Well, it's Obama as alpha male of the US. He has the office but not the power.

[Peter Lemkin]

All of Obama's appointments so far have been nauseating, but the handover of foreign policy to the pant-suited warmonger is the worst of all.

I expected little from Obama and he has not disappointed.

Myra, I think you are correct, we can be sure that for the most part the Obama Adminstration will dissappoint. He will remove some of the very aggregious actions of Bush, perhaps and they will be pointed to to divert attention from the 'all steady as she goes' with the ship of state - especially on Foreign Policy and Trickle-Up Voodoo Economics. To me the real test will be if he dares to undo the unPatriot Act and all of its follow-on legislation. Don't hold one's breath. Those who could make real change were weeded-out long ago in the process and not allowed to even run [really] - even for Congress. We got the better of the bad. Now that we've broken the color barrier to the top office, I wonder if we can break the hold-fast of the Corporately MIMTC-owned crowd. Hey, I've got a great new idea - what about democracy?! Nah...