On the domestic front, Bush broadly expanded federal spending on education, signed campaign finance reform and orchestrated a huge expansion of health-care entitlements with his prescription drug benefit. Whatever the merits of those policies, it’s unlikely historians will see them as a radical, right-wing break from the Clinton years.
much as Obama’s own foreign policy advisors have for a while — that his foreign policy promises will not survive contact with post-election reality.

Already, Obama is changing his tune from his old, irresponsibly heated rhetoric about “immediate” withdrawal to talking about the need for policies that would adapt to the improving conditions in Iraq. Given Obama’s ideological leanings and inexperience, there’s clearly plenty of potential for him to make costly mistakes. But odds are he, too, would come to realize that America needs to win the war on terror and succeed in Iraq.

Hence the greatest irony. A successful Obama presidency would have the u

Mainstream of Presidential History? Pardon me, but I only count three Presidents in the clip who've pursued these ungodly and wicked practices.

Oh, they are not ungodly or wicked. Jeesh!

Extraordinary rendition? ... Holding prisoners indefinitely ... without benefit of a trial? we were doing that ... to innocent Haitian refugees

Sending people to other countries for purposes of evading torture rules is not wicked? Imprisoning innocent people indefinitely is not ungodly? Jesus would do it?

I following him was about setting prisoners free, not locking them up without cause.

I mean, "I thought following him was about ..."