Let's go to Salon and watch The One pretty much get a spanking.
In line with my thought, all the way around. Let's give him a "gentleman's C," shall we?
Gene Lyons kindly says many liberals made Obama a blank slate. (Not me! That's why I didn't vote for him.)
Michael Lind notes, simply, that to understand Obama's first year, you have to be shown the money — the Wall Street money Obama got in 2008.
Michaelangelo Signorile bluntly notes that Obama has blown it with gays. Couldn't agree more, and expected that, based on his and Biden's statements on the campaign trail. (Most liberals, again, especially with Obama as a minority, saw him as a hopeful blank slate on this issue.)
Don't hold your breath over DADT ending before Obama's (first?) term does.
Former Planned Parenthood head Gloria Feldt is perhaps blunter yet, citing the baseline issue as Obama's failure to lead. Agreed and agreed.
Reading between his lines, Simon Rosenberg tells Obama to be more of a neoliberal. (Geez, and who said the New Democrat Network is "progressive"?)
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