My understanding is that one of BO main themes in the campaign was the restoration of transparancy in government. Are the people who don't believe the truth about Bush should come out now going to win the argument, because if they do then transparancy was just another point made to get elected and nothing more. How can any adminsitration honestly champion transparancy when it is willing to turn a blind eye to what some would say are clear violations of the law by a previous adminsitration? Using that logic each successive President can promise openness while actually meaning the exact opposite. At the very least the truth must come out. Ideally, people should stand trial. Anything else is disgraceful and should be adamently protested.

If Bush is allowed to get away with this blanket pardon, then we are in fact a country of men, not of laws; a country where if you are the man in power, you set the table and invite who you want to dine with you. This is in fact what this country is, so this will be the final nail in the coffin of the notion that no one is above the law. If you are rich and powerful, you may in fact get away with murder, plunder, etc. If you aren't, then you get the hammer. That ultimately is why the Dems won't do anything, because now they have the power and they want to wield it free of any threats of retribution or justice from the law.

I think many folks on the Right were taken in by the Obama-as-Socialist strawman because of the blow hards in the Right-wing media for whom no one to the Left of Barry Goldwater would be acceptable. On the Left, people equated Obama's anti-Iraq War stance as some sort of confirmation that he is a Progressive. Obama always advertised himself as a pragmatist who was concerned with Bush's ineffective and counterproductive policies and in undoing these to make government work. That isn't a commitment to govern from the Right or the Left. Because I feel there are Progressive answers to our country's problems, I feel that they will be given a fair hearing by the President, but that doesn't mean that the Left or the Right will be happy with Obama on every issue.

Glenn, McCarthy is just doing what folks on the Right typically do when confronted with inconvenient truths; they ignore the evidence or yell all the louder to try and make their discredited point. They fully subscribe to the philosphy espoused by a Bush insider of creating their own reality. They figure if they repeat the lies long enough they will become as real as the truth. Well folks, after 8 years of Bush (as Morpheus said) welcome to the desert of the real.