He has done plenty to irk me since his canadacy, but when he was elected Ive since kept an open mind, and want to give him a chance to see what he can do. Clearly something is wrong with the way our country is/was being run and there is room for improvement.

Also, I realize that the manner in which the Bush administration ran many facets of our gov't were extremely shady and boderline unamerican. No one is more against the needless loss of american life and abuses of federal power than I (im an old school conservative that thinks we need a smaller less powerful federal govt and more powerful state govt's). But i think we need to get over how fucked up shit got and worry about how to fix it.

Well a bunch of congressional democrats tried to put together a panel to investigate and really blacken the former administrations eye even further than they did themselves and President Obamas response was to say "he was more interested in looking forward than back." I have to say that was handled with great tact and may be just the type the leadership we need rather than more partisan bullshit.

You just got one cool point from me. keep it up. for extra cool points you could nix your program to give federal money to expedite the immigration process for hamas militants in palestine to the US that you endorsed this past week.