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Many liberals and progressives are disappointed in Obama’s continuing business-friendly direction. They accuse him of “moral collapse” and criticize his “spineless” failure to “act on his [supposedly progressive] convictions." But "collapse" from what progressive convictions? Obama is acting boldly in accord with his longstanding “deeply conservative” instincts, and giving the finger to “the left.” The sort of thing you might expect from a guy who could make a speech in defense of war while (absurdly) receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama is not being cowardly in his tax “deal for the American people” (for plutocrats) anymore than he is been spineless while advancing an auto-restructuring plan that raided union pension funds and rewarded capital flight, pushing through a health “reform” bill that only insurance and drug companies could love, undermining serious global carbon emission reduction efforts at Copenhagen, prosecuting whistleblowers and harassing antiwar activists, and prosecuting and expanding criminal overt and covert wars in South Asia and around the world.