Obama ran against Bush, but now governs like him

[TacticalPeek]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — He ran as the anti-Bush.

Silver-tongued, not tongue-tied. A team player on the world stage, not a lone cowboy. A man who'd put a stop to reckless Bush policies at home and abroad. In short, Barack Obama represented Change.

Well, that was then. Now, on one major policy after another, President Barack Obama seems to be morphing into George W. Bush.
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On terrorism, he criticized Bush for sending suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and denying them access to U.S. civilian courts. Now he says he'll do the same.
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And on war, as a candidate he said that the president didn't have authority to unilaterally attack a country that didn't pose an imminent threat to the U.S., and even then the president should always seek the informed consent of Congress. Last month, without a vote in Congress, he attacked Libya, which didn't threaten the U.S.



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Sadly, a news article not an opinion piece.

[Richardo]

1. That's some insightful stuff right there....

...is this article from 2009? :boring:

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Bullshit.

If he governed like Bush this article would never have seen the light of day.


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[Champion Jack]

5. Bingo

[bhikkhu]

3. Is that you Karl?

...another clever hit piece, with all the right code words and innuendo, stopping just short of outright lies - sometimes just putting words in proximity is enough.

[Champion Jack]

4. +1,000,000,000

[Cherchez la Femme]

8. Point out the untruths. Educate us, please.

[FSogol]

6. What a load of crap. n/t

[midnight]

7. I think the gridlock in Washington has been the staybehinds....

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/31/hersh-cheney-behind/


GROSS: Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise be coming forward and revealing things to you about what happened in the Bush administration?

HERSH: I’ll make it worse. I think he’s put people left. He’s put people back. They call it a stay behind. It’s sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, you’ve driven out the, you know, you’ve lost the war. You leave people behind. It’s a stay behind that you can continue to contacts with, to do sabotage, whatever you want to do. Cheney’s left a stay behind. He’s got people in a lot of agencies that still tell him what’s going on. Particularly in defense, obviously. Also in the NSA, there’s still people that talk to him. He still knows what’s going on. Can he still control policy up to a point? Probably up to a point, a minor point. But he’s still there. He’s still a presence. And again, because of the problems this administration’s having filling jobs, a lot of people who served in the Bush Cheney government, particularly even in the White House people on most sophisticated staffs are still there. You simply can’t get rid of everybody, you may not even want to. Some are professional people. But Cheney is, I would never call it admiration, but, you know, formidable, yeah, this guy. This guy is the real McCoy.