I stupidly vote for Progressive Fantasies.

Time has been limited lately but there is an excellent Tom Tomorrow out this week that really kind of sums up issues I have with Obama.

That really kind of hits the nail using the current brewing scandal regarding alleged Wikileaks paperwork provider Pfc. Bradley Manning. This New York Times opinion piece seems to have "set the stage" for this mini-scandal quite well.

Private Manning is in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va. For one hour a day, he is allowed to walk around a room in shackles. He is forced to remove all his clothes every night. And every morning he is required to stand outside his cell, naked, until he passes inspection and is given his clothes back.

Certainly not the world ending, awful abuse administered by the "previous administration" but what is particularly awful about this, aside from the fact that he is being punished for apparently aiding a revelation of "the truth" (a post all to it's own I should some day get around to making) by an outside party not formally affiliated with the state approved media services in this country, was that Obama was supposed to be against this sort of thing.

Far more troubling is why President Obama, who has forcefully denounced prisoner abuse, is condoning this treatment. Last week, at a news conference, he said the Pentagon had assured him that the terms of the private’s confinement “are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards.” He said he could not go into details, but details are precisely what is needed to explain and correct an abuse that should never have begun.

And that seems to apply to so many, many things that this naive, librul, douche on the internet had truly hoped Obama was to change such as Gitmo closing for real and not "on paper," the end of extraordinary rendition, and all the fun security state-war-powers-patriot-act-NSA-wiretap stuff that seems to have become flat out institutional. It's part of "yesterday's news" not to be looked back upon because there is just too damn much shit to look forward to now, like magical budget austerity and budget discussions that somehow only affect the middle class on down. I have alluded to the following notion before that once power is attained no one will have the where-with-all, nor balls, to relinquish it.

Very disturbing, as this news is about Pfc. Manning it's hard to really focus on this mini-scandal as it's not like there isn't a few other things on the table right now. Which is why I refer to it as a mini-scandal because I imagine most people could give a fuck about that dirty traitor Manning at the moment. You know, there's a freaking apocalyptic nightmare occurring in Japan, essentially a civil war in Libya, another brewing in Bahrain, after affects of the great Egyptian protests on the rest of the Middle East. Not to mention here at home Wisconsin continues be a focal point which has been joined in conservative ridiculousness in Ohio and Michigan just to bullet point a few things "happening" as I type this.