Incredible. The MSM during the campaign season sold the country Obama’s bill of BS that he was a centrist/populist kind of guy. Now that he’s in they can let the real far left pinko “cat” of of the bag.

“To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.

Some well-known Democratic activists are advising Obama on how to steer federal agencies, including a few whom conservative Republicans fought hard to keep out of power in the Clinton administration. They include Roberta Achtenberg, a gay activist whose confirmation as an assistant housing secretary was famously held up by then-Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.), and Bill Lann Lee, who was hotly opposed by foes of affirmative action and temporarily blocked from the government’s top civil rights job.

Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical policies to come.

“It is disturbing,” said Roger Clegg, a conservative opponent of Lee’s appointment who is now watching the Obama advisers at the Justice Department. “The transition team as described to me was made up of nothing but people on the far left. Though Obama is more moderate, that makes you wonder what kind of advice the president is given, and what range of choices he’ll be given when it comes time to make appointments.”

But some government experts argue that in this particular transition, a wider-than-usual ideological gap separates the outgoing Bush administration and the incoming Obama team and that both sides are likely to view the other as extreme.

“The incoming Bush people were all about stopping regulation. The Obama people will do their best to accelerate regulation that they think protects the environment, workers, airline safety, et cetera,” said Paul Light, a New York University professor of government who has served as a consultant on the transition to The Washington Post. “That’s not barbarians at the gate. It’s a difference of philosophy.”

Although some of Obama’s transition advisers have lined up for key jobs, it is not clear whether either Achtenberg or Lee is under consideration. Sources close to the transition say that Obama and his senior advisers hope to stay focused on their agenda in the early part of the administration, and carefully avoid putting up controversial nominees that could drain energy and time from the fresh White House.”

Let’s stop the pretension, Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate, his ideology is as far left as it comes. There isn’t a centrist bone in his body, or in the character make up of his administration to come.

America was hoodwinked, and when it becomes more apparent who Barack Obama is, “staunch conservatives” won’t be the only one’s alarmed. But alas it will be too late to scream.

Halloween comes early to Washington.