Reply #7: I wish he would be honest about why Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Addington,

[Peace Patriot]

Gonzales and assorted Bush Junta TOP CRIMINALS are not being pursued, investigated, prosecuted, fined (Big Time), and jailed, or put in stockades, or given a lifetime of community service cleaning bedpans in veterans' hospitals, as should be happening in a country with the rule of law.

He wants to "look forward, not backward" doesn't cut it. Something else is going on--or has gone on--and he isn't being straightforward about it, in my opinion. If we're going to be a democracy, the leaders have to trust that the people can take the truth, and should be enlisted in whatever struggle we face--whether it's Bush Junta blackmail, or a secret deal to immunize them for some reason (their planned nuking of Iran?--that's my guess; a countercoup de-fanged them, ousted Rumsfeld, and arranged for sufficiently honest vote counting for a Democrat to win).

Obama is a Constitutional scholar. Surely he understand what peril it puts us in when such crimes go unpunished.

The only other objection I really have--given what I think he is up against--is bombing more civilians in Afghanistan.

Oh, one other thing: I hope he fired whoever wrote his script and set up the Univision interview (far rightwing corpo 'news' monopoly) during his Inauguration week, saying that Hugo Chavez fostered "terrorism" and is "bad for the progress of the region." Utter left-baiting bullshit, and the completely wrong foot to get off on, if he really intends peaceful, cooperative relations with Latin America, where Chavez is highly respected by almost all of the leaders, including center-leftists like Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, and is revered by the vast poor majority for good reason. Things seem to have improved since then--but that bullshit was worrisome.

His other initiatives, actions, statements and plans--and, above all, his great intelligence, openness to ideas and debate, and political skill--and his fighting back against fascist media--are wondrous to behold.