As the whole world must know by now, Tuesday November 4 was the day Barack H. Obama was elected President of the United States in an electoral vote landslide. His election as President was a sound repudiation of the Bush war crimes and violations of the Constitution. To many, it feels as if the United States of America has emerged from a long, dark tunnel and at last the shine of daylight is visible again. For many Americans, this is the first time in a long time they’ve been able to feel good about their country.
People will no doubt be arguing about just what the American people wanted out of Barack Obama by voting for him, but there is no doubt whatsoever that he was elected to avoid four more years of the Bush regime, which John McCain would represent.
We are all against the use of torture. We are all against the unconstitutional expansion of executive power. We are all against letting the government pry into our lives and spy on us. This is why I saw fit to start this blog, to make sure people don’t forget what they hated so much about Bush, and to make sure they remember why they elected Obama. If he derelicts on his duty, if he ignores the will of the people, then it should be acknowledged and confronted with even more vigor than during the Bush regime. Our freedoms are too far gone to give one more politician a free pass.
This blog is intended to illustrate in simple terms just how different from Bush Obama turns out to be when it comes to the most important human rights issues of our time. Will he spend his time playing around with entitlement programs and rephrasing the War on Terror, or will he lead a true departure from the disastrously criminal ways of the Bush White House?
