About Obama’s treachery?

Is it a superficial product of Obama’s pragmatism and the situation he confronts? Or does his treachery originate from the bottom of his soul?

The audacious one

In the quoted passage, Glenn Greenwald suggests that Barack Obama is rotten to the core, an opportunist and a committed elitist who cares not at all about the “lesser people”:

Obama knows full well that he can slash Medicare, Medicaid and even Social Security — just like he could sign an extension of Bush tax cuts, escalate multiple wars, and embrace the Bush/Cheney Terrorism template recently known in Democratic circles as “shredding the Constitution”—and have most Democrats and progressives continue to support him anyway. Unconditional support ensures political impotence, and rightly so. He’s attending to the constituencies that matter: mostly, Wall Street tycoons who funded his 2008 campaign and whom he hopes will fund his re-election bid, and independents whose support is in question. And he’s doing that both because it’s in his perceived interest and because, to the extent he believes in anything, those are the constituencies with which he feels most comfortable.