The nation and world let out a long, pent up sigh this week as Bush and Cheney finally walked, and symbolically wheeled, off the stage. Since shedding Elect from his title, President Obama glows in stratospheric mid-70s approval ratings but the intensifying and fierce Bush era storms he inherits do not provide him the luxury of taking stock. Instead, he is taking action.
On that first day when we awoke feeling a profound weight lifted from our collective shoulders, Obama immediately moved to shutter Guantanamo, re-defined torture, instituted new government transparency rules, and suspended pending Bush regulation changes. With each Executive signing, Obama literally began writing the Bush legacy into the history books.
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