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President Barack Obama: Where's the Change? It's Everywhere, reports The Huffington Post

Dylan Loewe Op-ed contributor for The Guardian:

I wrote an article on HuffPost a couple of days ago that spoke, among other things, about Barack Obama's ability to mobilize the Democratic base. One commenter responded with this: "With all due respect Mr. Loewe, Obama's base is also furious....with him." Another said: "The author neglects a critical logic. The Democrats have betrayed the voters who went to the dance with them. Flopsie has reversed virtually every major campaign promise. Hope for change is gone."

This sentiment is familiar to most who read this website and others; it's that of the "Where's the change?" crowd on the left, those who believe that Obama has turned out to be little more than a compassionate version of George W. Bush.

I'm not in that camp. I wasn't under the impression that Obama was going to somehow circumvent the political process in Washington. I didn't think he was going to end the game; I thought he was going to play it differently... and better.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/wheres-the-change-there-a_b_301653.html

 

Bill Clinton Says Right-Wing Conspiracy Now After President Obama, Clinton Says Attacks From Right Are Back, But Not as Strong as Before, reports ABC News

Former President Bill Clinton says the right-wing conspiracy that attacked him during his presidency now is after President Obama.

When asked whether the "vast right-wing conspiracy" is still present today, the former president answered without hesitation, "Oh you bet."

"It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically, but it's as virulent as it was," Clinton said today on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Right-wing conspiracy" was the term used by former first lady Hillary Clinton to describe the tactics her husband's political enemies used to attack his presidency after revelations of his affair with Monica Lewinski.

Read more: ABC News