It's clear to me that the first African-American POTUS is a catalytic president.

[Zen Democrat]

93. And I disagreed about that from the beginning. I think Barack Obama should have listened to Biden.

I don't think he walks on water. But I think he's a great and gifted man that I'm proud of having supported. He's done quite a few things I thought were mistakes, as did Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. But was the world better off because they were president? Absolutely. So you go after Obama's jugular? If you don't know we have had this National Security State since WWII and that it exploded during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, and again during Bush II, you need to read more factual histories.

Remember the Total Information Awareness program that Admiral Poindexter developed? After a hue and cry it was "quietly discarded" in 2003 saith the media. Except now we know it wasn't. How much do they control that no president can touch? I don't know. But nobody has successful brought it under civilian control, to the best of my knowledge.