Hullabaloo<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDuring the last presidential campaign, I swooningly predicted that Barack Obama would be our first civil libertarian president. Of course, I was wrong, and the last three years have offered plenty of …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… will be neither as awesome as his most fervent fans think it will be, nor as horrific as his most paranoid detractors claim it will be. In fact, it will probably be … well, a lot like his first term. 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