I mean, Mr. Hope and Change hasn’t even taken office yet and the far left-wingers are already freaking out thinking Obama might actually try to lead from the center.
In one posting that seemed to echo in the Internet community, liberal blogger Chris Bowers wrote, “I feel incredibly frustrated. … Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration? Why isn’t there a single member of Obama’s Cabinet who will be advising him from the left?”
Uh, dude, the majority of the people Obama has selected to be part of his cabinet are former members of Bill Clinton’s adminstration such as Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Larry Summers, Janet Napolitano and of course, Hillary Clinton. Last time I checked, Bill Clinton’s was a “Democratic administration”, so your statement makes absolutely no sense. And if you think they’re isn’t anyone in Obama’s cabinet leading from the left you’re not paying attention. Tom Daschle is certainly pretty far to the left on health care policy. And, driving us all into some sort of nationalized health care system is going to be one of Obama’s top priorities come January 20th.
Christopher Hayes, the Washington-based editor of The Nation, offered his own lament about a lack of progressive candidates for prominent leadership spots. He said the left has been right about Iraq, financial deregulation and global warming, and yet “no one who comes from the part of American political and intellectual life that has given birth to all of these ideas is anywhere to be found within miles of the Obama Cabinet so far.”
The left has been consistently wrong about Iraq. We’ve won the war, and will be withdrawing our troops from the country. They’ve been wrong about global warming from the start, and they’ve been wrong about financial deregulation causing our economic problems when it’s been race based financial engineering that’s been the problem, and the Democrats have fought tooth and nail to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from being regulated in the first place. These leftists are so delusional they need to be locked up for their own safety (and ours).
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