Liberals voice concerns about Obama

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Ya mean the man w ZERO experience is really just sizzle and no steak? Amazing! Whodathunkit?

Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.

Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.

Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss.

“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it’s all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.

OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

Even supporters make clear they’re on the lookout for backsliding. “There’s a concern that he keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him,” said Roger Hickey, a co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future.

Obama insists he hasn’t abandoned the goals that made him feel to some like a liberal savior. But the left’s bill of particulars against Obama is long, and growing.

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color me shocked-SHOCKED I SAY!

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Scott,

Pointing fingers at Democrats isn’t an answer to the oversight. I’m not a Democrat so find someone else to defend that point.

My opinion is that it’s been more than just lipservice that’s been forgotten in Afghanistan.

I’m trying to teach Hard Right the difference between fact and opinion.

The fact is no one mentioned Afghanistan. What that means or says about the GOP is an opinion

fit fit;
I didn’t say you were spouting radical left agenda, I was refering to your propensity during the campaign to mirror the positions on issues being set forth as the Obama-Biden platforms. Now he appears to your own party supporters as having no intention of adhere to the far left agenda he ran on by his selections of cabinet members. To which you come back with an, “I knew it all along & told you so” stance. So I accused you of back-tracking. Where in your FA posts prior to the election did you predict that he would move to the left’s version of “center” in his selection of cabinet members or on the policies after elected? In a quick review of your past posts, besides the campaign propaganda, it seemed you were more concerned with bashing Palin at every opportunity, giving us the same banal unfounded crap as the media & Daily Kos, and ignoring any positives in her political history. Then after the election you began giving the Repubs here Lib Dem recipes on how the RNC should overhaul their party to be competitive.

Then in post 43 of this thread, you follow up your feeling offended post, by citing as source a link to a story via socialist George Soros’ mouthpiece Arianna Huffington’s web-news, which turns out to be just another National Inquirer type rag opinion pieces disguised as news from Huffington’s pool of biased reporters. So which is it? If you keep throwing us garbage like that instead of something substantial and factual based, then what you donate to debate is no better than what we get from the fly-by moonbats.

Thank you BTW, in post 46 for actually providing something factual in support of one of your arguments for a change. Took me a little while to read through all the prepared speeches since I’m also in preparing for the holidays mode, yet I don’t see the failure to mention Afghanistan along with all the other serious issues being discussed as I position of non-support by the RNC for our troops. They may not always say it in words, but in deeds, Republicans seem much more likely to come out and sit down with the troops, take their pulse and actually find out what they are thinking, rather than hanging out with the officers and local officials for photo ops.

In my 21+ years of service in the USAF, I found Repubs politicians much more likely to come out to the flightline and get involved in talking to the people with the sweat on their brow. Or to come out to a hanger and mention their support, discuss issues being pursued, & goals that meant something to us, which would usually be followed by some Q&A. Hell I even got a wake-up following a night shift once by a party going room-to-room checking out our living conditions. When Dems came out, the only way you actually found out they were there was by a write-up in the base newspapers. Or perhaps once in a while you might see a convoy of staff cars cruising by.

Oh, oh, the they aren’t liking Obama’s pick, Rick Warren, to give the Invocation:

“The list of suddenly awakened and outraged Lobotobot reports is astounding. Here’s just a sample:

Todd Beeton, A Spit in the Eye.

Lisa Derrick, Oh Puke! Rick Warren to Deliver Obama Invocation, Firedoglake.

Ben Smith and Nia-Maliki Henderson, Gay leaders furious with Obama, The Politico.

Allahpundit, Rick Warren to give invocation at Obama’s inauguration; Update: Gay groups go ballistic, Hot Air.

Kevin Naff, Obama’s first big mistake, Washington Blade.

Average Gay Joe, Gay Obamaniacs just got punk’d, Gay Patriot.

John Aravosis, Rick Warren to Give Obama Invocation, Angry Left Meltdown Ensues, JammieWearingFool.

Greg Sargent, Top Liberal Group Hammers Decision For Rick Warren To Deliver Obama’s Inaugural Invocation, TPM.

Sam Stein, Rick Warren, Obama Invocation Choice, Causing First Real Rift With Progressives, HuffPo.”

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/12/18rick-warren-the-real-reason-theyre-so-surprised-is/

great post Missy-thanks

Some of that liberal tolerance at work.