Hendrik Hertzberg wrote last week. “I realize it’s a bit late for yet another touching yet narcissistic account of How Election Day Was For Me. But I’m just emerging from four days of mental fog characterized by alternating episodes of dazed happiness and numb stupefaction.”

I agree it’s a bit late to talk about the election results. (Personally, I’m just emerging from the fog of illness.) So here’s a touching yet narcissistic account of Why We Need to Criticize Obama.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I do want the world to be a more fair and just place. But a Chicago Democrat talking about change always seemed odd to me. (For non-Chicagoans out there, here’s a good article from the Trib about Dem politics in the Windy City.)

And while I woke up to this cute text message on November 5, the fuzzy feeling wore off when I saw Obama picked Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff.

Recycling Clinton appointees is not exactly visionary. Nor is appointing the hawkish HRC as Sec of State.

My latest O criticism: Eric Holder as AG. I’ll write more on this, but essentially Holder is defending Chiquita Brands International in a civil suit brought by the families of murdered banana workers. Chiquita has already admitted to paying Colombia’s rightwing death squads $1.7 million over a seven-year period. And guns. Chiquita admits it gave guns to death squads!

Chiquita says it was extortion. But using violence to control workers is something companies doing business in Colombia do all too frequently. And it’s something Eric Holder gets paid to defend.