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Nobody Here But Us Post-Partisans: Does it matter if Barack Obama doesn't call his policies progressive?
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| Contributor | mtrz |
| Last Edited | mtrz Dec 16, 2008 05:50pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Barack Obama hasn't even taken office yet, and progressives have been debating his presidency with such energy it almost feels like it's time to start arguing about his legacy. Let it never be said that we're not forward-looking.
Last week, Steve Hildebrand, one of Obama's key campaign aides, took to the Huffington Post to tell the left wing of the party to ease up on criticisms of Obama for not appointing a more explicitly progressive Cabinet; predictable fury, of the "who are you telling to shut up?" variety, ensued. The press was only too excited to rewrite the "Democrats divided!" story they've been penning over and over for the last few decades.
But the truth is that while some have taken exception to some of Obama's appointments, on the whole, progressives are quite pleased with him so far. As former Prospect editor Michael Tomasky wrote, "I'm not nervous or flat-out angry or even concerned. I'm excited. And by the way, the vast majority of the people I know are excited, too." A Pew poll released last week asked whether people thought Obama's appointments were too liberal, too conservative, or about right. A grand total of 1 percent of Democrats said they were too conservative. |
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