Commentary
Like the proverbial straw that finally breaks the camel's back, the time has come to end my admiration for Barack Obama.
I guess the end came with his recent broken promise -- he has now retreated and agreed to keep Guantanamo open, and commence with the military trials.
But the disillusionment had been building for at least a year.
I quickly add: Sure, I will vote for him in 2012. What other choices do we have?
But my support, adoration and involvement will be more tepid than the enthusiasm he generated for me -- and millions others -- in his exciting win in 2008.
And though the Guantanamo decisions were the end of the road for my belief -- and hope -- that "change" actually was going to come to America, it was not single position or action that caused me to end my support.
Rather it was a long series of disappointing decisions that finally created a mosaic of him being just another president, willing to accept the decline of our country as we slide down a slippery slope.