From this article in the Washington Post:
This Wasn't Quite the Change We PicturedThe One is already disappointing his supporters, and he has hasn't even taken the Oath of Office yet.
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It's no surprise that many progressives are -- depending on whom you ask -- disappointed, irritated or fit to be tied. Sure, Obama's appointments do represent change -- that is, change from the widely unpopular Bush-Cheney status quo. But do these appointments amount to the kind of change that progressives, who were an essential part of Obama's political base during the campaign, can really believe in?
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"I feel incredibly frustrated," OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers exclaimed. "Even after two landslide elections in a row, are our only governing options as a nation either all right-wing Republicans, or a centrist mixture of Democrats and Republicans? Isn't there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?" And he asks, "Why isn't there a single member of Obama's cabinet who will be advising him from the left?" Writers at the Nation have decried Obama's national security team as a "kettle of hawks," denounced his economic aides as acolytes of "recycled Clintonism" who fancy "straight-up neoliberal deference to the market," and assailed the retaining of Gates as a move that "has a dispiriting, stay-the-course feel to it."...
Maybe there is hope after all! The left eats their own with regularity.
Hopenchange turns out to be a scam -- Who knew.
ReplyDeleteThe 2008 election proved it's real easy to make idiot voters out of ignorant people. Watch the videos of Obama voters for details. Where's my free gas and mortgage money.