" As much as anything else, what fueled the extreme hostility towards the Bush/Cheney administration were their imperious and radical efforts to place themselves behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and above and beyond the rule of law. It would require a virtually pathological level of tribal loyalty and monumental intellectual dishonesty not to object just as vehemently as we watch the Obama DOJ repeatedly invoke these very same theories and, in this instance, actually invent a new one that not even the Bush administration espoused.
To be clear: there are important areas in which Obama has been quite commendable, and I've personally praised him fairly lavishly for those actions (see, for instance, here, here and here), but it is simply unacceptable -- no matter what else is true about him -- for Obama to claim for himself the very legal immunity and secrecy powers which characterized and enabled the worst excesses of Bush lawlessness. Yet in a short period of time, he has taken one step after the next to do exactly that."
How long before they start calling Obama Hitler? Oh, don't worry they won't compare Obama to a chimp like they did Bush; that would be racist don't you know.
Update: Cindy Sheehan joins the anti Obama bandwagon.
"On Fox News Sheehan was recently shown describing Barack Obama as a mindless warrior akin to Bush:
"We have to put ourselves in between Barack Obama and our children. Barack Obama cannot have our children," she was videotaped saying."
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