For The Obama Administration, Even The Positive Is Approached In A Negative Way

For The Obama Administration, Even Potentially Positive Moves Are Undertaken In An Incredibly Wishy Washy Way

On a day when two U.S. journalists were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for being enemies of the North Korean state, the Obama administration said that it is "considering" putting NK back onto the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Why the Bush administration ever removed them is beyond me, but this potentially positive step by Obama is prefaced by diplomatic mumbo jumbo uttered by Secretary of State Clinton as to how the process would work.

This step is being considered due to the fact that North Korea seems to have the desire to flex it's nuclear muscle and sabre rattle regarding it's stance towards the rest of the world. Here is part of what Clinton said:

"...Clinton was asked on ABC's "This Week" about a letter that some senators wrote Obama about returning North Korea to that list.


"We're going to look at it. There's a process for it," Clinton said in the interview, taped Thursday in Egypt.

"Obviously we would want to see recent evidence of their support for international terrorism."

She added, "We're just beginning to look at it. I don't have an answer for you right now...." (LATimes)

Why does this decision need to go through miles of diplomatic rigmarole. Just Do It!

The National Debt Road Trip

The video below was created by PoliticalMath in the blog of the same name. It takes a look at the spending that has been done by government over time, and breaks it down into a standard measure that is understandable by all of us: miles per hour. What it finds is that in the name of necessity, government spending is traveling at speeds none of us will ever achieve, unless we are in a plane or on an Indy track.

The spending being done at this pace dwarfs that of any administration in history, yet is accepted with little or no problem by the citizenry of the country. I suppose in the collective mind of the American public, if the Obama administration is doing it, how can it possibly be wrong?



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