I've seen a lot of diaries on the subject over the past few months -- I quit reading most of them long ago, although I'll occasionally read a diarist I like, however much I may disagree with them on this issue.
To all those diarists I'd like to say something.
I'm sorry you're disappointed with Barack Obama, sorry you're frustrated and fed up and feeling betrayed.
Listen. I don't know what you were expecting when you voted for him, but I really wish you'd asked me first. He was my Senator. I could have told you -- he really IS a centrist. He really IS the bi-partisan Boy Scout. He supports capitalism and free markets -- you'll get a few regulatory restraints, but he ain't gonna be ushering in any socialist workers' paradise.
I made my deal with the devil. Once the windmill thrashed Kucinich, I threw my support to Obama and didn't look back. Do I wish he was a better Progressive? Absolutely. But he isn't, and he never was, and despite all the calculated campaign vagueness full of blanks for you to fill in with whatever hopes and dreams you harbored, he never claimed to be. So deal with it.
But I'll tell you another f*cking President I didn't have much use for.
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