Originally Posted by roachboy

i haven't time at the moment, so i'll maybe get back to this...but i don't see obama as having particularly backed off of any campaign promises insofar as the "war on terror" is concerned...but i was one of those people who wasn't particularly impressed with obama, who saw him as certainly far preferable to anything like the bush administration, but also as a centrist so nothing like what conservatives painted him as being. the central problem so far as i was concerned was that he accepted the "war on terror"--he said repeatedly (in the debates for example) that the plan was to end the excessive-to-explicitly-fascist practices foisted on the world by the bush people (gitmo, for example, which is en route--but the others? hard to say because of the raison d'etat established around the "war on terror")...drawing down in iraq (where reality is quite other than we have been led to believe it is--but this too is en route, albeit slowly)...and to focus on afghanistan, which he saw as the "legitimate" center of this "war."

so i see him as having moved in a straight line.
it isn't a line i agree with, but it is a straight line.
within the constraints imposed by the bush administration in all its grandeur of course.