Nothing can be rolled out of this White House without a slogan. Today’s slogan is Surge and Accelerate. I know that the surge stands for more troops. I’m not sure what the accelerate stands for? Warp speed? Fast withdrawal? I’m not sure. All I know is that this White House has been a disaster. I can’t think of one major policy that has worked for the American people. I’m almost sure that this will be more of the same.
Keith Olbermann returns on fire. He is right. Surge is not going to work. We tried a “surge” with Together Forward. That was an increase in the number of troops in Baghdad. It failed.
Could General Casey be booted because he has been a good soldier under a bad Secretary of Defense?
From WaPo:
Long before the national media spotlight began to shine on every twist and turn of his life’s journey, Barack Obama had this to say about himself: “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind.”
The Democratic senator from Illinois and likely presidential candidate offered the confession in a memoir written 11 years ago, not long after he graduated from law school and well before he contemplated life on the national stage. At the time, 20,000 copies were printed and the book seemed destined for the remainders stacks.
Today, Obama, 45, is near the top of polls on potential Democratic presidential contenders, and “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” has regularly been on the bestseller lists, with 800,000 copies in print. Taken along with his latest bestseller, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,” Obama has become a genuine publishing phenomenon.
Obama’s revelations were not an issue during his Senate campaign two years ago. But now his open narrative of early, bad choices, including drug use starting in high school and ending in college, as well as his tortured search for racial identity, are sure to receive new scrutiny. (more…)
Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
