He has record, and there’s nothing to indicate he will take on the corporations, but we’ll, unfortunately, have to wait and see what happens.

Yeah, his creative team is not exactly a “next of liberals and anarchists”, but thinking Peggy Noonan can write is a bit extreme.

among other things of course, i have to hope that adam frankel [another of obama’s speechwriters] is wrong about the 20-somethings.

given the speechwriting team that obama ended up with, it’s easy to see why he appealed so strongly to the demographic he did [young, male, too kewl to belong to any party], but i’m cynical enough to believe he’s just as likely to throw them under the bus as any of his other supporters.

his track record is that of someone who will give lip service to the little people while actually siding with the corporations, and i don’t expect him to move to the left of that, certainly not on his own. but if there’s any way to push/pull/jerk/shove him to the left at all, i think that’s the chink in the armor to go after.

plan b, runnung concurrently with plan a as outlined above, is to keep driving my elderly clunker, spewing plenty of carbon dioxide into the air in an effort to raise canada’s temperatures enough so i can stand to live there.

i still think obama would truly like to go down in history as the next fdr, and i’m positive that his ego is big enough that this could be a good leverage point. getting my lefty hands on the other end of that lever is going to be hard part.

I am unsurprised by Obama’s announcements to this point. I did not expect a liberal administration, and we’re not getting one. So be it. IMHO, a competent Chicago machine politician like Obama is so highly likely to be vastly preferable to the Bush clown act that I cheerfully voted for Obama, eyes wide open. (Badtux describes the phenomenon well in a thread downstream.)

I don’t expect anything from these people, so I won’t be disappointed. I didn’t vote for them because they aren’t progressive, so all I can do is watch all those who deceived themselves figure it out.

not that anybody there seems to be listening, but that’s never been enough to stop me from sharing my opinions before.

I thought for a while the Hedgemony was going to actually start a war with Canada over lumber, but that seems to have calmed down.

Apparently we aren’t supposed to be negative until we can prove in court that the next administration will be a center right government.

oh well, best-laid plans of mice, men, and bloggers gang aft agley. otoh, if their govt stays dlc-ish enough, maybe they’ll be able to convince obama of the merits of single payer. that only seems like a fair exchange in return for austan goolsbee, dlc economist and obama advisor, earlier assuring canada that we didn’t really mean it about nafta.