Despite the Blind Support

of his most vocal fanatics, Obama has proven to be what I and many other observers and critics always believed he was, and that is NOT a president for change.

“The thing we still don’t know about him is what he is willing to fight for,” said Leonard Burman, an economist at the Urban Institute and a Treasury Department official in the Clinton administration. “The thing I worry about is that he likes giving good speeches, he likes the adulation and he likes to make people happy.”

So far, he said, “It’s hard to think of a place where he’s taken a really hard position.”

In some of his earliest skirmishes, Mr. Obama eventually chose pragmatism over fisticuffs.

One of my sisters compared Obama's stances to that of Joseph Lieberman; hell, Obama is to the right of Lieberman on a lot of issues, but in any case it isn't a surprise when Lieberman was Obama's "mentor" when the latter first arrived in the U.S. Senate.