Why is the Left Criticizing Obama?

Written By: Andrew Cline  |  Posted: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Liberals who bristle at being called socialists probably shouldn't exit the house wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. They also should avoid protesting, en masse, that President Obama, who in only one year has substantially shifted American government to the left, is too darned conservative. Both behaviors are like standing in the foxhole and screaming as loudly as you can. They tend to give away your position to the enemy.

Last week, several thousand liberal activists gathered in Washington to protest what they view as President Obama's timidity in pursuing the hard-left agenda he promised them.
"This is the greatest reform president since Lyndon Johnson, and every progressive in the movement is dismayed and disaffected, " Robert L. Borosage, the co-director of the liberal Campaign for America's Future, told the New York Times. "Some of that is expectations that were shattered."

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