I have only found 1 positive thing that Greenwald has said about Obama, and even that was kind of a

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62. Here's a typical Greenwald quote: "What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt

complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good"

That is Greenwald on Obama in the late spring of 2008, not long after Obama secured the nomination, attacking Obama for supporting the FISA Amendments Act

Now I myself happen to think the FISA Amendments Act is shitty law, but it's probably the best we could do at the time: it passed the House 293-129 and the Senate 69-28, which suggests some consensus on the Hill

And since hundreds of Representatives and Senators voted for it, I can't see why Obama deserved special censure from Greenwald for his vote

But, of course, the campaign season was beginning in earnest, and Greenwald's agenda for years has been to try to strip progressives from the Democrats in hopes of upping the libertarian vote

The general language Greenwald has used to attack Obama has followed the same (now well-worn) rut ever since