ONLY THE LEFT NEEDS THE APOLOGY:

Why Obama owes Bush an apology (Clive Crook, May 24 2009, Financial Times)

The left’s complaints make far more sense than Mr Cheney’s. Mr Obama is adjusting the Bush administration’s policies here and there and seeks to put them on a sounder legal footing. This recalibration is significant and wise, but it is by no means the entirely new approach that he led everybody to expect.

Mr Obama is in the right, in my view, but he owes his supporters an apology for misleading them. He also owes George W. Bush an apology for saying that the last administration’s thinking was an affront to US values, whereas his own policies would be entirely consonant with them. In office he has found that the issue is more complicated. If he was surprised, he should not have been.

W never took him seriously.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 25, 2009 7:27 AM