“. . . At this stage in the campaign, I’ll take any version of Barack Obama as president over McCain/Bush/Palin.

However, I will gladly have this second discussion with you 1 second after – we should be so lucky – Barack Obama is sworn in.” – tristero

The discussion being Glenn Greenwald’s observation, “it’s far from clear which version of Barack Obama will end up governing.” Greenwald, perhaps still chaffing at Monsieur IOZ’s oft restated “defender of the status quo ante” characterization, was in the middle of letting the rhetorical guns blaze:

. . . it’s worth underscoring — in fact, it’s vital to keep in mind — that the option of politically empowering Democrats is the opposite of a panacea. The Democratic Party structure in Washington, and particularly its leadership in Congress, is more corrupted and destructive than anything else there is — with the exception of the right-wing faction that has been running the country for the last eight years. Contrary to the inane conventional Beltway wisdom that bipartisanship is oh-so-tragically scarce, Democrats as an entity have, over and over, passively acquiesced to, and frequently actively enabled and participated in, many of the worst abuses of the last eight years. Their leadership in Congress is corrupt and craven to the bone in many of the same ways the GOP leadership has been — and they’re about to be far more entrenched and their power far less checked.

Waiting until one second after Senator Obama has been inaugurated–should that occurrence indeed happen–is far too late in the game to start criticizing. While the Daily Kos crowd crows for the back of the Republican Party to be broken, the pendulum swings, and “the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.”

See also: Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?