Well, slightly different approach than Bush, but end product of tyranny is still the goal ...

... Here, then, is a man who considers torturing a kid barely past his youth for an alleged crime whose principal result to-date has been an acute case of The Embarrassments, more important, more pressing, and more necessary than the public maintenance of his own image as a moderate reformer and as a conciliator. ...

... He does not delight in cruelty like his predecessor, but is grossly indifferent to it. ...

Obama, the hollow man ...