"Damn you, Barack Obama! You’re not Clark Kent with a tan! You’re not gay! You’re not Bernie Sanders!! You’re not an idealist with 10 or 12 rigid, unyielding progressive positions that you’re looking to force on congress!! You’re not looking to dismantle the military to spend all the money on social programs!! I have just discovered this, and I am outraged!"
Anyone that thought Barack Obama was some sort of lefty idealist was either not paying attention, listening to Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric in the primaries, or listening to Fox News in the general. Those of us that knew Obama from before 2008 knew him as a pragmatic progressive, with the emphasis on pragmatic. And that’s why I supported him from the very beginning, when I sent $50 to his presidential exploratory committee.