Another assault on Obama from the Left.

For the past few days I have been hammering at the disappointment the "whole foods nation" is going to experience with a President Obama. I am in now in good company. Alexander Cockburn is a died in the wool progressive. In The Nation he hammers at Obama and the foolish "liberals" who have guzzled the kool aid.

Obama's liberal defenders comfort themselves with the thought that "he had to say that to get elected". He did not.

After eight years of unrelenting assault on constitutional liberties by Bush and Cheney, public and judicial enthusiasm for tyranny has waned. Obama has preferred to stand with Bush and Cheney. In February, seeking a liberal profile in the primaries, Obama stood against warrantless wiretapping. His support for liberty did not survive for long...

As a political organiser of his own advancement, Obama is a wonder. But I have yet to identify a single uplifting intention to which he has remained constant if it has presented any risk to his progress.

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