Alphonse and Gaston? – Hmmm that would be the, ah, clods in the previous admin.? Here’s Jack Goldsmith – former high official in the Bush Justice Dept. – author of The Terror Presidency – on how OBama has tweaked, not transformed, the “war on terror”…

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1e733cac-c273-48e5-9140-80443ed1f5e2

Take this however – but Goldsmith sees Obama’s symbolic gestures as a tribute to his political deftness (and to the reality that certaub policies Cheney pushed for had already been repuditated). Maybe Goldsmith is all wrong, maybe Dick Cheney will turn out to be the one with the extraordinary political gifts/instincts – along with doomy prophetic powers. Btu that seems a bit of s stretch right now (unless you think the G.O.P. is doing just fine)…