Unlike his mouth-breathing opponents, most of those who voted for Obama understood that he wasn’t anything close to a “socialist.” Anyone who didn’t understand that he bought into the same version of neoliberalism-lite that the DNC did was fooling himself.
Not that I blame voters for rolling the dice that Obama might go after them; the alternative of yet another GOP candidate steeped in “free” market fundamentalism only guaranteed that they wouldn’t be prosecuted. Imagine the kind of idiot who was angry at those who precipitated the crash of 2007 but still voted for McCain or (snort) Barr in 2008. Really, what kind of moron votes for less financial regulation after a crisis like that?
