GOOSE AND GANDER, DEEDLE AND DUM

Democrat Barack Obama is about to acquire all the omnipotent powers that conservatives relinquished to President Bush as part of his “war on terrorism.”

The power to

• arrest people, including Americans, as “enemy combatants.”

• Indefinite detention.

• Torture.

• Isolation and sensory deprivation.

• Rendition.

• Military tribunals.

• Denial of due process and trial by jury.

• Suspension of habeas corpus.

• Secret judicial proceedings.

• Use of hearsay and tortured testimony.

• Warrantless searches. '

• Signing statements.

• Spying on Americans. '

• The power to ignore constitutional and statutory constraints on presidential power.

• The power to invade and occupy foreign countries with no congressional declaration of war.

President Obama, the man they are convinced is coming to

• take away their guns,

• increase their taxes,

• spend more money than even President Bush,

• has ties to terrorists,

• has a Muslim name, and is

• friends with a radical Christian preacher,

will wield all the same dictatorial powers that they relinquished to President Bush.