Obama's first executive order issued yesterday is aimed at restoring an open government that works for all the people instead of the connected few.
Before that, just hours after taking office, Obama sent a memo halting all pending regulations Bush tried to push through at the last minute. Many of the regulatory changes are designed to help the self-interest polluters who Bush served for the last eight years.
(Obama's day one reboot screen)
Obama's executive order closing Guantanamo today makes another blanket statement:
The Order also prohibits reliance on any Department of Justice or other legal advice concerning interrogation that was issued between September 11, 2001 and January 20, 2009.No rationalization used during that dark time counts anymore. Sometimes, when there's so much wrong that you don't know where to begin, you have to press ctrl+alt+delete and start over from scratch. You might lose unsaved data but there's a lot from the past eight years we don't want to save.
I still can't believe I've been living in a country where the question of torture was up for debate. Now America can be America again.