be “Opposite Man” because nearly everything he’s done since his inauguration has been, not just wrong, but the opposite of what should have been done. He’s at it again.
Two things the administration is doing are kind of two sides of the same coin, demonstrating how it’s possible to do the opposite of what needs to be done, SQUARED. The twofer has to do with the War on Terror. Er, I should have said War on (whatever they call it now).
We all know that Obama is trying to keep his campaign promise to free the terror detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. It’s turning out to be more difficult than it was to promise. Of course, he should be doing the opposite; that is following though on the military tribunals.
The other side of this coin developed this week, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would be appointing a special counsel to investigate those lawyers and CIA agents who decided to press the detainees to reveal Al Quaeda’s plans to murder all of us. Again, these people prevented several more 9/11 attacks from being carried out. They should get medals, not investigations with the accompanying hundreds of thousands in legal bills and defamation by the press.
So that’s a double opposite. But there was yet another this week. It was announced that Obama was allowing the voucher program of the Washington, D.C. public schools to expire, to appease the teachers union. This program has been widely praised by people at all points of the political spectrum as giving opportunity to hundreds of DC’s poorest children to attend better schools who otherwise would be doomed to attend the worst public schools in the country.
So, naturally Opposite Man is not continuing the program even while his own children attend the most exclusive private school in town. Some government employee might not be needed if too many children try to have a better life by going to a private school.
