Candidate BO was the anti-Bush.....but Pres BO is Bush III on anti-terror policies.
Eli Lake has a great column: Obama uses Bush plan for terror war
"As the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, much of President Obama's counterterrorism policies and his understanding of executive power closely hew to the last administration, which he criticized as a candidate for the White House.
On issues ranging from the government's detention authority to a program to kill al Qaeda terrorist suspects, even if they are American citizens, Mr. Obama has consolidated much of the power President George W. Bush asserted after Sept. 11 in the waging of the U.S. war against terror.
The continuities between the two administrations were evident this week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed a lawsuit that five former U.S. detainees brought against a subsidiary of Boeing Co. known as Jeppesen Dataplan."
Eli Lake has a great column: Obama uses Bush plan for terror war
"As the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, much of President Obama's counterterrorism policies and his understanding of executive power closely hew to the last administration, which he criticized as a candidate for the White House.
On issues ranging from the government's detention authority to a program to kill al Qaeda terrorist suspects, even if they are American citizens, Mr. Obama has consolidated much of the power President George W. Bush asserted after Sept. 11 in the waging of the U.S. war against terror.
The continuities between the two administrations were evident this week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit dismissed a lawsuit that five former U.S. detainees brought against a subsidiary of Boeing Co. known as Jeppesen Dataplan."
We are happy that Pres BO came to his senses after candidate BO told so many people what they wanted to hear.
At the same time, you can now understand why there is such a lack of enthusiasm in "yes we can" land.
It's hard to get excited about a guy who was so critical of Bush and learn that he is implementing much of what he criticized.
How is that closing GITMO going?
Check out Tim Rutten of The LA Times:
"President Obama and his administration have embraced the secrecy and usurpations of power that made possible the Bush-Cheney betrayal of American values"
