Melanie Phillips says "don't be fooled." Obama knows exactly where he is going and how to get there. She sees Republican conservatives who credit Obama for making "centrist" appointments as naive. She writes
(my emphases):
Trevor Loudon has got hold of a fascinating analysis of
Prez-elect Obama’s administrative appointments by Mark Rudd and Jeff
Jones, two former Weather Underground terrorists (chums of Obama’s old ally chance
acquaintance, the unrepentant former WU terrorist William Ayers). The
two of them are now on the board of Movement for a Democratic society,
in turn the parent body of Progressives for Obama, the leading leftist
lobby group behind Obama’s presidential campaign. And waddya know –
just like me they believe Obama is practising stealth politics with a
degree of sophistication and success with which ‘even Lenin would be
impressed’. As they say, Obama knows that he must be subtle and
reassure even the most conservative of his opponents if he is to
achieve his radical goals. Mark Rudd writes: (Read on. . . -- especially if you want a counter-analysis to the one emerging in the popular press. Me: I'll wait and see, but I like to be alerted and forewarned by articles of this type. Time will tell, but having read this, we can't say we weren't warned.) -- (HT: Corner at NRO)