Influential Democratic blogger Matt Stoller, an early front-pager at MyDD and one of the co-founders of Open Left, has not exactly been supportive of Senator Obama's candidacy. He appeared in a Bill Richardson web ad which castigated Obama and other candidates for not matching Richardson's impossible promise to immediately withdraw all troops from Iraq upon taking office. Stoller has put up a lot of extremely critical posts about Barack recently:
"Obama isn't one of us, and in his political career he has shown himself entirely unequipped to lead in a time of extremism. It doesn't much matter than he worked as a community organizer in his twenties. At crunch time, Obama is almost always absent, or even on the other side."
"Obama will not lead on Iraq, but worse than that, he will not even address it...He's just avoiding the subject. And why should I pick Obama if I want someone who avoids the subject? I can get a better version of that in the form of Hillary Clinton."
