“and with President Obama ignoring his base like Jimmy Carter did”
Ignoring his base? As far as I can tell, Obama has pandered to his base and ignored everyone else.
That is what we see,the liberals not so much.
Trust me. Alterman speaks for the base who feel used and abused, e.g. Latinos on immigration reform, pacifists in the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya, Obamacare without single payer, civil libertarians with the Patriot Act & Gitmo, etc. Despite all the ill conceived big gov't crap that Obama has done, nothing is ever enough for the utopians.