Maybe he was merely paying lip service to China.

To make the hypocrisy complete, Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the occasion of this weekend when Obama was lecturing the China on openness to block the release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors. The Obama Administration is opposing free speech and good government groups in the Supreme Court who have denounced his policy of nondisclosure as a dangerous and extreme policy of government control of information.

I am not one affected by Obama and any attempts to judge him based on some cult of personality. I wanted and still want to see some action.  Action different than Bush, in fact. But there's little daylight between a number of things Bush the Lesser did and what Obama is doing.