This editorial was posted in full with permission from John Jay Myers. His website can be found here.
We all Hoped for a Change after Bush waged undeclared wars abroad, expanded socialized medicine with Medicare Part D, detained and tortured people without a trial, and gave us the Patriot Act. But after Obama continued the wars, increased drone bombing campaigns, enacted yet another national health care scheme, signed legislation giving government the power to detain and assassinate American citizens, and reauthorized Bush’s Patriot Act, I no longer have any realistic expectation that our Constitutional lawyer turned Commander in Chief will even try to act within the legal limits of his power.… Read more ...