As a liberal, what bothers me most....
As a liberal, what bothers me is that every policy he's promulgated preserves the status quo ante and he's bent on "building consensus" with a bunch of Reponazis who wouldn't agree with him if he said the sky was blue and with a bunch of Blue Dogs who are only interested in making liberals dance like trained monkeys. In other words he's doing the usual liberal "Kumbaya" instead of taking a flame thrower to these people.
But as for Avedon, what he doesn't know about the UCMJ is just about everything.
A track record long as yer arm on civil rights and government law. keep to the Fen Causeway
To me, the "leftist" critiques we see of Obama only validate the total dominance of the corporatist/military-industrial ideology in the USA. If you take the position that the US government is not a representative democracy operating as it says in civics books, but is actually the usually run by dominant economic and military elites, the idea that a President could simply stamp his feet and get results seems implausible.
