Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?

MANIFESTO

The bloggers I read are getting more and more impatient when it comes to various policies the Obamans are—or are not—effecting. Something like this isn't going to make them—or me—any less testy:

Lawyers and judges working on Guantanamo Bay legal cases are showing signs of exasperation at President Barack Obama's administration, which they accuse of slowing federal judicial procedures for detainees.

Two federal judges tasked with examining cases by five Guantanamo prisoners contesting their detention—a right to habeas corpus granted by the Supreme Court in June 2008—have made a rare public row of their impatience with government prosecutors.

The prosecutors' behavior is being called "stonewalling" at TPM and, worse, is being compared to the immoral intransigence of the Bushies.

Anecdotally, it sounds as if the bloom is off the rose for Obama and his crew: The economic recovery seems to be just another plan to placate the rich, and some odious practices of the Bushies look like they're going to be continued.