Seems like a Conservative point of view:
"I am sure that most college students who voted for Barack Obama never turned the news on again after the 2008 election. I know that their vote was the political equivalent to a one-night stand. How do I know this? Because these people who voted for Obama went around talking about how George W. Bush was the worst President of all-time - a monster, a liar, a warmonger - but are silent when Obama begins to take and defend Bush's policies.
"Either these students had no principles, or they abandoned them completely once the candidate of Oprah and chic took power.
"Barack Obama is continuing Bush's 'War on Terror' almost as aggressively as Bush did, and in some cases even more aggressively. First, Obama closed Guantanamo Bay and retired the term 'enemy combatant' at Guantanamo Bay, but has kept it all over the world; last week, a federal court rebuked him by ruling that he cannot keep 'enemy combatants' at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan forever (Slate Magazine, "Czar Obama").
"He also went before the Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit to push for the power to make it possible for trials to be dismissed, despite the graphic content, to protect 'state secrets.' In addition he is fighting to support NSA wiretapping, just like Bush.
"ABC News noted that while Obama was in Europe last week, his Justice Department sought to have Jewel v. NSA dismissed because 'the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction with respect to plaintiffs' statutory claims against the United States because Congress has not waived sovereign immunity' and 'because information necessary to litigate plaintiffs' claims is properly subject to and excluded from use in this case by the state secrets privilege and related statutory privileges' (ABC News, 'On State Secrets').
"This is what his administration has come to. Obama: Kenyan for Bush.
"This article is titled 'Worse than Bush.' That might be foolish to say. It might be better to say: 'Obama Needs Bush to Succeed.' Or maybe 'Obama Follows Bush,' which would be literally and metaphorically true. The point is that few people are noticing the fact that Obama is acting as if he were George W. The question is "why?"
"The answer is simple and bodes well for Bush's legacy: it's easy to whine and cry about how Bush's policies were bad for the country and he can do better, but the truth is that Bush did what Bush had to do, and now Obama is doing the same thing because it's the right thing to do. (And they were scared that McCain would be like Bush -- Robert). I wonder if college kids will ever call Obama again."
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