It's Not Easy Being President

“Once again, the president finds it's not so easy to scrap the policies of his much-maligned predecessor. As with Gitmo and military tribunals, so it goes with offshore drilling and even Arctic wildlife.” (IBD Editorials) It’s easy to criticize the policies of a man who is FACING the fact of being president and the necessity for making “tough decisions.” It’s harder when you ARE the president and have to make those decisions yourself. That’s why Obama is “reversing course” on so many issues about which he criticized President Bush; such as closing Gitmo (which he is STILL “considering closing within a year even though nobody wants those bloody murderers we’re keeping away from society), resuming Bush’s “military tribunals” and many other things Bush started or continued, but which he is ignoring, rather than losing “political capital” from Democrats by dealing with them. (IBD Editorials)