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Right-on, Glenn. My daughters school was doing a commemoration of George Bush, and I told her teacher that I didn't want she wasn't going to participate because I didn't want her commemorating a war criminal. The teacher got very flustered, and some of the other parents rolled their eyes (including my wife ;) and I was pooh-pooh'ed.
I think people just really don't know what's been going on. I don't hear the regular media much, but my local NPR does very little on torture, illegal detention and lack of habeus.
When I talk about this with my family it comes across as some sort of black helicopter government conspiracy thing. I think people really don't want to know about it, and the news doesn't want to tell them. Their solution will be for Obama to - quietly - discontinue these practices and go back to doing them in secret, like the good old days (except for the few right wing nuts that actually think torture is ok if it's a terra-rist).
Ten years from now the "reality" will be that the US never tortured and never tortures and we're number one. It is amazing how right Orwell was.
