Barack Obama was elected through a huge push from left-of-center voters, who expected him to pursue policies they identified with. He keeps failing to do this.

Not only did he escalate the war in Afghanistan (with the result that American deaths have doubled there compared to last year, not to mention civilian casualties), sign a half-assed health care "reform" bill (when most of his supporters wanted a public option, if not outright single-payer), and appear poised to pursue Sen. Dodd's banking "reform" bill (which does nothing to change Big Finance's risky and outright fraudulent practices).

Now he's delivered a slap in the face of environmentalists and reversed decades of preservation policies by opening sensitive coastal areas to oil and gas drilling.

I'm as progressive as most of the folks who had such high hopes when they got Obama elected, but I find myself in the strange company of the right in saying:

President Obama and his policies must be opposed.