The Leader Obama Wanted to Become and What Became of Him

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‘The culprits in a Congress where, from the White House point of view, evil has been every shade of Republican turned out to be seven disloyal Democrats.’ David Bromwich, TomDispatch

OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus‘s insight:

Extreme caution marked all of Obama’s early actions in public life. Rare departures from this progress-without-a-trail — such as his pledge to filibuster granting immunity to the giants of the telecommunications industry in order to expose them to possible prosecution for warrantless surveillance — appear in retrospect wholly tactical.

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