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The Bloom is off the Rose
Well, Obama voted "Yea" on the FISA / wiretapping / retroactive immunity bill. Damn.
I admit, I had been enthusiastic about Obama for president. He seemed like a grown-up, a startling contrast to most other politicians: he panned the moronic gas-tax holiday, for instance. He didn't go in for the stupid catch-phrase gotcha games that are the staple of American news-politics.
But now he's tacking to the right so violently he's doing dumb things, such as the FISA bill vote. The cynic in me is embarrassed to admit to feeling disillusionment. Yes, in the absence of evidence I projected my own positions onto him, and now he's revealing that, although intelligent and moral (unlike, say, a Republican), he's also just a politician, with the flexible principles that entails.
Oh, he's head and shoulders - no, he's multiple entire bodies - above McCain. But I had hoped to vote with some enthusiasm, rather than muted hope. Ah, well.