The liberal left in the Democratic Party is worried that Obama isn't liberal enough. While the far, far GOP right is still contending Obama isn't an American citizen, hence he can't really be president. (Do they really want to go through another presidential election!) Here's the latest, courtesy of Politico.
Just Monday the Supreme Court rejected one legal challenge to Obama's citizenship:
"The Supreme Court Monday rejected one case contending that Obama is not a "natural born citizen," as the president is required to be under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. The case, referred to the court by Justice Clarence Thomas after Justice David Souter had rejected it, argued that because Obama's father was a citizen of Kenya, at the time a British colony, the president-elect was born with dual citizenship.
Another case, filed by Attorney Phillip J. Berg, effectively contends that Obama has outright lied about having been born on American soil. The high court has yet to rule on that argument."
Meanwhile, the Democratic near-left is worried that Obama is reneging on his pledges to eliminate the Bush tax cuts and tax the oil companies "windfall" profits.
"Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.
Now some are shedding a reluctance to puncture the liberal euphoria at being rid of President George W. Bush to say, in effect, that the new boss looks like the old boss."
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Extremism on either the left or the right is doomed to failure via marginalization. How can one succeed thorugh cooperation unless one can understand the validity of an opposing viewpoint?— Phrossty- For heaven's sake, he isn't even president yet. How can the extremities of either side be talking about what he has failed to do?— Friend of Fily
- Dear Disappointed Liberals: Obama used Ayers, Pfleger, and Rezko to get to the top- as they became a negative, he treated them like yesterday's garbage- including his "20 yr spirititual advisor" Rev Wright. His grandmother raised him well and even sent him to Harvard- but when it was useful, she was just "a typical white person". If you expected him to act out of any loyalty or principle, you haven't really taken a serious look at how he got this far in the first place. Why should liberal supporters expect any different? Since most Americans detest liberalism, it should have been obvious that once you helped push him over the finish line, you'd later be the ugly girl he took to prom... back when he couldn't do any better. It's time to realize the Obama doesn't have any philosophy to fufill, except one of relentless self-promotion- he's first-and-foremost a calculating opportunist. You should have done some real due dilligence and saw how he used people and set-up unopposed elections in Illinois to pave a smooth ride to the top. Maybe then you'd have had a better idea of what to expect this time... instead of what you projected onto this self-proclaimed "blank canvas". He's now loading his cabinet with moderate potential rivals Clinton, Richardson, and Biden to avoid a challenge in the primaries of 2011, when his poll numbers are in the toilet. And these middle roaders are there to help him rule too, of course- because Barack Obama is in way, way over his head now. It is doubtful that when he announced his run he thought he'd ever acutally win, and there's nothing he fears more now than a comprehensive political collapse following the fanciful "Obamamania" fad. John Edwards COULD have been the one "progressive" in Obama's White House, but unfortunately this beacon of leftist morality couldn't keep from playing-around on his terminally-ill wife, while misappropriating campaign funds. http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/— Reaganite Republican
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Thomas Fitzgerald joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2000, and has covered Harrisburg as well as city, state and national politics for the newspaper. He was a “boy on the bus” in the 2004 presidential campaign and during primary contests in 2000 and 1996.
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