Monday, December 08, 2008

Liberals Angry With Obama

I've been waiting to see this sentiment in print.

Liberals voice concerns about Obama

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.

As conservatives have been skeptically approving of many of Obama's picks so far, it has to have had the opposite effect on leftwingers anxious to tear down any and every George W. Bush policy. But it would simply be foolish for Barack Obama to run into the White House and abruptly change every policy on the books, from domestic to foreign to military. And as much as I dislike Obama, he's not that foolish.

Perhaps it's been his seat at the table, so to speak, for the daily security briefings, where he's learned things that the public doesn't know. Perhaps it's recognizing his lack of experience governing and leading, which causes him to pick cabinet staff who have been there and done that...meaning old Clinton era people. Or perhaps it is Obama's way of trying to reassure the populace that he isn't a radical bent on destroying the United States. Regardless, Obama does seem to be cautious in his picks so far.

Still, Teh One hasn't even taken the oath of office yet. It seems to me that embracing him as either Satan or the Lightworker was always a bit foolish, but there's no doubt he will make some disasterous decisions...and some good ones.

The amusing part is watching the moonbats froth at the mouth and sputter about Obama's backsliding. At best, Obama's carefully crafted history reveals an opportunistic shyster with few, if any, guiding principles. When he swung from left to center after winning the Democratic presidential nomination, what were these people thinking? Were they really so stupid that they didn't recognize he was lying either before or after winning the nomination? And what did they think would happen, since they were so willing to accept his flip-flops all summer?