Left Have Buyer’s Remorse on Obama…
Posted on December 8, 2008
….because he isn’t as far left as they hoped!
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.
Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.
Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss.
“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it’s all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.
OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”
Even supporters make clear they’re on the lookout for backsliding. “There’s a concern that he keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him,” said Roger Hickey, a co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future.
Obama insists he hasn’t abandoned the goals that made him feel to some like a liberal savior. But the lefts’ bill of particulars against Obama is long, and growing.
How entertaining! I hope the right was fooled too, and that Obama isn’t really as liberal and socialist as we all thought. I’m not getting my hopes too high though.
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I’ve not checked nor do I wish to check, but have the Kos Kids and Huffington Posters started throwing Obama under the bus yet?
Truth is, I’m not that surprised. Obama probably still wants to get elected to a second term. I know its a bit early, but I have a feeling that realizes that he can’t do everything he wants, without committing political suicide.
Who are the moderates he has appointed? Certainly not Rahm, Hillary,Bill Richardson, Cecilia Muñoz, Eric Holder? How about the other what, 30 former Clinton administration stooges? They were leftists, but not [edited] crazy leftists.
I’ll give you Robert Gates and Retired Gen. Jim Jones. I’m betting obama picked them because if we are attacked on his watch he knows he won’t get re-elected.