Light posting the last couple of days while we’ve enjoyed the unusually mild weather in mid-Indiana from our wide front porch. But I couldn’t pass up an observation or two on the first overseas speeches by Obama the candidate.
First, he spoke at the Temple of Hercules in Amman. Today, he addressed “a huge crowd” at the Victory Column in Berlin.
Symbolic in more ways than he knows.
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OK, it’s not quite like that, but a court ruling that slipped under the noise of failing banks, a rallying stock market, and the All-Star Game this week has effectively granted the president the power to imprison civilians legally in the United States simply by declaring them enemy combatants.
That’s imprisoned indefinitely. As in forever.
The funny thing about the horizon is that no matter how far you travel, it’s still waaaaay off in the distance.
No matter what the president says about a timeline for withdrawing from Iraq, we’re not going anywhere. The United States has far too much money invested in oil infrastructure, huge new military bases, and a palatial embassy on the banks of the Tigris to turn the country over to somebody else, even the people who live there.
Keep that in mind, liberals, when President Obama takes over the job of decider-in-chief.
