little weasel dick. He is the one who compared Hillary Clinton to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. The mainstream press do their masters' bidding and go after the Democrats and protect the Republicans. After all, if the press went after the Republicans they might have to get real jobs, do real work, hard work, for a living.

are failing. Not because they aren't smart or mostly, modestly decent, but because they have tied themselves to the establishment: the press establishment, the financial establishment, and the political establishment. They wanted too much to be "in." And, frankly, they are only slightly left of center establishment types.

Obama. however, ran as an outsider, a man not charmed by or indebted to the establishment. But he wanted to be the leader of that establishment, admired by and head of that establishment. When he won, he promptly surrounded himself with establishment figures and took establishment positions.

Any unbiased reading of his books, his political history, and his platform saw that, but too many democrats and independents wanted to fall in love, and like any suitor Obama dressed up for the objects of his affections. And like most suitors, once the wedding was over he quickly reverted to his true self.

Now we are left with an establishment figure in a country that is profoundly anti-establishment. If the rest of the establishment Democrats don't realize that we are all screwed because a Republican take-over will doom health care, doom the environment, doom social security, and doom Medicare and in so doing doom all of us.

Obama and his men are not man enough to fight the establishment they fought so hard to join. Hillary had a more liberal platform. Taking shots from behind the cover of anonymity is the least of their sins and our problems.

have moral courage, the character to be great? I fear not. After all, his health care plan was much less than Hillary's and John Edwards'. He and she promised to vote against telecom immunity. She did. He didn't. Mostly he wanted to be president. He put on his best clothes and his best manners and wooed an American electorate which wanted to fall in love. But after he won fair lady, after the wedding, he stopped shaving and showering and started hanging around in his underwear.

that once again he blamed everyone else. He never takes responsibility for his mistakes. He should have said, both times, I made a mistake. I tried to act out of charity but I was wrong. Nooooo, he lists all the other people whose fault it REALLY was.

for Prince Charming that he was a liberal, or at least a progressive. They ignored his position on Afghanistan and his assertion that we should use drones to bomb our enemies in Pakistan even if it meant civilian casualties and increased hostility to us.

Pay no mind, his love-lorn supporters said, to his middle of the road health care plan--much more conservative than Hillary's. We don't need a public option to keep costs down. Forget the bucket of money he got from Wall Street, especially Goldman-Sachs.

They pretended that his flip-flop on telecom immunity was somehow Hillary's fault--that is, some claimed, she only kept her promise to vote against immunity to make him look bad.

The problem with his decision to dress as a liberal, or progressive, when he was not isn't the lie--all politicians are to some degree dishonest and he is a better choice than Bush the supposed Compassionate Conservative, McCain the panderer to the religious right he despised just months before he ran, or Palin the supposed populist who runs with the rich kids and never offered legislation to help the working class.

The problem is hell hath no fury like a jilted lover. Bush's supporters followed him over the cliff; McCain had love-sick swains only in the press corps; and Palin's supporters are too stupid, too ignorant to know they are being screwed.

Many of Obama's supporters know they have been had and they will PUNISH HIM AND THE REST OF US by staying home in 2010, leaving the country in the tender-less, mercy-less hands of the likes of Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell, James Inhofe, and Tom Coburn and their ilk in the House.

Then we really will be screwed.

Hillary's health care plan was more liberal, her support of unions and social security more progressive than Obama's (all of which were noted repeatedly by Paul Krugman, a real liberal), so maybe she is more progressive, overall. I do agree that her foreign policy positions were not more liberal, but her domestic agenda certainly was. And, she kept her word to vote against telecom immunity while Obama went back on his promise--a preview of coming attractions.