Let the same be said for the wars in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. These are disasters that Obama inherited, but In my opinion he is making them his own.

500,000 dollars a minute continues to flow down a bottomless pit for continuing the war in Iraq alone. And Obama has plans that are championed by both McCain and Lieberman for sending ever more of our beleaguered troops to Afghanistan.

With respect to Iran, Obama put out a public televised message at once calling for better relations, and simultaneously continuing, in so many words, to call them the axis of evil accusing them of sponsoring terrorism and building a nuclear bomb. This is not the way that diplomacy is supposed to work.

I am also saddened by the reported continuation of the brutality at Gitmo. The defense by Obama's administration of Bush's policy of detention of suspects without charge is shocking. The continued killing of civilians by the use of drones in Pakistan and the endless war in Iraq makes me feel that a McCain administration would have not been substantially different than Obama's on these fronts. The rosy glow of Obama's victory and the joy with which it was received in much of the world might soon fade.

But now, taking away bonus money from already overly rich and pampered brats is somehow a threat to democracy?   HUH??

Another thing, on TW they were all whining about how Wall Street, whose main and apparently only concern is for making big money for Wall Street itself, won't really trust the notion of making money for American citizens in general.  Yet, these right wingers spent 8 years decrying the lack of patriotism on the left from citizens against war.  

In other words, what I am hearing is only rich American citizens matter...only gated communities matter...on the jobs and contracts of the upper class matter.  I knew this attitude always existed in the upper echelons but to hear the pundit class openly talking about this as if this is the understandable way to think.

Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify--and publicly release--three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees.

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Because of an executive order signed by President Obama on Jan. 22 banning such aggressive tactics, deputies to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. concluded there was no longer any reason to keep the interrogation memos classified.

Newsweek

Reagan/Bush administration did not stop the S&L collapse.

The spirit to go back and see how this new banking scam is relational to the one we had in the eighties. Alarming whats happening and what we don't hear on mainstream media is the same people, same problems, even more worse than before is happening, yet Obama seems to think much of what was done was legal? Not!

From ezine

Numerous commenters' have pointed out similarities between the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and the recent collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Greed, corruption, fraud, and Wall Street money, and deregulation, political manipulations: all are blamed for both crises. But the real story is that of the government specifically setting up an industry to fail, and pumping that market full of cheap, easy money before the inevitable collapse.

Here is the full article,

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Are-the-SandL-Crisis-and-the-Subprime-Collapse-Similar?&id=1746067

But if you look at several Google entries there is overwhelming evidence Bush and Company should be prosecuted for war crimes and domestic fraud. Think Obama has the courage; his Attorney doesn't think so with that comment that America is a country of cowards, Obama being the first.

It was interesting to watch Newt Gingrich in a presentation with James Carvel at some University class. Here, Newt was slamming the hell out Bush as failed. Limbaugh must be having fits...