Recently I've noted the "surprise" at Obama both espousing more and bigger government social programs (the Democratic party platform and way) AND retrenching individual liberties (privacy invasion via digital online data collection), which began with Bush and is part of a conservative, Republican platform to deal with terrorism. It seems that what this really is, is the march toward fascism: more government control via "needed social programs," less individual liberty in the name of security. I wish someone in the press, the NY Times, the WS Journal, or the Washington Post, would read Leonard Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels" and apply his reasoning and logic to Obama. Has any major media writer ever done that? I wonder. steve eggleston