And yet he gave a speech, defensive in tone, complaining of bellicose critics who would have had us at war with Libya, Syria, Iran, Russia, North Korea, or God knows who else.
This globo-interventionist president has undone not a single cold war alliance, reaffirmed them all, and pushed some right up Russia's nose, all the while incoherently vilified as weak, as a traitor, as a secret Muslim, and as a near-dictator by the crackpot warmongers of the political right.
In foreign military and trade policy he is a neoliberal and only slightly left of the admittedly worse neoconservatives.
The only things he seems especially leftist about are sociolib and race issues.
His signature accomplishment, Obamacare, was a Republican plan from the beginning, much like the Medicare Advantage plans and Part D.
And then we have the occasional meaningless rhetorical sop to the left like his remarks about Ho Chi Minh and the American Revolution.
Who is this guy, anyway?
I don't know.
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