Why who's President does matter, example 1 of presumably thousands

Oh, I'm sure McCain would have given this due consideration:

In some instances, Obama would be quickly delivering on promises he made during his two-year campaign, while in others he would be embracing Clinton-era policies upended by President Bush during his eight years in office...

The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.

Yawn. Is that all?

The president-elect has said, for example, that he intends to quickly reverse the Bush administration's decision last December to deny California the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

Wow. It's almost as if one President enacted a bunch of policies which were politically motivated, and as if electing a President who's much closer to sharing our politics somehow leads to policies which are better! That's just weird.

(h/t Booman Tribune)