A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on December 31st, 2009 in President

My mentor, Micah Sifry, has one of the best dissections I’ve seen of the Jekyll and Hide phenomenon that has been the Obama Administration. Like a lot of my liberal friends, Sifry apparently feels abandoned by President Obama (and he provides a convincing case for that feeling being real). It’s interesting to look at it from my position, though, because Obama is doing everything pretty much just like I thought he would.

I received considerable negative feedback from all quarters during the 2008 primary when I said that Barack Obama was a conservative (I said the same of Hillary Clinton, too). I think I’d get much less flack for that statement now. I don’t mean that Obama is a retread of George W. Bush – though he has sounded a bit W-ish on a few topics. Obama is much more like Bush the First.

But I’d rather get to a comment on Sifry’s piece, because I think it highlights a problem that will lead to Barack Obama being a one-term President. It’s a real shame because he had the potential to not only win a second term, but to build an incredible majority for Democrats. Instead, he kicked his behemoth organization to the curb, or at least tried to ram it into the garage.

If he would have kept his campaign running – something that both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush did very effectively – Democrats would be looking at picking up another ten seats in the House and maybe three or four more in the Senate. Instead, Democrats are racing to retire in competitive districts because they are afraid they are going to get buried.

This is the danger of letting a politician head up a movement. Politicians should be our servants, not our leaders.

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