LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
11.04.12
The
Election
Issue
N THIS WEEK’S Election
Issue of Huffington,
Dan Froomkin looks
back four years to a
time when “the world seemed full
of possibilities — particularly for
the people who spend their careers
trying to make the world a better place.” Revisiting some of the
idealists who believed Obama’s
2008 election would inaugurate
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an era of sweeping progressive
change, Dan finds them, as he
puts it, “chastened by the reality
that Obama is a politician, not an
activist.” He looks at their disappointments, from Obama’s abandoned campaign promise to close
Guantanamo Bay to the way the
president surrounded himself
with financial insiders like Tim
Geithner and Larry Summers.
Elsewhere in the issue, Ben
Hallman drills down on the foreclosure crisis, one of Obama’s sig-
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