Barack Obama is not who we thought he was

I apologize right off the bat. It might be because I haven’t had enough coffee today, or because I was up late reading govt rpts that even the govt does not like to read. One way or the other, I’m yawning at this: The faux progressive left is whining that Barack Obama is not who they thought he was. Yes, feel free to yawn.

It was not the Democratic base, nor the centrists, nor even the center-left, who put Obama where he is today. The progressive movement rose from near death and kept Obama alive in the primary, eventually proving stubborn enough to carry him to victory over the Establishment candidate. And then, in the general election, it was the progressives whose energy infected the nation, whose enthusiasm reminded longtime vote-the-ticket Dems that elections were about the future, and whose contributions, tiny as each individual one was, funded the revolution of Change that swept Obama into the Oval Office.

Now is the time to hold him accountable — even before he takes the oath of office — because once he’s in there, he will be surrounded by the trappings of Power, the machinery of State, and the inertia of Bureaucracy. If we are to reach him, we must act quickly. Though he has shown us that he is not who we thought he was (for the record, we did know he wasn’t the Messiah), he has also, fortunately, shown us the way to keeping him — and our country — on the right track.

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Color me less than surprised. Not a day goes by where we writers and readers here at FA haven’t noticed the growing gap between Presidential candidate Obama and President Elect Obama. Those on the right cannot help themselves in saying, “We friggin’ told you!” While supporters of The One still cling to the pattern of dealing w political grief: denial, anger, excuses, depression, and then acceptance.

Yesterday really should go down in the history of Barack Obama’s powerquest as the turning point where the people should have finally figured out the Emperor has no clothes, no substance, no flavor, and has just been sizzle not steak. The NYT reported (again) that the Democratic Party’s draw issue (Iraq) was just a lie that their base bought wholesale yet again, and those 16-months to end the war were just empty promises. We also found out that Pastor Rick Warren’s gonna be giving the invocation at the inauguration…re-emphasizing that Obama doesn’t support the progressive’s second big draw issue: gay marriage (in fact, he opposes it).

The piece linked to above is well-worth a read for supporters and opponents of Obama will find it interesting, and imo on the mark.

With that, I say, “We friggin’ told you!” OH! And read the comments to the article too. They’re pretty interesting.