Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/12/16/the-obtuseness-of-the-left-establishment/
Recently a group of U.S. left-wingers, myself included, signed an open letter to certain members of the “left establishment,” urging them to come into open opposition to the Obama administration. Among those to whom the message is directed are Michael Moore, Katrina vanden Heuval, Bill Fletcher, Tom Hayden, and Jesse Jackson, Jr., all of whom vigorously supported Obama’s election as president. For them, Obama was a progressive and the best hope for a better, more equitable United States. Unfortunately, Obama has proved to be other than they believed. Although the letter doesn’t specifically say so, it implies that the signers don’t understand why otherwise intelligent people cannot say once and for all, now that their hopes have been so decisively dashed, that Obama is an enemy of working class men and women. To quote our statement:
[The Obama administration] has advanced repeated assaults on the New Deal safety net (including the previously sacrosanct Social Security trust fund), jettisoned any hope for substantive health care reform, attacked civil rights and environmental protections, and expanded a massive bailout further enriching an already bloated financial services and insurance industry. It has continued the occupation of Iraq and expanded the war in Afghanistan as well as our government’s covert and overt wars in South Asia and around the globe.