TheLastManInAmerica

Does Barack Obama need to apologize for perhaps being the first politician to stick to his word? During his campaign he promised to reach across the aisle and work with moderates and conservatives to help fix the problems afflicting our country. Now every politician makes that promise but would we be surprised to learn that, if John McCain had won, he was stocking his cabinet with staunch conservatives? Absolutely not! We would just accept it as a politician playing the part.

But here we are. Obama is putting together a melting pot of a cabinet, incorporating not only members of the Clinton administration but George W. Bush’s as well and he is catching heat from some liberals who would’ve just as soon seen him go flush with the former.

“He has confirmed what our suspicions were by surrounding himself with a centrist to right cabinet. But we do hope that before it’s all over we can get at least one authentic progressive appointment,” said Tim Carpenter, national director of the Progressive Democrats of America.

I’m sorry, did he not appoint Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State? So this isn’t turning out to be the Liberal Orgy that many on the left were hoping for but it’s also not Business as Usual, which is a big relief for those who don’t live and die by the Law of the Left. The House, the Senate and the Presidency are all in the hands of the Democrats; I won’t say “what else do you want,” because I already know but hell, be satisfied with what you have because it could be much worse.

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