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And I thought I was the lone man out, a party-crashing creature of rank idealism soured into cynicism for not accepting the conventional wisdom of the moment.

Alas, I’ve been vindicated!

Other goodly progressives like Tom Engelhardt,  Richard Linklater, Bill McKibben, Gore Vidal and Howard Zinn are experiencing ennui over Obama’s recent, steady, tumble toward the middle and have signed an open letter to the senator, reminding him of those who got him elected in the primary. I would have been less gentle with the DNC nominee, but that’s why I’m not writing for The Nation.

Sam Smith hits the right metaphor in why the safe and cautios middle ground in politics is a sacred cow in need of slaughtering. “If you take a navigational fix and it places  you on the side of a rock and then you take another fix and it places  you on the other side of the rock–don’t split the difference. Unfortunately, it’s a rule not often followed in American politics.”

Obama is no Denis Kucinich.