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Greenwald doesn't spare Obama:

I'm not searching for ways to criticize Obama.  I wish I could be writing paeans celebrating the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law.  But these actions -- these contradictions between what he said and what he is doing, the embrace of the very powers that caused so much anger towards Bush/Cheney -- are so blatant, so transparent, so extreme, that the only way to avoid noticing them is to purposely shut your eyes as tightly as possible and resolve that you don't want to see it, or that you're so convinced of his intrinsic Goodness that you'll just believe that even when it seems like he's doing bad things, he must really be doing them for the Good.  If there was any unanimous progressive consensus over the last eight years, it was that the President does not have the power to kidnap people, ship them far away, and then imprison them indefinitely in a cage without due process.  Has that progressive consensus changed as of January 20, 2009?  I think we're going to find out.