padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
all I can say is that if you think what he was peddling in 2008 was leftist firebrand, we have very divergent ideas of what "leftist firebrand" entailsHe definitely sold himself as a leftist firebrand in 2008. He literally cribbed his entire rhetorical strategy from Roberto Unger, who was advising his campaign.
I would agree that he didn't even live up to the tepid promises he did make, which is exactly why Unger dumped him so hard in 2012