Obama's War

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Joan Walsh elucidates on last evening's "worst speech of [BO's] presidency" and the disappointment we progressives are feeling:

Obama has governed like the centrist he told us and showed us he is, from his early flip-flops on FISA to his Goldman Sachs-friendly bailout policies to compromising on the job-creation parts of his economic stimulus to his tepid backing of a health care reform public option. It's going to take hard work by activists on all of those fronts to push him to better solutions.

I suppose. But at this point, BO looks like a somewhat typical politician who is adept only at talking the talk.

Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald grasps at straws.