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... for Valentine's Day. There's the Victorian way. And then there's the Mustillian way.

When Noam Chomsky or Ralph Nader or Glenn Greenwald or Paul Krugman or Chris Hedges or any number of Obama's leftwing critics call him a disgrace and worse -- ok, let's say it, a finkified hypocrite -- their opinions are dismissed on the right as the mutterings of ideologues who in some cases feel that they were jilted at the alter.

So let's quote a rightwinger, the columnist Ross Douthat, who writes in today's NYT:

[A]fter two years in office we can say with some certainty where Barack Obama's instincts really lie. From the war on terror to the current unrest in Egypt, his foreign policy has owed far more to conservative realpolitik than to any left-wing vision of international affairs.

And that's not all.

On nearly every anti-terror front, from detainee policy to drone strikes, the Obama administration has been what The Washington Times's Eli Lake calls a "9/14 presidency," maintaining or even expanding the powers that George W. Bush claimed in the aftermath of 9/11.

This is not news to anyone who keeps up with the news.

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