About a week into the Obama Administration this was predictable. Obama held some hope because he wasn't John McCain or Hillary Clinton. The Clintons were DLC Democrats and so, it appears, is Obama.
The key to Obama was his flipflop on the FISA bill in 2008. It showed his fealty to the intelligence services.
In fact, I don't think that true progressive politics can ever get a foothold in American politics. One day I'll write a mega-explanation of how the system is rigged to keep progressive politics out of power and how the system exploits fear and bigotry to keep the white hoi polloi nervous and angry. When a significant percentage of white Americans think that Obama is a Kenyan muslim who is trying to destroy America we are in deep doodoo. Utterly predictable.
But at least it looks like California went Dem.
This was the wrong year to stop drinking.
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