Audacity of Hope, or of Hype?

"I’m starting to think that Obama may yet get America’s rabid militarism under control and end the madness spawned by the Bush/Cheney administration," concludes Jeff Huber — Polish Missile Joke Revisited.

"Blessed are the peacemakers," says Lew Rockwell — Heroic Disarmament. "Obama stops building anti-missile weapons in Eastern Europe, and Russia responds by dismantling its missiles."

"Obama can appear to be stepping back from an immediate confrontation with Russia but in fact he is following the lead of the Pentagon who for some time has been saying that they must move to expand the more promising Navy Aegis-based missile defense system," suggests Bruce Gagnon — Missile Defense: The Other Story.

"For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law," says Ray McGovern — CIA Torturers Running Scared.

"The CIA-off-campus protests of the 1980s may need to be revived--this time addressed to President Obama," begins Jon Wiener — Obama's CIA-on-Campus Program.

Let us remember that Steve Sailer informs us that the president's parents "appear to have had a lot more contact with the CIA or with people in contact with the CIA than most Americans' parents have had" — The Obama family and the CIA.