NB Commentary: When the now President Obama was running for election back in 2007 he made a lot of promises and gave people the adage that Hope and Change were in the offing. It was time and "Yes, We Can" rang out through the media and the entertainment world took it up and splattered every media outlet with this adage. I even remember myself feeling anxious about the election and wondered if he really would win. He appeared to be anti-everything that his predecessor was openly for.
Now, years later, we see that there has been very little Hope and even less change.
What struck me most was shortly after he was elected when he was asked if you would bring charges against the Bush administration for war crimes. Before and during Mr. Obama's campaign there had been a ground swell and a very strong movement for Bush's impeachment that reached Congress and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, read a long list of grievances against the Bush administration. But when Obama was asked the question, he said, and I loosely quote him here, "Let's move forward, and not backward." To me that was a key statement of what direction he would take his administration and it certainly would not be "away" from what was already taking place in the White House and the administration of the US government.
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