never, never, never in the history of Earth,  sitting Empire hasdecided to stop torturing. The US has tortured, finance killers, and launch mass killings for the benefit of a single company. Now, Obama is withdrawing from Iran, not supporting an Honduras coup, beign reasonable on Iran, engaging Russia.. so I am going to be very easy on him about infinite detention policy becasue this is something the CIA has done all along the way.

The only thing I would be worried about is massive intelligence gathering.. it never existed before, now it is possible to do... will the state hear everything we say?.. probably .. anf Obama is not going to stopthat, so shame on him on that, but compared with the 60's or 80's or W Bush.. this is heaven.

-And on national policy I think he is going to get heaath care right.. and the left senses it...And I really think this is what prevents the left from launching a massive assault against him. The american left is not so engaged with global warming... so it is strange that a not-very-bad-bill on global warming is better than nothing for them.. becasue eventually it is up to the people to decide if it worthy to update it... The framework against global warming will be there and ready to be strengthened whenever the electric and wind lobby can beat completley the oil lobby.

And finally, the only real reason to be tough on Obama is economics... And that's where the american left is firing constantly... economists, left-wing are the only realible source of cosntant denigration , from Krugman to the Daily kos, from De-Long to the washinton post...a new 1 trillion government spending package now!! it is the fact that he is not listening to the ones that matter here that has the americna left angry... and here it is where people on the left are really being tough.. Obama is playing with its presidency..

In other words, I think the left lobby is acting very smartly, they are doing what I think they should do. Be with him on health care, not get angry for a mild global-wartming bill, support him on torture and foreign policy, make a small fuss about intelligence gathering and cry hell only about his center-right economic policies...in other times center-right economic polciies are fine.. not now.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude