Obama vs. the Left

Behind the “dump Biden” movement: what does it all mean?

by Justin Raimondo, October 11, 2010

"It’s amazing, really, how much of a pass the left is giving President Obama as he sells out every single major platform plank that got them pumped up to begin with. Aside from his sellout on the domestic policy front, which I’ll leave to others to cavil about, on the civil liberties and foreign policy front he’s certainly taken a hard right turn. The promised reversal of Bush era civil liberties violations has itself been reversed; the pledge to get out of Iraq before 2012 turned out to be a shell game, and with the Justice Department going after antiwar activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, and North Carolina – on charges of providing material aid to terrorists – the sting of the administration’s slap to its former supporters on the left must be smarting something fierce.......

Indeed, this administration can be expected to ramp up the war effort purely on economic grounds: after all, according to Obama’s Keynesian economic advisers, government spending is the mood elevator that will snap the US economy out of its depression. According to orthodox Keynesian dogma, any kind of government spending will do: building pyramids, occupying foreign countries, dropping freshly-printed bills out of airplanes. Just keep those printing presses rolling!....."