Glen Greenwald at Salon Must Read DU

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UPDATE:  It's also worth noting how completely antithetical claims are advanced to defend and excuse Obama.  We've long heard -- from the most blindly loyal cheerleaders and from Emanuel himself -- that progressives should place their trust in the Obama White House to get this done the right way, that he's playing 11-dimensional chess when everyone else is playing checkers, that Obama is the Long Game Master who will always win.  Then, when a bad bill is produced, the exact opposite claim is hauled out:  it's not his fault because he's totally powerless, has nothing to do with this, and couldn't possibly have altered the outcome.  From his defenders, he's instantaneously transformed from 11-dimensional chess Master to impotent, victimized bystander.

The supreme goal is to shield him from all blame.  What gets said to accomplish that goal can -- and does -- radically change from day to day.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/16/white_house/index.html

The whole thing is a good read. He had Obama pegged back in August.