I must say, that I never expected this out of President Obama.  Here it is 7:05 PM and there is no sign of the President.

The most important address of his Presidency and he can’t even show up on time.  What a planner he is.

If he ever does show up, I am sure I will eventually hear about it.

For those of you that have as short an attention span as I do when it comes to extreme right Republicans debating, here is just a little too much of last night’s debate.

In the article Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity, Paul Krugman states:

But back to my main point: if you just can’t believe I’m saying the things I say, at least consider the possibility that you’re the one who just doesn’t get it.

I have always had another way of putting it that makes the same point.

If you can’t imagine something to be true, perhaps it is a problem of your lack of imagination.

Perhaps I ought to turn this into another one of Greenberg’s Laws.

Of course, what we should really be saying is,

If you could give me a few minutes to explain, then perhaps you could imagine it.

The following tidbit from Obama Transition Team Member Explains Why Administration Chose Not to Prosecute Torture:

… if laws were enforced against Bush, Cheney, or their subordinates, the Republicans in Congress would retaliate by trying to block any useful piece of legislation.

provides an insight into Obama’s strategic thinking.

I would think that the threat of such prosecution could be used as a weapon to keep the Republicans in line.  Instead, Obama thought that it could be used as a weapon against his initiatives by the potential targets of the prosecution.  According to his biography, Obama decided to leave the field of community organizing to go to Harvard Law School so that he could learn where the real levers of power were.  I think he wasted his money if Harvard taught him not to threaten to prosecute people because they might get angry at you.