>This simply isn't true. Obama ran on being Bush's third and fourth terms and that's what we got. No, he ran on the exact opposite - being the anti-Bush. Mayb

>This simply isn't true. Obama ran on being Bush's third and fourth terms and that's what we got. No, he ran on the exact opposite - being the anti-Bush. Maybe you saw through that are remembering what you perceived instead. And there's no "hidden power" in so far as the Federal bureaucracy is anything but hidden. Secretive maybe, but not hidden. >If anything we need a stronger and more professional bureaucracy that's less eager to help the President break the law. Agreed. That would be ideal. There are elements of it, but it's not universal.