Newspaper: Far left turns on Obama

The honeymoon is definitely over between Barack Obama and the far left ideologues who worked so hard to get him elected.

From an editorial in The Trentonian:

There hasn't yet been a mass rally to turn in those "Hope" and "Change" campaign buttons. But there's definitely some seismic rumblings of discontent among the peace-at-any-price community of the left.

And remember, these were the anti-war folks who played a key role in turning Obama's improbable presidential primary campaign into a bandwagon, enabling it to speed past Hillary Clinton like an Indy 500 driver taking the inside, left lane going into the straightaway.

Now look what's happening on the "peace" front: not much.

The president is vacillating on Iraq instead of getting the heck out of it, indicating that a residual force of, oh, maybe 50,000 will stay there indefinitely. Meanwhile, he's temporizing on his promise to shut down Guantanamo pronto, while Democrats in Congress are running for cover on the issue.

Plus, now the "peace candidate" is dispatching an additional 20,000 U.S. troops to the hellhole quagmire of Afghanistan, where Bush's Gen. David Petraeus — still the top dog in charge at U.S. Central Command — is calling for more attack and lift choppers, unmanned aerial vehicles, route-clearance units, mine-resistant-ambush-protected vehicles and other materiel in anticipation of a long, hard, nasty slog.

Read the full editorial, "Obama disillusions fans on the left," at the newspaper's Web site.