This week’s Obama name game replaces "Global War on Terror" with "Overseas Contingency Operations". Well, Obama just “oversea’d” another 17,000 troops as a down-payment for the administration's non-war contingency operation.
We no longer can use the term “enemy combatants”, but Obama affirms the right to hold 600 detainees in Afghanistan without habeas corpus because these “non-enemy combatants” were captured on a foreign battlefield in hostile action during a military operation and are being held outside the U.S.
The now “non-enemy combatants” held at Gitmo will instead be held indefinitely somewhere not called Gitmo whenever someone comes up with a plan that is not in the backyard of a congressional district.
There are no longer “acts of terrorism”, just “man-caused disasters”.
Instead of acknowledging constructive and dramatic progress in race relations in our country, highlighted by the first black president and first black attorney general, and recently the first black secretaries of state, the Obama administration has labeled America a “nation of cowards” on the subject of race.
“Toxic assets” have now been renamed “legacy assets”.
“Evil-doers” are no longer radical Islamic militants but are now bankers, entrepreneurs, small business owners and corporations.
Obama doubling the national debt in 5 years is no longer "borrow and spend" but "save and invest".
President Obama rarely misses a chance criticize Bush’s security policies, all the while continuing almost all of those policies: rendition, no habeas corpus, wiretaps, state secrets, harsh interrogation, etc. Since Obama believes that “words matter”, he must believe renaming everything without changing the underlying polices is change everyone can believe in. I suppose for the uninformed majority that voted for him, it is. They just don’t have any real understanding of the facts or these policies and how politically cynical these name games are.