Posted AT 9:05 PM EST on 09/07/08
The big boys strut their small stuff
It wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama, in Martin Luther King parlance, was talking about the “fierce urgency of now.” And here he is now, moving from inspirational idealist to a middle-of-the-road panderer. On guns, on wiretaps, on election finance, on war, meet the new Senator from Illinois. A peddler of convention. An American conformist.
He might have fit in nicely with the bromide brigade at this week's G8 grinfest in Japan.
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