Unlike most new presidents, Obama seems to be doing just as poorly on the international front as he is on the domestic front. Oslo (Nobel Prize) and Copenhagen (Environment Conference) were both disastrous in terms of public relations, if nothing else. On the home front, the health care bill seems to be mired again, unemployment is increasing, prices are rising, terrorism - or allegation of terrorism - is once again a daily occurrence, and ordinary civil liberties are set to
erode further.
Instead of Barack Obama, we might as well call him Bush Obama. That's "Bush" on two counts - historical and semantic.
First, Obama's key economic and military advisers and hence his policies in those areas are little different from that of his predecessor, George Walker Bush. And, though Obama speaks more coherently than his predecessor, the content of his speeches is comparably inane and his conduct with others is comparably tactless.
Second, Obama's performance is indeed bush, that is, "falling below acceptable standards" and "unprofessional". Little wonder that the majority of Americans now disapprove of their president's performance.
At the rate with which Obama's approval ratings have been sinking, he is soon likely to make Bush look good. In that case, I may have to find a new moniker for the man.
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"and ordinary civil liberties are set to erode further"
As predicted...
U.S. lowers threshold for inclusion on no-fly lists
By Elise Labott, CNN
January 5, 2010 9:16 p.m. EST
Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government has lowered the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked, senior State Department officials tell CNN.
And now fighter jets scramble to escort a diverted commercial flight after a passenger refuses to leave the restroom. What comes next - a time limit for going to the toilet?
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