President Obama may hold the highest office in the land and he may be considered the leader of the free world, but that does not automatically translate into being all powerful. Obama has demonstrated time and again that he is very much limited by the socio economic and philosophical constraints of the empire he represents. A good example of his back peddling is that Obama, like the rest of the world, has stated on more than one ocasion his opposition and disgust of the torture and human rights abuses of the Bush/Cheney administration. But while he speaks out against the torture, the human rights abuses, GITMO and so many other illegal acts, Obama is clearly powerless to take any further steps toward bringing those responsible before a court of law to respond for their crimes. When asked about these many and continuous contradictions, Obama simply responds that he doesn't want to look toward the past but to the future and that America does not (any longer) torture. The world watches and wonders in amazement at the hypocrisy and the heightening of contradictions of a country that is so quick to recognize and condemn unlawful acts in others, while permitting its own war criminals to waltz off into plush retirement and build 100 million dollar libraries to their egos. I guess that "the good guys" always win because it's the winners who write the storied history, while the losers simply disappear into the sunset or are led to the gallows.