The last 8 years only prove that the next President will just get away with outright murder. Obama? McCain? It doesn't matter who it is ... as long as the goal is killing, then that person will be forgiven anything he does.
Within 8 years, states will start passing laws authorizing SWAT teams to conduct no-knock and no-warrant searches of U.S. homes -- which will largely be nationalized under a cabinet-level National Housing Administration, anyway. The public will take all those government grants and such, thereby giving up their right to private property and all that that entails as civil rights.