Bush-Obama v. Cheney

David Brooks makes a salient point today in his column: that the whole Obama/Cheney dust up perpetuates the idea that Obama's administration is a clean break from the Bush years, when really the late-Bush policies are very similar to the policies Obama promotes. So, when Cheney attacks Obama, he's really just reliving the battles he had with Bush when his hard-line tactics started to lose out.

This is backed up by Jack Goldsmith's TNR piece on how Obama is really just continuing Bush's later policies - except that he knows how to package them better - and treats the Americans as adults when he explains the options.