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Dear Glenn - I share your frustration but not your surprise. Whatever led you to think that Obama would be anything but conciliatory towards the centrist establishment on practically every issue? Did you really believe that he would turn Guantanamo inside out, prosecute the torturers, lock AIPAC out of his office, call Blue Dogs to heel, and implement a rational Iran policy? He's much too comfortable joining the Washington club to be a troublemaker. (The pictures of him posing happily with W, Clinton and Bush Sr. are revealing. Only Carter stands somewhat apart.) If anything "new" comes out of Obama's presidency, it will be entirely incremental and barely perceptible.
