Those members of the left who are publicly rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over the death of the great* left-wing voice Howard Zinn should remember Zinn’s recent words about Obama:

“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that comes close is some of Obama’s rhetoric; I don’t see any kind of a highlight in his actions and policies. . . . I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president–which means, in our time, a dangerous president–unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

*I don’t use “great” sarcastically here. Although I disagreed with Zinn’s take on a lot of things, I found his books very interesting to read. R.I.P.