So Many Obama Supporters Who Drank the Kool-Aid

now are not only having hangovers, they are having buyers' remorse:

You also exhibit an appalling lack of leadership. Let me again be clear. I fully understand you face an array of issues as difficult as any previous President. I know the decision on Afghanistan was heart-wrenching and intellectually treacherous as well. Global warming is as unique as any global challenge our planet has had to address collectively. But the consequences of your leadership style on health care reform will not only jeopardize the quality of this legislative package but also render you as a weakling who can be pushed around. Its becoming no secret that the CEOs of Wall Street banks do not mind getting a tongue-lashing so long as they know that the President will never push a legislative agenda to stop them. Likewise, your capitulation to moderate Democrats and Republicans (like Olympia Snowe for whom I have great respect) shows you are an easy pushover who will always opt for the patina of bipartisanship rather than standing strong in defense of intensely-held principles. This will inure to your detriment in future negotiations, domestic and foreign, where your adversaries and allies alike will offer a symbolic hand in friendship but deny you the utility or advantage of any real help requiring real sacrifice on their part.

It is with great sadness and disillusionment I write this letter. I have believed in your message of hope even as late as last week. I have exhausted myself in your defense and thought your critics on the left to be expecting too much or those on the right to be assigning to you the blame for problems created before your time. Now I can no longer hide from the conclusion that, while you seek to achieve accommodation on almost all issues, you seek to avoid controversy when the decision-making process is a shared one; i.e. domestic matters where the commander-in-chief cannot dominate the topic. The American people want to see someone who will not only work hard for them but, when necessary, fight for them. By capitulating unreasonably to Senator Lieberman on health care reform, you show you are not a fighter; you are willing to accept the mediocre even after expending a huge amount of political capital. You show Republicans that you are a pushover and that once you commit to a course of action you will compromise to the point that the original purpose underlying that course of action is itself defeated.

People having read this blog have known a long, long time about the real Barack Obama, not the media-hyped Messiah from Hyde Park. I don't want to say, "I told you so," but "I told you so."