Barack Obama

Yglesias suffers from the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" syndrome. Republicans hate Obama, so he must be good. Obama is not fighting for our side. His vision is clearly one where the big banks and wealthy investors call the shots. On every level he chooses advisers who are "Corporate Friendly" and reformers who are to the right of the vast majority of the Democratic party. There is nothing in this article to support his belief that Obama wants to redistribute from the rich to the poor and the fact the the gap between rich and poor has grown at an increasing rate under Obama would indicate the opposite.

I think Thomas Frank's next book should be "What's the Matter with Liberals - How Conservatives won the Heart of the Democratic Party" because we are becoming that moronic block of voters who can always be counted on to vote against our own interests.