A Different Kind of Leader, No More?

Michael Moore and the left are in a state of apoplexy and total breakdown as their beloved leader prepares to align himself with the baleful neocons (as they see it).

The fact is, liberals are bracing to learn a cold, immutable fact about politics: there's nothing new under the sun. As Barack Obama prepares to announce the surge in Afghanistan (finally), the left is painfully realizing that he is not le Roi Soleil they had hoped for.

From Rich Lowry, writing for National Review Online:

Prepare for the advent of Barack Obama, neocon. On the Afghan War, he is throwing in with the lying, warmongering running dogs of neoconservatism by ordering a surge of some 30,000 troops.

Obama has to become a president of victory even though he hails from a party of defeat. The responsibilities of office separate him from a political base that only sounded stalwart on the Afghan War so long as it was a handy political tool with which to beat George W. Bush about the head and shoulders.