Many people besides Ritter were warning us much earlier about both wars. Members of the military resigned over Iraq. I was against the war from before it started, when it was like 8% opposed (and living in Arizona, which made it a doubly isolated experience) so it’s not like nobody was saying no. What good would me pointing fingers now do? I mean with the exception of Barbara Lee nobody in the public eye has any reason to crow.
Your vote for Ron Paul accomplished what? As for your continued diatribe against progressives, in my personal experience it’s the progressives who figured it out first and it’s the moderates who cling to their candidate Obama and claim progressives are the reason HCR among others is barely getting through, and to do that they had to sell their soul to Satan on abortion. Viet-Nam? Again, the left wing figured it out right away – I know because it was physically dangerous to speak out in the mid 60s. So we catch it from the “real” Democrats and the “real” patriots.You’re talking down to your readers like mindless children while advancing no viable alternatives beyond beware the evil mohammadan and the uni-party.

Just to clarify my posts of last night – I hate these bizarre word limits. You were not proclaiming Obama to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing last year. I looked. You weren’t yelling for him from the rooftops, but you had almost as many favorable comments as unfavorable and your unfavorable were more along the lines of ‘let’s see.’ It sucks for me at 58 to be fooled, as cynical as I’ve gotten the last 20 years, but I’m not going to sit here feeling guilty while you use 20/20 hindsight to read off a litany of complaints that were obvious to most of us by the middle of February.
What a column by you saying I told you so and then recounting what he’s done like we had no clue accomplishes, I have no idea. Nor does mentioning Hoh, who until a month ago was gung-ho for killing terrorists.