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BYRON YORK: The Netroots? Agenda: War? What War? ?I attended the first YearlyKos convention, in ?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: The Netroots’ Agenda: War? What War? “I attended the first YearlyKos convention, in 2006, and have kept up with later ones, and it’s safe to say that while people who attended those gatherings couldn’t stand George W. Bush in general, their feelings were particularly intense when it came to opposing the war in Iraq. It animated their activism; they hated the war, and they hated Bush for starting it. They weren’t that fond of the fighting in Afghanistan, either. Now, with Obama in the White House, all that has changed. . . . Not too long ago, with a different president in the White House, the left was obsessed with America’s wars. Now, they’re not even watching.”

Yeah, funny how the fierce moral urgency drained out of the antiwar movement as soon as a Democrat was elected President.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 15, 2009 (boomark / email).