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Anyone wants to know how I'm looking at Barack Obama these days can get a fair idea from a column in Sunday's Denver Post by Ed Quillen.
Ed writes that while reading the news about the deal cut in Washington to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years (including, notably, a cut for the super-rich), he began grumbling, "Damn it, if I wanted Republicans to run things, I'd have voted for one."
Amen, brother.
And he proceeds to recall a few of the harsh words of Democratic presidents Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman toward those in government who, Truman said, "believe in taking care of big business first and letting the little fellow take care of himself."
Quillen also wonders how folks from the far right can possibly consider Obama to be a "Marxian socialist" -- as they say they do -- since "Obama hasn't even been talking like a traditional American Democrat."
Amen to that, too. He needs to work up a real good partisan Democratic sweat sometimes.