You forgot Rumsfeld.

If Obama delivers a gung ho, pro working class speech this week, I apologize for what is to follow. Obama is a total artifice, a corporat shill wrapped in different corlored skin than the usual white, but a corporate boot licker nonetheless. Since in office, he has widened the war in Afghanistan and allowed it to spill over into Pakistan; renditions are still ongoing and he is following Bush's lead in creating a new class of laws and courts for those held in our various detention centers around the world and now we have this incredible "mishandling" of health care reform. Please. No leader and his political party, ostensibly in favor of the public option which the majority of the public still favors, could possibly have lost so much ground to a disgraced opposition if they truly wanted it to be a part of reform. No way. We are supposed to belive he truly felt the Repubs would negotiate honestly about this or any other topic. Really? Based on what previous Repub behavior? No man could achieve such high office and be that naive. This whole health care fiasco has been carefully orchestrated to present the following: We poor Dems really wanted to do the right thing but those darn Repubs held too many cards and this is the best we could do. Bullshit. Both parties, with the exception of progressive Dems, are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporate America and they see it as their duty to further enrich these corporate thugs. This little Kabuki will continue until the American people wake up and tell both parties to get lost, or, more likely, this nation collapses under the weight of it's disfunctional government. Obama supporters( I voted and contributed$$ to his candidacy) keep looking past the inside the Beltway, corporate oriented people he chose for his Administration, saying he's using them to make his "change" ideas palatable to the rest of the D.C. power brokers despite the exact opposite happening; he's totally a part of the in crowd and always has been. Prove me wrong, Mr President; get us out of Iraq, Afganistan, cut our military spending, rewrite NAFTA, regulate Wall Street with real reform and provide all Americans with cradle to grave health care, or at least try. Ain't gonna happen.

I like your idea about Bush Cheney... but your forgetting a HUGE point, Obama became a war criminal himself by ordering attacks in Pakistan on his 3rd day in office. No way is he going to go after these guys when he is guilty of crimes himself according to international law.