re: #343 EPR-radar

In my view, the two biggest mistakes of Obama’s first term were 1) not going after the banks aggressively enough, and 2) being nearly useless on the civil liberties issues raised by the response to 9/11.

Given the scope of the financial crisis, Obama seems to have figured he could go after the banks without either making things worse or expending almost all of his political capital on trying to break up the ‘too big to fail’ banks. And he would have had to expend that capital on such an effort, don’t think he wouldn’t have. He might have still tried, but then it turned out that passing his health care law turned out to require a great deal more effort than originally planned.