Greenwald sums it up pretty well:
He's convinced his admirers that this is a form of noble "pragmatism" but, far more often, it appears to be a mishmash of political calculations bereft of principle and plagued by numerous internal contradictions that make it impossible to understand, let alone defend. Everyone gets to read into it whatever they want to see.
Don't have much more to say about it than that. I've given up any hope that this guy is really going to make a difference. He's Clinton all over again, and that's better than Bush, but either this has been a colossal waste of an opportunity, or there never was one to begin with. History will be the judge. But in the meanwhile this has ceased to be a presidency we can care about. It's simply become the depressingly predictable, paint-by-numbers, more of the same.
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