President-elect Obama continues to take fire from his supporters on the far left for his continuing shifting positions, many of which are counter to those which he campaigned on.  His choices for his cabinet have been well documented as being Clinton re-treads and Democratic insiders.  Not one has been a “progressive” as he promised. 

Now those on the left are raising eyebrows at his policy decisions as he continues to backtrack on everything from taxing oil companies to the war in Iraq.  Politico recently ran an interesting piece on this topic, one which of course the mainstream media won’t follow up on.  Among Politico’s findings:

Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he’s stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left. [...]

Obama drew rousing applause at campaign events when he vowed to tax the windfall profits of oil companies. As president-elect, Obama says he won’t enact the tax.

Obama’s pledge to repeal the Bush tax cuts and redistribute that money to the middle class made him a hero among Democrats who said the cuts favored the wealthy. But now he’s struck a more cautious stance on rolling back tax cuts for people making over $250,000 a year, signaling he’ll merely let them expire as scheduled at the end of 2010. [...]

During the campaign Obama gained labor support by saying he favored legislation that would make it easier for unions to form inside companies. The “card check” bill would get rid of a secret-ballot method of voting to form a union and replace it with a system that would require companies to recognize unions simply if a majority of workers signed cards saying they want one. Obama still supports that legislation, aides say – but union leaders are worried that he no longer talks it up much as president-elect.

How do you like that?  Is that the change the left voted for? 

Be sure to check out the full story.  You can also watch an interview with Politico below: