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?”
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The progressives are playing with fire. It's perfectly clear to me that Tim Carpenter's criticism smack of haughty racism! "How dare a black man think he represents true progressivism?" is what he's essentially wondering.
What will be interesting to see is if critics on Obama's left still reactively insinuate his critics on the right are racists for criticizing him, while maintaining of course that they are not.
If history is any indicator then I think that the Left will continue playing the race card against conservatives as long as it is effective. After all, McCain refused to use Obama's connections to Jeremiah Wright for fear of looking racist. Why would the Left give up a valuable weapon like that. The Left may be hypocritical but they aren't stupid.
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