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To: epicure who wrote (174444)	10/24/2011 11:18:59 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541701

On the courts, they are different. On war, similar ("more targeted") On environment, similar On taxes, similar Who cut more social programs? Wealth disparity grows apace. On energy? Obama makes green gestures, but mostly we are just drilling more than with the oilmen. Medical marijuana? We'll find out in the next month. Both born in the USA, too. :>) I'm not the only one who has noticed. Even mutual employees will tell you that. Meet the new boss, same at the old boss....my coverage of Robert Gates, speaking to ROTC students and reporters at the National Constitution Center this afternoon: If one thing motivated the 53 percent of Americans who voted for President Obama in 2008 more than anything else, it was the notion that a Democrat in the White House would bring radical change from the excesses of George W. Bush. And nowhere was that more true than in the area of defense and fighting terrorism, where partisans expected Obama to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, try terrorists in civilian courtrooms and guide the nation out of its unending and costly wars overseas. But now the man who ended up serving as defense secretary under both presidents says that an Obama administation didn’t really deliver any change at all when it came to military and anti-terror issues. “I think on a lot of the big issues there was a lot of continuity,” said Robert Gates, the recently retired Pentagon chief who was in Philadelphia yesterday to receive the 2011 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center. philly.com According to Alex Barker writing in a November 9 blog entry for Britain’s Financial Times, President George W. Bush once confided to several British officials, including then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, “I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me.” Although former President Bush’s spokespeople have vehemently denied that the President ever said any such thing, Bush’s statement seems in line with what too few partisan Democrats and Republicans are willing to acknowledge: that differences between former President Bush and President Obama are mostly cosmetic thenewamerican.com Jeremy Scahill: The Obama Doctrine Is No Different Than Bush's thenation.com I don't know the Repub. Liberty Caucus, but they see it. Obama-Bush Foreign Policy Consensus rlc.org