[W]hen liberals point to Summers and other members of the Obama team, crying betrayal, they misunderstand the strategy behind those appointments.

  Well... are you going to believe what obama says.... or your lying eyes?

Conason expresses a laughable oxymoron - "make a reasonable case for radical change." Radicals change things through ruthless force, damn what the people think or want. Let Obama try it; it will be his "don't ask don't tell" moment. More to the point, the reaction to any attempted Obama radicalism would be the same as it was to Clinton's bait and switch on tax cuts after his '92 election. The electorate would rebel. And Obama knows it. Conason and his fellow radicals are out to dry.

I am predicting that one of his first exectuive orders will be to lift the don't ask don't tell policy in the military thereby weakening our national defense. There will be highly dedicated men and women that will leave because of it. When our forces are weakened then the nation is weakened. But we knew this radcial agenda was coming with a Dem congress, a socialist president, and probably a filabuster proof Senate.

People like Bill Ayers and Rosie ODonnell will be mainstream. It is scary-very scary.

YOU CAN KEEP "THE CHANGE" PALIN 2012

not until 12/6 and there is no such thing as "office of the PE."

He still has to prove he is a "natural born citizen." 12/1 for the proof. 

I have no doubt he still plans as much radical change as possible. That's what his entire life has been about. It doesn't matter who he appoints, he's the guy in charge. They're there to do what he wants, not what they want.

If you didn't already know this, you haven't been paying attention. 

Find one instance in which Obama himself -- not his supporters, not his spokesmouths, but the Big B.O. himself -- has said anything that could be reasonably interpreted as "I will govern from the center." 

Try, I dare you.  You can't, because he's never said it.  He's trotted out people to imply it without specifics, and he's sold journalists like Richard "Yeah, liberals are smarter than conservatives" Wolffe of Newsweek into believing it and putting it on the cover of the magazine.  When he was finally challenged about how he promised "change" but so far surrounded himself mostly with Clinton retreads, he said, in effect, 'I am the change.'

Observant people realize that he's never been closer to conservatism than in the center on issues have to do with ideology; that's why he voted "present" on hot button bills rather than take a stand, and in those rare occasions when he would, he chose the liberal side (The "Born-Alive" bill, for example).  IMHO, Barack Obama is like Hollywood writers like David E. Kelley, who create dim-bulb conservative characters like Boston Legal's Denny Crane. He doesn't know how an authentic conservative thinks, and doesn't seem to want to find out (Lawrence O'Donnell, who wrote for West Wing and created his own short-lived drama Mister Sterling about an indepedent Senator [played by Josh Brolin], also fits this description). 

It stretches the imagination to conceive of a way that a guy whose parents were left-wing radicals, whose college friends were left-wing radicals, whose political mentors were left-wing radicals, and who ran for President by appealing to left-wing radicals would suddenly turn on a dime and become the Centrist-in-Chief.  That idea is a fantasy created by two types of people: People who want to lull you into a false sense of security by insisting that despite his history, he's not a liberal idealogue, and David Brooks/Christopher Buckley-type Republicans who think so highly of Obama's intelligence that they figured he just couldn't be so stupid as to act as liberal as he might want. 

What the latter don't take into account is that Obama is a completely different animal; he will have a greater opportunity to be radical because of the willingness of the MSM to cover for him, and because people generally are willing to take a wait-and-see approach to the sweeping transformation he promised with the economy in such sorry shape.

No such delusions come from me.  President Obama may be inevitable, but I refuse to just relax and enjoy him. 

"Well, I've got nothing against the press...they wouldn't print it if it wasn't true..." -- Joe Jackson, "Sunday Papers"