"Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds"

Charles Krauthammer:

... the tacit endorsement conveyed by the Obama continuity-we-can-believe-in transition. It's not just the retention of such key figures as Defense Secretary Bob Gates or Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner, who, as president of the New York Fed, has been instrumental in guiding the Bush financial rescue over the past year. It's the continuity of policy.

It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this week in Baghdad, adheres to the Bush-negotiated status-of-forces agreement that envisions a U.S. withdrawal over three years, not the 16-month timetable on which Obama campaigned.

It is the great care Obama is taking in not preemptively abandoning the anti-terror infrastructure that the Bush administration leaves behind. While still a candidate, Obama voted for the expanded presidential wiretapping (FISA) powers that Bush had fervently pursued. And while Obama opposes waterboarding (already banned, by the way, by Bush's CIA in 2006), he declined George Stephanopoulos's invitation (on ABC's "This Week") to outlaw all interrogation not permitted by the Army Field Manual. Explained Obama: "Dick Cheney's advice was good, which is let's make sure we know everything that's being done," i.e., before throwing out methods simply because Obama campaigned against them.

I am reluctantly beginning to believe that Obama is going to be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush and the worst thing that ever happened to those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Vindication indeed.

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Rick:
I am reluctantly beginning to believe that Obama is going to be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush and the worst thing that ever happened to those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome.

LOL

We saw it in the debates. Barack being forced toward the middle... just as reality is doing now.

I don't know what happened to John... he just kind of splattered everywhere.