John Stewart misses the point

I'll start by saying that the furriners office are huge fans of the Daily Show and I understand that the show tries to call a spade a spade even when that means taking on the very Liberals they support but the montage of "it's complicated" quotes really misses the point.

- The Oil Spill - While there are certainly things that the Obama administration could be doing better this is still a failure of a private company not the government.

- Health Care Reform - Turns out like most topics that make it to congress for debate it really is complicated. This has been thorn in Americas side for 40 years and this President finally did something about it.

- Financial Reform - I can only assume that the complaint here is that the administration is pushing it's agenda enough however it doesn't do the President to take a stand on and push for legislation that this historically obstructionist congress won't pass. Just ask President Clinton how well that works.

- Gitmo - This is complicated because, as the Daily Show has aptly pointed out, Americans are completely ignorant on the topic. Some how people are convinced that accused Muslim terrorist are more dangerous than a good ol American born and bread violent criminal. The President is between a real rock and a hard place here because it would be political suicide to just let these guys go, even though the vast majority of them are nothing more than foot soliders, but even if the public would allow it we can't bring them to American prisons because to do so would require that we actually charge them with something and the previous administration was more concerned about perfecting its torture techniques and covering up the illegal nature of them than the were in collecting actual evidence to charge these "terrorist" with a crime.

What John Stewart seemed to indicate was that the President should be less politician and more forceful, but this request is really the ultimate in hypocracy for a guy who one could argue is largely successful for having railed against this very tactic when employed by the Bush administration. Unfortunately you can't have it both ways. I for one am glad that President Obama surronds himself with the brightest and best, gathering as much information as possible in order to make calculated moves that result in more success than failure. Just imagine where we would be right now if President Bush had a similar policy.