I found another part of Obama’s acceptance speech last night that I’m confused about.

At a rally Thursday as audacious in scale as it was in significance, Obama offered his candidacy as an antidote to the “broken politics in Washington,” and repeatedly drew contrasts with Republican John McCain, describing him as an extension of President Bush and calling on the country to say: “Eight is enough.”

“America, we are better than these last eight years,” said Obama, 47, a first-term Democratic senator from Illinois. “We are a better country than this.”

I find it interesting that Obama limited his criticism of America to just the last eight years.  You’d think that a change candidate, a hope candidate, would maybe want to include the Clinton regime in his criticism.  After eight years of Whitewater, FBI files, Travelgate, Monica Lewinsky and all the other scandals and legal problems the Clintons got themselves into the Bush administration (as imperfect as it has been) was like a breath of fresh air.

When Obama says that America is a better country than what we have right now he’s not wrong.  Bush, though I’ve supported him in general on big issues, hasn’t been that great of a President.  Neither was Bill Clinton or Bush Sr. before him.  America can be better than what it is now, but is Obama who can apparently only see Republican wrong-doing but not Democrat wrong-doing really the guy who can change things?

Obama says he’s a “new politics” candidate but his transparently partisan knock on his own country proves otherwise.  Obama isn’t change.  He’s partisan liberal politics as usual.