Good grief, Charlie Brown! On this thread and others all around the Webosphere folks are already posting criticisms about President-elect Obama and he hasn’t (obviously) taken office yet. A lot of the howling seems to be coming from my compatriots on the left. Don’t you all think it might be decent to at least let the man sit down behind his desk before we start harrumphing that he isn’t going to do it your way, or my way, or their way? Or, have we all become so used to just complaining about the government that we can’t get over it? Doesn’t he get a short honeymoon before he has to start defending his every breath?

President-elect Obama was wise to name a star as Secretary of State, someone known around the world, someone who has the strength to unravel the mess the Bush crew has made, and the credentials to do it. Hillary Clinton will walk into any room anywhere and nobody will doubt who she represents or what her purpose is. This appointment will go a long way to re-establishing America’s standing in the world. As the nation slips and slides on the brink of one disaster and then another, Ms. Clinton will help add reassurance that is desperately needed after eight failed years.

I CONSIDER myself a way left of center liberal, and make no apologizes. I want to see national healthcare, end of war and all the rest, along with protected forests and parks, ecological progress and a massive reduction in military spending to pay for everything. I want to see the very rich taxed until they squeak, and the criminals who wrecked the economy dragged from their $25 million dollar houses and lashed publicly on television before they’re sent to jail. And, so on…

HOWEVER, I worked for President-elect Obama, gave money to the campaign, gave money to Move On. And, so on…

I MAY be a raving wild-eyed socialist at heart, but I’m also pragmatic enough to sit back and give Mr. Obama all the support I can muster so that he has a chance to keep us all from falling into the black pit that the Republicans have dug while they were looting the nation and murdering people.

NOW if rational people, and by that I exclude snake-handling pro-whatevers, can’t buckle down and help turn the Ship of State around before they start making demands that can only be addressed later, then I fear we’ll just hand everything back to the cretins at the American Enterprise Institute and let them elect Sarah Palin.

I posted a similar letter on Greenwald's site, but have to say Take a Deep Breath and look at what's going on.

I CONSIDER myself a way left of center liberal, and make no apologizes. I want to see national healthcare, end of war and all the rest, along with protected forests and parks, ecological progress and a massive reduction in military spending to pay for everything. I want to see the very rich taxed until they squeak, and the criminals who wrecked the economy dragged from their $25 million dollar houses and lashed publicly on television before they’re sent to jail. And, so on…

HOWEVER, I worked for President-elect Obama, gave money to the campaign, gave money to Move On. And, so on…

I MAY be a raving wild-eyed socialist at heart, but I’m also pragmatic enough to sit back and give Mr. Obama all the support I can muster so that he has a chance to keep us all from falling into the black pit that the Republicans have dug while they were looting the nation and murdering people.

NOW if rational people, and by that I exclude snake-handling pro-whatevers, can’t buckle down and help turn the Ship of State around before they start making demands that can only be addressed later, then I fear we’ll just hand everything back to the cretins at the American Enterprise Institute and let them elect Sarah Palin.

It all starts with a history revision in W’s mind. Wrong information, others were clamoring for invasion of a sovereign nation, etc. What we don’t really know is if W was involved in letting 911 happen so that he could be a wartime president. Did he know that we were on the cusp of this disaster and did nothing to prevent it? That’s a possibility. I can see Dick Cheney rubbing his hands in glee and buying more stock in the war industry. After all it is quite clear that Bush and company rushed to get ready to invade even as millions around the world protested, asking for more time to investigate. In an interview with Dan Rather, Saddam stated flatly that there were no WMD in Iraq and invited inspection.

All of this and other speculation is now water under the bridge. We know that Bush et al. lied to the American people, rushed to war thinking it really would be over in days or weeks, probably deluded themselves into believing they would be greeted as liberators and that oil revenue would pay the tab.

The question that Ms. Walsh doesn’t ask is this: who is going to hold this gang of thieves and con artists responsible? Who is prepared to see justice done? Our nation will never heal as long as these people go into comfortable (and rather privileged) retirement. Worse the citizens of the United States will have condoned all of this criminal activity, but unlike the Germans after WWII we can not pretend we didn’t know what was going on. We’ve seen it on television and in the newspapers, on the radio and the Internet every day for years.