Way back in 1971, the English rock band The Who had a hit song called “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

It was an interesting song for the times – with the air of revolution wafting through America’s campuses and streets. This was a song that said it was all futile – with the key lyric line being, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

That’s kind of how I feel about the incoming Barack Obama administration.

This is change!

This is the same old, same old.

For the most part, Barack Obama’s new prescriptions represent nothing but tired, old, discredited ideas that have failed every time they have been tried in history.

I’m not surprised. In fact, I predicted it.

I even got very specific last August 21 when I boldly proclaimed I knew who would be named defense secretary – no matter who won the election, John McCain or Obama. This week, I was proven right when it was announced Obama had picked the establishment’s guy – Robert Gates.

Obama warned that a McCain administration would be Bush III. What we got instead was Clinton-Bush VI.

How did I know?

It all began with my curiosity over a few lines in a campaign speech Obama delivered July 2 in Colorado Springs.

Here’s what he said that got my attention – and nobody else’s: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Obama never fully explained what he meant by a “civilian national security force” with a budget equaling our current Defense Department. No reporters ever bothered to ask him. But I kept poking around. I began searching that phrase. I found it had been used previously in a series of speeches by someone else…

That someone else was Robert Gates…