"... America can change.
That is the true genius of this nation."
Buraq Hussein Obama, in his famous "race speech," March 2008

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061207-2.html
Natan Sharansky, May 2005:
".... In my view, the disengagement plan is a tragic mistake that will exacerbate the conflict with the Palestinians, increase terrorism, and dim the prospects of forging a genuine peace. Yet what turns this tragic mistake into a missed opportunity of historic proportions is the fact that as a result of changes in the Palestinian leadership and the firm conviction of the leader of the free world that democracy is essential to stability and peace—a conviction that is guiding America's actions in other places around the world—an unprecedented window of opportunity has opened.
Recent events across the globe, whether in former Soviet republics like Ukraine or Kyrgyzstan, or in Arab states like Lebanon and Egypt, prove again and again the ability of democratic forces to induce dramatic change. How absurd that Israel, the sole democracy in the Middle East, still refuses to believe in the power of freedom to transform our world."
If it was absurd five years ago that Israel refused "to believe in the power of freedom to transform our world," how much more absurd is it that the United States, having opened that "unprecedented window of opportunity," has now slammed it shut?
Obama talks about transformation, but it is not a transformation brought through freedom and democracy. In his worldview, the totalitarian regimes of Castro and Chavez are more appealing for their redistribution of wealth than they are abhorrent for their tyrannical oppression.
Obama's byword is "justice." Economic justice, environmental justice, racial justice, the list goes on and on. In his much-adored "race speech" in Philadelphia, Candidate Obama exhorted the duly-hyphenated African-American community to "insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life."
We should have thought, we could have known, we didn't ask. What is a "full measure"?
We should have thought, we could have known, we didn't ask... what sort of CHANGE he had in mind.
In retrospect, we should have been filled with fear and loathing when he explained:
"It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.
But it is where we start."
We should have thought, we could have known, but no one asked what, if anything, would constitute "enough." No one asked in what direction this path of change would take us, or where it might end.
I guess "Justice" sounded so good, so shiny and new, that no one remembered to ask about freedom and democracy. We were so anxious to throw out the leader of the free world, that we cast aside his firm convictions as well.
We threw out the baby with the bath water.
Much to our everlasting shame and degradation.