What would Jesus Do? All Proclaimed Messiahs Pay Attention

Hubris.
For years we have been hearing from the mainstream media about the unabashed hubris of President Bush. How his actions showed his arrogance and total disregard for bi-partisanship, cooperation, and the intelligence of the American people. This week, during a session with Republicans on Capitol Hill, President Obama reportedly responded to GOP questioning of his stimulus package (you know, the part where people who don’t pay any taxes get more money back from the government) with:

“I won. I will trump you on that.”

If this isn’t the epitome of arrogance, I don’t know what is—where is Liberal media on this one?

Promises, Shmomises.
President Obama made a pledge that no lobbyists would be allowed to work for his administration in departments they once lobbied and that they would not be allowed to lobby his administration if they left to go back to their lobbying firms. Well, that lasted until the first official needed a waiver from that rule. Bill Lynn, a Defense Department nominee has already been granted a waiver. Way to stick to your guns and “change" the face of politics, Mr. President. Of course, this does go along with the Liberal thinking that there are no such things as steadfast rules…just guidelines.

“Transparency—Could you use that in a sentence, please?”
Earlier in the week President Obama visited the White House Press Room. While on his visit, he was asked a question about the aforementioned Mr. Lynn. The President scorned the reporter for daring to ask him a tough question. Had it not been for one of the media acolytes jumping in and saying “I just want to say it one more time: Mr. President.”, President Obama may have beat the reporter from Politico.

The media is also apparently all in a twist over not being given access to the "re-swearing-in" of Mr. Obama by Justice Roberts that took place in the White House. It seems as though Mr. Obama and his administration are trying to strictly control the flow of information the press has access too—and that’s the opinion of the same press that was in his back pocket throughout the campaign! If transparency really is the goal, Comrade Obama, why stifle the press. After all they should be reporting on every questionable thing your administration does…just like they did with “W”.

Do you take us for idiots?.…Wait, don’t answer that.
One press conference and I can already tell that Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, and the entire Obama Administration is following the cue of the Clinton Administration: the American people are idiots; if you speak, they will believe.

In talking about President Obama’s executive order to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and the mandate that the Army Field Manual be used as a guideline for interrogation, Gibbs said, “We've made our security stronger… the steps that were taken today ensure and enhance the security of the American people.”

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

If you closed Guantanamo because you believed it was morally wrong, fine. Tell us that.
If you limited interrogation techniques to those from the Army Field Manual because you feel that water boarding and sleep depravation are wrong, fine. Tell us that.

Then there is the tired argument that these moves will protect our troops, make it safer for them if they are captured. When in history has that ever proven to have been true. America has always treated its prisoners of combat with at least a modicum of decency; has that ever been returned by our enemies? Think of the images of our soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and videos of Americans being executed on TV by Muslim extremists. Ask John McCain if American treatment of POWs in Vietnam equated to fair treatment at the Hanoi Hilton. Did the Nazis and Japanese return the generosity we showed toward their POWs? Even in our own Civil War places like Andersonville Prison in Georgia were hell holes for US troops who were captured. In so much as Liberals would have no intention of giving me and other Conservatives the same right to make moral judgments that I grant President Obama, our enemies have absolutely no intention of treating Americans nicely just because we are treating their captured nicely. (And honestly, my college dorm room was smaller than those cells at Gitmo). If, however, you believe this. Fine. Tell us that is the reason.

But, don’t feed us some line about these moves improving our security. Make no mistake about it, THEY DIDN’T. I respect the moral objections Mr. Obama has to these things…I don’t agree, but I respect. And, as President, if his moral objections demand that he make these moves, then so be it. These executive orders significantly hamstrung our ability to secure America…to that there is no doubt.

Don’t lie to us St. Barack…Jesus wouldn’t do that.