Anti-War Groups Afraid To Criticize Obama

Interesting. I guess they're hoisted on their own petard:

Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.

The activists -- key members of the coalition that propelled Obama to the White House -- fear he is drifting from the antiwar moorings of his once-longshot presidential candidacy. Obama has eased the rigid timetable he had set for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and he appears to be leaning toward the center in his candidates to fill key national security posts.

"There's so much Obama hero worship, we're having to walk this line where we can't directly criticize him," he said. "But we are expressing concern."

That's the problem with idealizing someone to this degree. It comes back to bite you in the ass. All over the internet there's wailing and gnashing of teeth about Joe Lieberman being welcomed back into the Democrat fold and Hillary Clinton being asked to be Secretary of State.

Of course, from my perspective, every time he breaks a promise it's good news. And particularly in this case, because the war is essentially over and a timetable for withdrawal is in place. For Obama to summarily withdraw at this point would be to endanger the progress that has been made.