President Obama's Orwellian, Bushite war is peace speech in Oslo was more proof that his presidency has been nothing but a reversion to his true self....a Democrat In Name Only.

From his choice of DINO Clintonites like Rahm Emanuel to his GOP like Wall Streeter economic team to much of his cabinet, his wrongheaded foreign policies from Honduras to Afghanistan; following Bush policies like protecting torturers and hiding behind state secrets; backing a constitutionally questionable Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act that should never have been passed; promoting a deliberately weak stimulus while using lame excuses not to strongly and effectively directly tackle the unemployment crisis; protecting and continuing Bush's bail out of a corrupt and crooked Wall Street; retreating rather than leading, like LBJ, on health care reform, etc., etc., etc.

It has been clear to many and now should be to most that there is another Dubya/Hoover, not an FDR, in the White House.

How else to explain the following:

In McClatchy Newspapers: "....GOP loved Obama's Nobel speech." 

Or as Ken Sliverstein wrote at Harper's: "This Can't Be Good: Robert Kagan loved the Nobel speech....Robert Kagan, one of the intellectual architects of the Iraq War, is swooning over Obama’s speech. That’s scary..."

James Galloway at McClatchy put it this way (I've taken the liberty to edit a bit):

"So the war that should have ended in 2003 will only grow larger, deadlier and more costly as 2010 dawns. Once again we find ourselves wading into the quicksand of a war in the wrong place, against the wrong enemy, with the wrong locals as our putative allies, and no hope in Hell of even defining what victory would be in that place, much less winning such a victory.

"This is what happens when a politician sets out to reach a compromise instead of a right decision. He can chew it over for three months and listen to every possible argument pro and con, but in the end he is going to cut the baby in half and call it a compromise.

"So now the eight-year war will drag on without end and the number of fresh marble markers in the West Point Cemetery will grow. We have sown the seeds of war and we will reap a harvest of tombstones and grief.

"The new President was right to choose West Point as the venue for his speech. [....escalating the war in Afghanistan, adding another 30,000 American troops to the nearly 70,000 already there.]  But it would have been better if he'd chosen to deliver it in the cemetery instead of Eisenhower Hall.

"Then he jetted off to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. Lord help us. I would blush for him and for us, if it weren't for the precedent. A Peace Prize for a leader who escalated a war? Ah well, remember? They gave the same Prize to Henry Kissinger, so peaceful a leader that he bears responsibility for the butchering of two or three or maybe four million human beings in Cambodia and Vietnam and Laos."