As Brogan once again pointed out, Bush took many of our liberties already, so Obama just has to work on taking the remaining ones that Bush managed to miss (gun rights for example.)

On the other hand, it was nice to see many millions of people rejoin the political discussion now that a president of their own skin color is in the White House. I’m kind of sorry to see that’s what it took, but I do understand why that’s what it took too. Now as a country, we can all go down in bankruptcy together.

No president could solve this insolvent mess without inflicting massive pain. The true solution starts with citizens ourselves, but I don’t think most are ready to face that fact yet, as they’d rather have somebody else, such as government, fix things for them.

You may feel different about opportunities for blacks if you were black. Blacks get charged more for loans, for insurance and get worse health care than whites.

Abraham

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann “We now have President Bush speaking quite candidly that he was in the loop, we have Dick Cheney who almost bragged about it. The question for Barack Obama is whether he wants to own part of this by looking the other way.”

Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, “We have not made final decisions, but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward we are doing the right thing. That doesn’t mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But my orientation’s going to be to move forward.”

“If waterboarding is torture — and Barack Obama has said that it is torture,” Turley emphasized, “and torture is a war crime, then the president has committed a war crime if he did order waterboarding. You have to do some heavy lifting to avoid the simplicity of that logic.”

“There’s no real question that crimes were committed here by {Obama’s] predecessor,” concluded Turley, “and he can either begin his administration as a man of principle, and allow the law to take us wherever it may lead, or he will inherit the same type of moral relativism that really corrupted the previous administration. I’m going to say a silent prayer for principle.”

I’m tired of the political spin, until he proves he is the person he is trying to sell us, I’m not buying it. I out grew cool aid a long time ago!