Obamboozled
Then-Senator Obama spent the whole of the '08 campaign declaring loudly & often that President Bush had politicized the Department of Justice; what we've seen from the Justice Department in the first twenty-one months of the Obama Administration is politicization on a ghastly & previously unimaginable scale at the same time that investigations have cleared the Bush Administration of any impropriety in the celebrated case of the firing of eight United States Attorneys, who, after all, serve at the pleasure of the president. Similarly, then-Senator Obama roundly denounced President Bush for politicizing government reports on science. Kind of funny, then, isn't it, how the Obama White House used bad science to lie about the quantity of petroleum bubbling out of this year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Liar! Liar! Pants afire!link. Feeding the public blatant misinformation, Mr. President? Actively withholding the truth, Mr. President? Your sin, Mr. President, while great, would be less so were it not so unforgivably hypocritical.

I was going to title this post "Obamboozled: Science!," but unlike President Obama my conscience does not permit me to politicize science while denouncing others for that very thing. Thus, let me reiterate that this is an "Obamboozled" post, NOT a "Science!" post.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Staggers, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary:

"Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more,
The bloody Red Baron was rolling up the score!
Eighty men died trying to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany."