a vastly persuadable mass of idiots held captive by a highly motivated minority of plutocrats
Asked what advice hed give himself if he could go back to his first day in office, President Obama said Wednesday, I wouldve closed Guantanamo on the first day.
I didnt because at that time we had a bipartisan agreement that it should be closed, Mr. Obama said at a town hall-style event in Cleveland, Ohio. I thought that we had a consensus there that we could do it [in a deliberate] fashion.
Instead, he continued, The politics got tough, and people got scared by the rhetoric around it
The path of least resistance was to leave it open, even though its not who we are as a country.
See, thats where the Presidents community-organizer training led him astray: This is who we are as a country not a rather unwieldy group of neighbors trying to achieve a workable concensus, but a vastly persuadable mass of idiots held captive by a highly motivated minority of plutocrats, grifters, and sociopaths.
Or, as NYMag more gently phrased it, Rather than focusing on Guantanamo, he couldve just told his past self to abandon any hope of bipartisan compromise.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/03/20/open-thread-roads-not-taken/