In the words of Tom Clancy (or Harrison Ford, I suppose): How dare YOU, Mister President?"

                First off, I want to take a moment to cast a quick apology. Back in May, I, irate with my roommate, the Bill, wrote an angry blog about him. Since then, he has fixed a few things in his life. So in the spirit of fairness, I would like to say that he is now a part-time student and that he plays his video games with the volume turned down to an acceptable level. Yes, he still doesn’t have a job. Yes, he still screams curses at his video games. No, he no longer plays those games sixteen hours a day, every day. He plays them eight hours a day, every day. He now also watches cartoons eight hours a day <sigh>.

Anyhoo, with that out of the way, I would like to move on to the main topic of this week’s blog (yes, I’m trying to do this weekly now. We’ll see how that works out. For any one of my whopping three followers who hasn’t tuned in recently, take this to mean that there might be an earlier blog or two that you’ve missed and perhaps you might consider backtracking a bit).

                So. President Obama. What the fuck, dude? Can we talk? I’ve heard your speeches both in person and on television. I shook your hand not that long ago. I am an active member of the Student Democrats at the University of Central Florida. I voted for you. However, I’m less than thrilled to hear that you ended 2011 by signing into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), also known as the Indefinite Detention Act. This bill’s second title is far more honest. This law strips away the rights of Due Process for anyone—American citizens included—if they are arrested as suspected terrorists.

                I can’t quite tell you, Mister President, which aspect bothers me more: The fact that several members of the American government (including John McCain, who was, himself, a prisoner of war) pushed for the passing of this law, or the fact that you, Mister President, admitted that you did not. Yes, you yourself admitted that this law stood unconstitutional, and yet you passed it “reluctantly.”

If George Walker Bush had done this, it would have filled me with rage. You did this, though, and it fills me with something far worse . . . disappointment.