It’s understandable that conservatives might dislike Obama for his politics. But clearly Democrats who have a beef against Obama have some other grounds for objection. In Greenwald’s case, he’s objecting to Obama’s ‘drift to the right’ and Olbermann’s failure to notice. But it’s really a deeper issue than that. The underlying question is whether Obama and his acolytes have any principles, conservative or liberal. If he did, then the conservatives should be cheering BHO’s new FISA stance and his assertion that he was always a strong Second Amendment supporter.

The problem is that for varying reasons, some people both on the left and right don’t believe anything he says any more. Or else they are convinced his positions are so mutable they are only temporary locations, if that at all.