The left is going to be deeply satisfied if Obama just works to correct the damage that the Bush administration has caused. We're not looking for a radical progressive agenda at this point: we want correction and restitution. We'll be thrilled if he closes Guantanamo, gets the DOJ in order, signs Kyoto, undoes all the bogus EPA regulations, and on and on and on. In this sense, Obama has it easy. We (I'll speak from the hard left) are at this point quite easy to please.

But we want S Hersh to make those calls on January 20 (main page post).

Of course CNN is at the heart of this (Bennett, Gergen, Campbell, et al). They worked hard to compromise the evening with all their centrist pablum about centrism: Obama has work hard not to be held hostage by the left; will he be left or center left; he needs to learn from Clinton's mistakes, etc.

What they fail to understand is that the left is going to be deeply satisfied if Obama just works to correct the damage that the Bush administration has caused. We're not looking for a radical progressive agenda at this point; we'll be thrilled if he closes Guantanamo, gets the DOJ in order, signs Kyoto, undoes all the bogus EPA regulations, and on and on and on. In this sense, Obama has it easy. We (I'll speak from the hard left) are at this point quite easy to please.

Otherwise we are going to have to listen to centrist pablum about how Obama has to take care not to be held hostage by Pelosi and Reid.

It's really more efficient when everyone is given pen and paper: no interface to learn, no machine errors. I am a big fan of the voting-by-bubble system, to say the least.

Also, how can she not know who the Canadian PM is?

And how can she not know that Sarkozy has already implicitly endorsed Obama and said he 'would work with' the McCain administration if necessary?

I wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeves: how about an animated gif circa 1995 that has Obama and Osama morphing into each other?