Interesting concept. I'm sure most promises will be 'No Action' - but what is the rate at which it becomes unacceptable?

Everything's acceptable, Krem. MY GOD, did you not get the memo? Obama can do no wrong. If you disagree, you're anti-American and racist.


I'm watching you...

Everything's acceptable, Krem. MY GOD, did you not get the memo? Obama can do no wrong. If you disagree, you're anti-American and racist.

That was my biggest concern with Obama. It's not about him per se, it's about the public's willingness to fall for a cult of personality. Scary.

Though as long as he doesn't act on it, and he doesn't appear to want to, I am OK with him as president. Much better than McRobot.

During the campaign, Mr. Obama harshly criticized the Bush administration’s treatment of detainees, and he has broken with that administration on questions like whether to keep open the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But a government lawyer, Douglas N. Letter, made the same state-secrets argument on Monday, startling several judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“Is there anything material that has happened” that might have caused the Justice Department to shift its views, asked Judge Mary M. Schroeder, an appointee of President Jimmy Carter, coyly referring to the recent election.

“No, your honor,” Mr. Letter replied.

Judge Schroeder asked, “The change in administration has no bearing?”

Once more, he said, “No, Your Honor.” The position he was taking in court on behalf of the government had been “thoroughly vetted with the appropriate officials within the new administration,” and “these are the authorized positions,” he said.

The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said.

That's how I feel, too.

Though, as a planning student, I find the bailout to be a pretty damn empty promise thus far. It's so far from being a sharp as it could be (from an infrastructure upgrading perspective), and it's a little sad.