No Control?

Barack Obama went on five television news shows - including one on Univision - to explain his health care reform goals and other items on his agenda, and media pundits have been having a field day analyzing the President's gambit. After he laid low for much of the summer, President Obama is trying to regain control of the health care debate. Instead of being accused of not speaking up enough, though, he's now being accused of saying too much and making himself too available -as if an alternative to the imperial presidency of George Walker Bush (patterned after Richard Nixon's) is somehow bad for our democracy.

Maybe the pundits could have spent more time looking into the arrest of an Afghanistan-born U.S. resident, Najibullah Zazi, who may have been involved in a plot to bomb subway stations and perhaps Grand Central Terminal in New York. The New York Police Department and the federal Bureau of Investigation were both investigating An NYPD informant, a New York imam, may have been involved in alerting Zazi after surveillance on Zazi was somehow uncovered, although the details of how this could have happened are sketchy. Either this is a major coup by the NYPD and FBI are just another phony plot thought up by a gang of incompetents who couldn't shoot straight. But for the time being, the quickness in which the case was prosecuted may have averted a possible terrorist attack.

In the meantime, mass transit systems are on a higher state of alert as a precaution.