A must-read from Paul Street:
"Now that Barack Obama is being exposed like never before as a tool and agent of concentrated wealth, business class rule, and militarism, 2009 is ending on a distinct note of liberal disenchantment. His "progressive base" is restive over his actions to an unprecedented (to use Obama's favorite word [1]) degree as the president of "Yes we can" has morphed (as widely predicted on "hard left") into the pallid symbol of "No We can't - as the clarion of "change" has emerged as another Democratic office-holder whose outwardly progressive campaign pledges translate into corrupt, corporate and imperial nothingness in the real world of power." [ZNet]