More Change We Can Believe In.

Once again Glenn Greenwald and the New York Times point out the fallacy about the promised change we were supposed to see under an Obama administration.  NYT condemns what it calls "Obama's cover-up"

There is also some buzz from around the progressive groups that Harry Reid's announcement that the Senate health care reform bill WILL include a public option with an opt-out provision for states might still be underminded by the White House's willingness to accept a trigger provision to get "bipartisan" support.  That means Obama is willing to let the obstructionist party block a public option for the sake of a few Republiecan votes.  I guess he feels the Democrats caving in to Republiecans is the kind of change we need.



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Softening the tone will now get you a Nobel Peace Prize.

I know, I know, compared with George W. Bush, many would truly like to see Barack Obama succeed despite of the current evidence that he will do little to roll back the trashing of the US Constitution, protect civil liberties, provide his own countrymen with health care and curb the use of the US military-industrial complex to kill innocent civilians, but this has to be a page straight from Orwell's 1984 under the heading of war is peace.

Obama awared Nobel Peace Prize for 2009!  as Democracy Now reports it.

My reaction is similar to Glenn Greenwald's but he states it much more eloquently.

If this doesn't make a sham and a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize, what will?  If they wanted to make an ironic statement to satirize the US regarding its claim to be a peace-loving nation, they should have given the prize to George W. Bush.

Peace out (the window)
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