Posts Tagged ‘“Change We Can Believe In”’

Greg Gutfeld

Daily Gut: The New Gitmo Is the Old Gitmo

by Greg Gutfeld

So President Obama finally figured out what to do with those detainees at Gitmo, and it only cost $12 million per captive. That’s right: we’re sending those 17 Chinese Muslim terror suspects currently at Gitmo to a place called Palau, in exchange for 200 million bucks in aid.

FYI: Palau is a little island somewhere near the Philippines, with a population of about 20,000 people. It was also the site for “Survivor,” twice – so it’s obviously familiar with housing no-good, belligerent ass-hats.

So let me get this straight: Obama’s solution for fulfilling his promise to dismantle a prison camp in a foreign land… is to replace it with another prison camp in a foreign land.

Truly, this is change we can believe in. (more…)

Gary Graham

The New America – Deja Vu All Over Again

by Gary Graham

The simple catch-phrase slogans bandied about for the past year were the thing of pop culture legend.  Hope.  Change We Need.  Change We Can Believe In.  Yes We Can.

Pabulum to the ‘downtrodden’… manna to the Constitutional deconstructionists… and justification to history revisionists everywhere.  But prior to the election these euphemistic phrases were long on emotional incitement and glaringly short on substance.  If words can be taken to mean anything…ultimately, they mean nothing.

Or so we thought.

Five months after the election we are starting to see that President Obama meant something very specific with these slogans that helped garner him the election.  It just wasn’t quite what any of us Americans thought he meant. (more…)