I've been telling a friend of mine that Obama will have a very difficult choice to make as president....and maybe that time is already here. He will dismantle all the work that Bush and the GOP did (Iraq, Guantanamo, etc)to score a short term political victory and ‘I told you so’ moment or he will do what is best for the country and continue pushing forward on the work that was begun in the previous administration.
Either way, Obama loses something. He's put himself in a very difficult box over the last year or so. My guess is he won't sacrifice the safety of the country and continue on with the Bush/Chenney work...if for no other reason, his reputation is on the line. However, eating crow is never easy, and Barack strikes me as a particularly disdainful fellow.
In any case, Barack’s incessant need to keep going back to the ‘failings’ of the past administration tell me only one thing. He has no plan. The fact is, he's never had to have a plan for anything in his life. There is no more ladder to climb and now he's clueless.
You're right, he's clueless, and now he's also stuck at the top of the political ladder.
A successful terrorist strike, a substantial one, would be politically devastating to the Obamarrhoids in the MSM and Administration (remember they overlap: Begala-Carville-Emanuel-Clintonopoulos all on speed dial together).
And I think that is what Cheney is doing, engaging Obama and getting him on the record, setting a marker against which Obama's future failures will be measured whether Obama and his pressbots like it or not.
Point.