Here are the grafs from the WaPo report on its latest polling that have today drawn comment from Glenn Greenwald, David Dayen and many others, including on the right. All are crying "hypocrisy".

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Obama, who campaigned on a pledge to close the brig at Guantanamo Bay and to change national security policies he criticized as inconsistent with U.S. law and values, has little to fear politically for failing to live up to all of those promises.

The survey shows that 70 percent of respondents approve of Obama’s decision to keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay. He pledged during his first week in office to close the prison within a year. But he has not done so.

Even the party base appears willing to forgive that failure.

The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.

Obama has also relied on armed drones far more than Bush did, and he has expanded their use beyond America’s defined war zones. The Post-ABC News poll found that 83 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s drone policy, which administration officials refuse to discuss, citing security concerns.

The president only recently acknowledged the drone program, which some human rights advocates say operates without a clear legal framework and in violation of the U.S. prohibition against assassination.

But fully 77 percent of liberal Democrats endorse the use of drones, meaning that Obama is unlikely to suffer any political consequences as a result of his policy in this election year.

And here's a chart from a 2010 study that says roughly the same thing, more eloquently than a thousand words.

"The key argument is that the decline of the antiwar movement can be attributed, in part, to the fact that Democrats have stopped using the peace movement as a platform for anti-Bush sentiment."

As long ago as 2006 I was warning Glenn, amongst others, that the Democrats supposed urge to cave to the Bush administration on the powers of the Imperial Presidency wasn't coming "from a place of fear and excess caution" as Glenn put it back then, but rather from "satisfaction with the status quo which is handing the next...Democrat President a massively greater power" by virtue of Bush's precedent. And thus it has proven, with the bulk of the Democrat and self-vouched liberal rank and file falling in line just like Republicans did for Dubya.

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