Come With Me If You Want To Live

Avedon at Sideshow links to an excellent post on Obama by Ian Welsh, and adds:Obama had the power to do many, many good things, and he refused every opportunity to do them. He refused to even attempt the most basic steps of negotiation with the opposition, asking not for a higher goal than what we really needed, but a lower goal as a pre-compromise, thus lowering the bar further still. He