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In the time-honored tradition of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama has been moving rightward ever since he clinched the nomination. Though bloggers and mainstream media like to say he’s moving “toward the center,” that’s not a direction.

• He criticized African-American men who are bad fathers and don’t take personal responsiblity for their families, an obvious attempt to appease whites who are, well, “uncomfortable” with African-Americans.
• Two Muslim women who attended Barack Obama’s event June 16 in Detroit were told they couldn’t stand behind the candidate, according to NPR. One was told her head covering was an issue, and another was told by an Obama volunteer that for political reasons they didn’t want Muslims appearing with him on TV.
• NPR reports Obama supported legalizing Bush’s illegal wiretaps and supported the right of states to execute rapists.

What the Democrats won’t say out loud is that they are going to take liberal voters for granted from now until election day. Obama, like Gore and Kerrey and Clinton and a long parade of other Democratic Party phonies, knows that the two-party system ensures that principled liberal voters now have nowhere else to go. Because there are no left third party candidates pulling the political center of gravity to the left, Obama is free to sprint to the right. Will you still recognize him by election day?

Pam’s House Blend mentions that Bill Clinton has been acting like an ass. Well, sure, he could be a better sport about his wife losing the primary elections. But I think if Democrats really want to make a change, they should dump center-right leaders like Bill Clinton altogether, rather than giving a damn about what he says or how he feels about it. This is the President who sided with racist conservatives on ending welfare, who drummed out gays from the military, who rejected single-payer national health care, supported the death penalty, supported censorship on the Internet, just to scratch the surface.

Even liberals, who have historically been too trusting, should have gotten the message by now.  Bill Clinton never was a liberal, and he’s no friend to liberals.  If you want things to get better, you have to stop going back to your abusive boyfriend.

Brilliant at Breakfast has awarded today’s worst person in the world award to T. Boone Pickens, who created the campaign of “Switf Boar” lies against John Kerrey. Pickens offered $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single charge made by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. So Kerry and his sympathizers disproved several. And Pickens won’t pay. What a surprise, a liar got caught in another lie.

According to the New York Times,

Extensive media accounts undermined the Swift Boat charges in 2004, pointing out that some of the Swift Boat critics had written statements during Vietnam lauding Mr. Kerry for extraordinary bravery in the incidents they later said he made up. (One accuser in particular had become upset by his portrayal in a Kerry biography in 2004.) One critic had himself received a medal for heroism during a hail of gunfire he later claimed Mr. Kerry had concocted to win his third purple heart.