Pres. BO's first week have taught something:
1) He loves telling people what they want to hear, specially the left wing base.
2) Please read the executive orders because there is usually something that wasn't disclosed in the public relations press conference.
Let's take the GITMO and "interrogation" executive orders:
"The Obama administration is making a great show of ending a series of Bush administration policies on the war on terror.
Guantanamo is to be closed.
Well, not right away, of course. (It seems those detainees are dangerous and there is no good place to put them right now.)
And enhanced interrogation techniques will be banned. Well, unless the President’s advisors report back that we really need them. (It seems that every once in awhile a very bad guy with a lot of very important information might come along and we might need to get that information in order to save American lives.)
Now comes word that yet another executive order isn’t exactly as advertised."
It gets better with lobbyists:
"It’s funny how much the new looks like the old.
As a candidate, Barack Obama vigorously campaigned against lobbyists’ influence in his Administration. His Administration, we were told, would be free of their taint.
No lobbyists would get a job in an Obama Administration working in areas they had lobbied on.
He would bring about a clean break with the past, “turn the page,” and put an end to acts that create cynicism among the public.
Again, I can't believe how so many millions bought into all of this hype about "hope and change".
I guess that they will be disappointed when they actually read the fine print or come to terms with the reality that there won't be that much substantial change after all!
