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MikeWe liberals have continued to be disappointed by Barack Obama. Sure, there were signs during the campaign that he would not be as liberal as we hoped, but we could still hold out hope that he would veer more to the left after the election was over and he was no longer tied to centrist (and even right-wing) voters. Unfortunately, that has not happened. If anything, he has veered more to the right. (e.g., no change on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” failing to put in place any meaningful controls on the obscenities of the financial industry, refusing to take the Bush administration to task for their unlawful transgressions, leaving troops in Iraq.) Now, we have the almost certain disaster of the escalation in Afghanistan.
This cartoon from Tom Toles, the always wonderful cartoonist of the Washington Post, kind of says it all for me.
Tom Toles (Washington Post 12/2/09)
I still have (some) hope that he can turn things around, but I’m afraid he might come to be known as the “war president”–just like Bush.
Filed under: Politics Tagged: | Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Tom Toles
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