Drill, Baby, Drill! (yelps Sarah Palin, er, Barack Obama)

...more on lesser-evilism, later (and a follow up on some sage critique) - but, can anyone please explain to me the differences between the failed McCain/Palin Administration and the present Obama one?

A HuffPo link thankfully short on historical historickiness or embarrassing swooning. 

So now we've got taxpayer funded, but privately held, nuclear plants coming down the pike. We've got expanded offshore oil drilling, right after El Presidente mouths some moth eaten platitudes about climate change and greenification. We've got giant transfers of the commons to Wall Street, banks, insurance companies, pharma companies, mercenaries, defense industry behemoths and energy consortiums. We've got escalation in Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Colombia and Georgia. We've got all sorts of provocations of Iran, Syria, Hizbollah and Hamas. Plus the whole "hemming in the Russians" thing. Israel gets even more dough under the cover of "strained relations," with Americans still funding the expansion of colonial displacement of Palestinians.

We have extensions of Clinton-Bush encroachments on civil liberties, strengthening of the security state, including the Patriot Act and legal defenses of the MCA2006. We've got the continued use of the American gulag system and continued protection/coddling of admitted torturers. We've got an expanded war on drugs, with Mexico slowly edging out Colombia as the hobgoblin du jour. We've got idiot Christianists playing right into the FeeBee trap, with all sorts of police powers abused out in the open.

We've got speech de-legitimized and demonized, by kneeling admin loyalists, because the speakers happen to be ill informed political opponents with a grievance against real, distorted and imagined gubmint enemies.

Oh, how terrible, this horrible age of President McCain...