...Obama is discoving that being president might very well mean acting in ways he has criticized in the past...even like the dreaded George Bush.
Take, for example, the issue of "transparency" something Obama promised would characterize his presidency. Well, in the article below, the author gives him an "F" by not disclosing, as he promised, all the meetings he would have during the transition: http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1352924,CST-NWS-sweet29.article Frank Rich had an article in the New York Times a few days ago in which he wrote that "...for the first time a faint tinge of Bush crept into my Obama reveries this month". See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1 When asked during the campaign whether Obama was ready to become president, Bill Clinton said that "no one is ready to be president".