My apologies for the impolite term. But this below from David Sirota at Open Left is a full bore brain fart if there ever was one. Maybe Kirchick is correct in writing Obama doesn't fear the Netroots. Or maybe he just isn't seeing any of them making any sense these days.
As for me, while I'm glad to see Obama taking International affairs and potential threats seriously, the Right and Center-Right need to be careful of reading too much into that. I suspect Obama's designs for domestic policy are still going to tilt rather Left. And that is the ultimate downside for free markets and free thinking people from an administration which is still genuinely liberal at heart.
Please, don't try to claim that because the Democratic Party is supposedly "the left," that means its "center-right" is actually the "center" of American public opinion. Votes on Iraq, the bailout, FISA, deregulation, free trade, etc. etc. have shown us that the "center-right" of the Democratic Party is at least the "center-right" of America - if not the full-on right.
In terms of the New York Times story, at least we know the undeniable (if unsurprising) reality now, and can strategize around it and use the far more progressive election mandate as momentum - rather than simply pretending to live in an alternate reality.
Obama's ONE and the national security corps.
http://www.advomatic.com/node/342
Posted by: DS | Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 10:33 PM