Expiration dates

He says now he wants to revise his statement about limiting executive bonuses for CEOs whose company received bailout loans. Someone must have told him that telling private company CEOs how much they could make is not the way to retain top talent during hard times – that the best would merely move to companies not suffering under the restriction. Our new President has proven he is a grand master at the political pirouette. He excels at the DemPol tell-em-anything-they-won’t-remember-anyway approach. During the campaign, he said he would immediately bring the troops home. He now says we will withdraw U.S. combat troops by Aug. 31, 2010, but that as many as 50,000 Marines and soldiers would remain until the end of 2011. He said he had no interest in setting up the (un)fairness doctrine, a Machiavellian ploy to curtail freedom of speech of a selected segment of our media – talk radio – under the guise of fairness. He is now open to this. Only a lawyer DemPol, or George Orwell, could make a case for eliminating a constitutional right and then claim he was doing it to be fair. Someone pertinently said that there is an expiration date for Obama’s declarations.