"I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11"
(Barack Obama in un'intervista a Katie Couric, l'altro ieri sera)

"Nonostante i suoi continui omaggi al multilateralismo, Obama è stato fin qui altrettanto unilateralista del suo predecessore Bush"
(Angelo Panebianco, Corriere della Sera di oggi. Avvertire Franco Venturini)

"Conventional American leadership, it is now evident, is as unwelcome in the person of Barack Obama as in George W. Bush".
(Nader Mousavizadeh, Newsweek)

"From indefinite detention and renditions to denial of habeas rights, from military commissions and secrecy obsessions to state secrets abuses, many of the defining Bush/Cheney policies continue unabated under its successor administration".
(Glenn Greenwald, Salon)

"The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba"
(New York Times, 22 gennaio 2010)

"George W. Obama"
(Titolo dell'articolo di Nat Hentoff nientedimeno che sul Village Voice)

"Why Obama Has Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions"
(Titolo di un ottimo servizio esplicativo di Time magazine)

"The party that urged the Supreme Court not to grant the victims’ appeal because the illegality of torture was not “clearly established” was the Obama Justice Department".
(Editoriale del New York Times)

"HAVANA — The Obama honeymoon here is over (...)
Mr. Obama, whose election was broadly celebrated by Cuba’s racially diverse population, is now being portrayed by this nation’s leaders as an imperialistic, warmongering Cuba hater".
(New York Times di oggi)

In Afghanistan bruciano le immagini di un presidente americano, accusato di crimini di guerra. No, non Bush. Quell'altro, quello che ha vinto il Nobel per la pace

"We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists"
(Barack Obama, ieri)

"And this is the critical distinction between Bush and Obama: Obama is far more conservative than his predecessor"
(Andrew Sullivan)

"I have no idea what his thinking is. Something happens when you become president. They give you the plane, they give you the helicopter, everywhere you go they play "Hail to the Chief." You get your ass kissed 24 hours a day. You think that America can do anything".
(Bill Maher, intervistato su Newsweek)

"Seven months after President Obama vowed to "personally select" an adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House will name a former Bush administration official to the job Tuesday.
Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's White House, will be Obama's new cybersecurity coordinator".
(Washington Post)