I somehow missed it when it was first posted, but this lengthy post by Daniel Koffler at AotP is the best response I’ve seen to the civil libertarian/anti-war case against Obama, in part because it concedes many of the left/libertarian/paleo critiques (on FISA, the war, etc.).

Obama is never going to be as anti-interventionist as I, for one, would like him to be. That doesn’t mean, though, that it’s not a big deal whether or not we withdraw from Iraq, start a war with Iran, etc. I’m in no position to begrudge anyone their third-party vote, but it’s good to be clear that there is more than a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.