OK, NOT ALL U.S. LIBERALS

Pres, Obama's continuation and defense of the Bush Security State is perhaps the worst failing of his presidency.   Unlike our economic problems, these violations of human rights will probably last for decades and there is a good chance they will get worse over time.

Miranda is Obama's latest victim
By Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 10:25 ET
SALON

The number of instances in which Obama has violently breached his own alleged principles when it comes to the War on Terror and the rule of law are too numerous to chronicle in one place. Suffice to say, it is no longer provocative or controversial when someone like Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin writes, as he did the other day, that Obama "has more or less systematically adopted policies consistent with the second term of the George W. Bush Administration."