"Yesterday's speech and the odd, extremely bipartisan reaction to it underscored one of the real dangers of the Obama presidency: taking what had been ideas previously discredited as Republican or right-wing dogma and transforming them into bipartisan consensus. It's not just Republicans but Democrats that are now vested in -- and eager to justify -- the virtues of war, claims of Grave Danger posed by Islamic radicals and the need to use massive military force to combat them, indefinite detention, military commissions, extreme secrecy, full-scale immunity for government lawbreaking, and so many other doctrines once purportedly despised by Democrats but now defended by them because their leader has embraced them." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

There is an obvious major implication here: Obama could turn out to be a more destructive president than Bush. He has paved the way to pursue the same neoconservative policies as Bush, without any effective opposition in the Democratic Party. Absolutely brilliant, from the standpoint of the neoliberals (Democratic neocons -- Emanuel, Holbrooke, Ross, Summers, and others) who are running the Obama administration. And notice how many Obama supporters are willing to go along with the big parade without asking any questions. Fooling most of the people most of the time is a piece of cake. - Sean McBride

Incisive. - Cole Jolley