Once again, President Obama is backing policy from the Bush administration. The AP reported on friday, “The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.”

Ed Morrissey writes:

The exact quote from the Barack Obama-era Department of Justice? “Having considered the matter, the government adheres to its previously articulated position.” The DoJ and the DoD consider Bagram detainees “unlawful combatants” without any rights to access the US court system and with no recourse for release.

Just as it did in the George Bush administration. Remember how the Left considered Bush a war criminal for taking this exact position? I’d like to see how they square the circle with Obama now. A few like Glenn Greenwald will rip Obama on principle, but the rest will suddenly discover the reasonableness of detaining terrorists and treating them not like burglars but like enemy combatants who have themselves violated Geneva Conventions through their terrorism.

Just as we did in the George Bush administration.

All statements from Barack Obama come with expiration dates. That’s something that the HopeandChangizoids have begun to learn just a month after the dawning of the Age of Obama. A lot of them owe Bush — and us — apologies.

It’s amusing to read the reaction of Obama’s followers over at the DU. It’s as if their world is coming to an end.

Anyone who closely listened to President Obama’s speech yesterday afternoon heard something strangely similar to President Bush.

The Daily Show picked up on it, and had a lot of fun at the President’s expense:

Will Obama’s followers call for his head like that did President Bush’s?

Lets begin…

• Democrat Charlie Rangel’s tax fraud
• Indicted Democrat William “Frozen Cash” Jefferson loses reelection bid
• President-elect Obama’s chief speechwriter Jon Favreau assaults Senator Clinton poster
• Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich tries to sell Obama’s empty Senate seat
• President-elect Obama lies about ever talking to Blagojevich about Senate seat.

Today were going to focus on the good, the bad and the ugly from CNN’s Journalism department. 

The Good – CNN’s Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston show us, the newly elected Democrats in congress are already being taught to kiss the hands that feed them. 

“New Congress members meet big-money donors

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Before being sworn in or casting their first votes, some newly elected members of Congress were introduced Wednesday to another hallmark of life on Capitol Hill — the big-ticket reception for big-money donors…

The following are the 22 Democrats newly elected to Congress and one Democratic candidate honored at Wednesday’s reception. (It is unknown whether all of the honorees attended the reception.)

John Adler (New Jersey, 3rd District) 
Bobby Bright (Alabama, 2nd District)
Paul Carmouche (Louisiana, 4th District. Facing Dec. 6 election vs. Republican nominee)
Kathy Dahlkemper (Pennsylvania, 3rd District)
Alan Grayson (Florida, 8th District)
Parker Griffith (Alabama, 5th District)
Martin Heinrich (New Mexico, 1st District)
Jim Himes (Connecticut, 4th District)
Ann Kirkpatrick (Arizona, 1st District)
Larry Kissell (North Carolina, 8th District)
Suzanne Kosmas (Florida, 24th District)
Frank Kratovil (Maryland, 1st District)
Ben Ray Lujan (New Mexico, 3rd District)
Betsy Markey (Colorado, 4th District)
Eric Massa (New York, 29th District)
Walt Minnick (Idaho, 1st District)
Glenn Nye (Virginia, 2nd District)
Tom Perriello (Virginia, 5th District)
Gary Peters (Michigan, 9th District)
Chellie Pingree (Maine, 1st District)
Mark Schauer (Michigan, 7th District)
Kurt Schrader (Oregon, 5th District)
Harry Teague (New Mexico, 2nd District)

From How Obama Got Elected:

On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama’s limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States. For many of these Americans, the explanation was rather simple… the news media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job.

On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.

Zogby called 512 Obama Voters between 11/13/08-11/15/08 with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 points

• 97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
• Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

1. 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
2. 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
3. 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
4. 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
5. 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet…..

1. Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
2. Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
3. And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
4. Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
5. Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey

Radley Balko, from Reason.com had an intretsting article:

“My policy disagreements with Obama aside, last night was of course a historic chapter in America’s long and sordid history of race relations.  Unfortunately, another civil rights issue — gay marriage — went down to sweeping defeat. In California, the Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage actually failed among white voters, 51-49.  It was the 70 percent support from black voters that put the measure over the top.” 

Seven out of ten black voters supported prop 8. However, liberals are angry as hell at the Mormon Church and calling for boycotts of Mormon owned businesses. Their displaced anger is pretty funny. 

Limbaugh added:

“If you look at Florida’s ban on gay marriage would have passed among white voters 60-40, but in Florida, black voters approved a ban on gay marriage by a vote of 71 to 29. So black voters in Florida discriminated against gays and lesbians, and black voters in California discriminated against gays and lesbians.  In Arizona, the exit polling data not yet complete, but they banned gay marriage in Arizona, 56% of the vote, 55% from white and Latino voters. “So it seems likely that blacks were more enthusiastic about banning gay marriage than other ethnicities in that state, too.”  Well, Obama said he was against gay marriage, but there was a caveat, he then added he doesn’t think tampering with the Constitution for things like civil rights is a good idea, or some such thing.  He just hedged his bets.  He said one thing and then said another. 

But here’s the irony.  Ladies and gentlemen, this is why I am your host.  The irony in helping achieve one civil rights milestone leads to the defeat of another.  I’m not laughing about it, but still.  Last night’s historic black turnout helped perpetuate state sanctioned discrimination against gay couples that want to marry. What? Snerdley? I didn’t say state-sanctioned discrimination.  It’s what happened.  It’s not wrong terminology, it’s what the hell happened out there.  Don’t you find it ironic that on the night one great civil rights achievement took place that very achievement led to the defeat of another?

Video - The Daily Show Jon Stewart On Prop 8 Passage

The wacky morning show, Bob and Mark from 106.5 in Alaska scored the first post election interview with… Piper Palin. 

President Piper? “That’d be awesome!”

Exit polling showed the mere fact Barack Obama was black played a huge role in his victory. Byron York reports:

“The exit polls suggest that race was a factor in a lot of voters’ decisions — and that, on balance, it worked to Barack Obama’s advantage.  In Ohio, for example, six percent of voters said that race was the most important factor in their decision.  Among them, Obama won 59-40.  Another 13 percent said race was an important factor in their vote, and Obama won among them, 52-46.  So nearly one in five voters said race was an important part of their decision, and more of them voted for Obama than McCain.”

Millions of black and white voters choose Barack Obama simply because he was a black man. This goes against everything Martin Luther King dreamed.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

America did not judge the content of Obama’s character, because if they did, they would have found a man who voted against saving a babies life after a failed abortion attempt. They would have found a man who sat in a church and listened to his hate filled pastor and mentor spew vile rhetoric. They would found  man who started his career in the home of an american terrorist, who bombed the pentagon and wished he could have done more. 

I’m sure Martin Luther King looked down from heaven with saddness when Barack Obama was elected. It may seem like we’ve come so far as a nation, but really we just did the the complete reverse of Dr. King’s dream.

The victories last night were almost unnoticeable. However, there were a handful:

Senate

• The Democrats did not get 60 Senators. This means they don’t have a blank slate, the GOP can keep them in check, if they choose to do.
• Alaska Senator Stevens won but he will have to resign when he is sent to jail, which means Gov, Palin will choose the replacement.
• Senator Norm Coleman beat liberal loon Al Franken in Minnesota.
• Senator Gordon Smith keeps his seat in a tough and liberal Oregon.

House of Representatives

• Rep. Michele Bachmann won last night, after the Democrats poured hundreds of thousands of dollars in to her opponents campaign trying to beat her. 
• Tom Rooney beat Rep. Tim Mahoney in FL’s 16th.
• Rep. John Shadegg won easily in Arizona after the Democrats dumped millions of dollars there trying to beat him.
• RINO Rep. Chris Shays is gone.
• Bill Cassidy won back the Baton Rouge seat, the Democrats stole earlier in the year.

Ballot Measures

• Arizona bans gay marriage
• California bans gay marriage
• Florida bans gay marriage
• Nebraska ends ‘Affirmative Action’

It’s really over. Senator McCain has called President-Elect Obama and congratulated him on his victory. It was a wonderful speech, its time to move forward. There will be plenty of time in the days ahead to talk about the mistakes the GOP made.