Our boy had Monday off from school for some reason so we took advantage of that to get some extra work in our construction project. Today not much grabbed me until now, but I thought these two might be of interest to my reader(s)…
A Rare Look at Why The Government Won’t Fight Wall Street
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-rare-look-at-why-the-government-wont-fight-wall-street-20120918
Matt does a bit of a book review that looks at why there was so much inaction after Wall Street more or less destroyed the world economy (and got incredibly richer to boot). Pretty sad reading even just Matt’s comments, I don’t envision reading the book myself.
Unlike Afghan leaders, Obama fights for power of indefinite military detention
Obama lawyers file a breathless, angry appeal against the court ruling that invalidated the NDAA’s chilling 2011 detention law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/18/obama-appeals-ndaa-detention-law
If I thought there was any non-zero chance that Romney would reverse even a portion of the Bush/Cheney/Obama attacks on our Constitution I would vote for him as many times as I could. However, I am totally convinced that the Bush/Cheney/Obama shredding of the Constitution would continue unabated under Romney, so, being totally convinced that he will continue to gut what is left of the middle class in wholesale preference for the oligarchy (not that I doubt Obama will do some of this, just somewhat less so; it sure would be nice to have ‘none of the above’ as an option!), I remain convinced that Obama is the lesser evil. However, as Glenn’s article should make quite clear, Obama is very evil and is _clearly_ worse (and I never thought I would say this) than Bush/Cheney.
So sad that our country has come to this. I try to cling to fantasies that the pendulum will swing back, but, particularly after reading Matt’s article, I have a lot of trouble believing it.
It never ceases to amaze me that one will choose a known evil over a suspected or perceived evil. Clearly, there’s something else at work.