Shackled to our past

Obama wants to put the Bush mess behind him. It isn't working. New revelations keep dribbling out, pushing Obama's efforts off the front page and off the Congressional agenda. And the Bush mess will continue to do so until there is complete transparency and accountability. Obama and popular wisdom say that we can simply move on. We can be free of our past. Nope. Until that accountability happens we are shackled to our past. My personal fear is that Obama will copy President Ford's pardon of Nixon in an attempt to close off the past. There are many who believe that act essentially gave Bush a get-out-of-jail-free card and led us into his mess.