Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. Last night, as I sat in La Casa del Terror, Olivia curled up at my side, the remnants of a tasty Italian sausage dinner scattered across my plate, I pondered all the changes that have happened over the past year.
Like the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp...no, wait. Gitmo is still open.
And our exit from both of the wars started by the previous administration...except we not only still have troops in Iraq and Afganistan, we're sending even more.
And the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"...but the gays and lesbians who want to fight for their country still have to stay in the closet or be thrown out of the military.
Ot the end to partisan bickering in Washington...er, that's pretty much worse than ever, really. Democrats spent so much time and energy bickering amongst themselves and trying to appease the more conservative members of their party that health care reform stalled, even when they (briefly) had a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. And Republicans? If Democrats say "Day," Republicans say "Night"--opposing merely for the sake of opposition.
And...oh, why go on? Little has changed in the intervening 365 days. Much promised. Little delivered. Same old same old.
If we'd elected John McCain, we'd have gotten roughly the same results.
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