In Jonathan Weisman's page one, well-disguised hit piece on Barack Obama in today's
Washington Post (GOP Doubts, Fears 'Post-Partisan' Obama), Weisman makes numerous references to Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.
Writes Weisman: " ... In contrast, the American Conservative Union ranked (Obama) at 8 percent, the same figure awarded to
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and
Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), two
unapologetic liberals. (italics mine)"
Why the suggestion that Feingold (and Boxer) have something for which they need be
apologetic?
Was it Feingold's vote against the Iraq War? The discredited Patriot Act? The Bush tax cuts for the super-rich? Feingold's authorship of ethics reform? Feingold's fight for the Fourth Amendment?