Posted by
Christopher Van on Monday, December 01, 2008 3:09:43 PM
So where is all this change that we heard so much about? Didn’t the messiah promise to end politics as usual? If I recall correctly, he was going to part the sea, walk on the water and build an ark that could withstand the Wall Street tsunami as it crashed ashore.
Perhaps the change was Rahm Emanuel. Maybe it was Reich, Rubin or Podesta. Perhaps it is Hillary Clinton, our new Secretary of State. I’m beginning to think that the only Clintonite not present in the Obama cabinet is Monica Lewinsky. But hey, at least Michele can once again be proud as she dons the famous blue dress. Just make sure to keep Bill away.
Yes, this is the change that we can count on. More of the same. The same lies, the same deceipt and the same failed policies. For you liberals out there, my guess is that the Obama strategy on Iraq and Afghanistan is going to be EXACTLY the same as W’s. Want proof, Bush appointee Robert Gates has accepted an invitation to stay on serving as Secretary of Defense. You see, now that it is Obama's war surrender is no longer an option. I wonder when it became fashionable to be a hypocrite?
At least those liberals who wanted change may now be starting to regret their vote. They listened to the soaring rhetoric and for a while actually thought that the messiah could turn water into wine only to discover that he turned it into four more years of a Clinton administration. And here we thought that the silver lining of an Obama victory marked the end of the Clinton regime.
No such luck. In fact, if Bill Clinton wasn’t disbarred he’d be a shoe in for the Supreme Court. My guess is Hillary wants him as far away from the beltway as possible, so look for an ambassadorship to Thailand where the women are cheap and easy. Maybe Al Gore can take over the National Weather Service. At the rate Obama is appointing former Clintonistas, he’s going to run out of bodies soon. Maybe he can appoint Vince Foster in abstentia.
As predicted, there is no change. There will be no change. There was never a plan for any change. All in all, the whole change bit was just a lie to bait the young, the dumb and the uninformed into voting for an empty suit. Now that the suit got elected, he had to actually find people with enough experience to fill the void that will be in the Oval Office.
Then there was that whole hope thing. Well, that was a pipedream as well. The only thing that we have going now is politics as usual and considering the number of Clinton associates in the new White House this should be really interesting, really fast. The question is now when a scandal will erupt, but how many. Will they involve sex, drugs, mob connections or all of the above? Your guess is as good as mine, but the same money is on the latter.
Christopher Van