Bill Fletcher Jr. was a guest on Voices in December, 2008 [2], just weeks after the election, to discuss his article on The Strategy of Relying on Good Faith on how progressives should relate to Barack Obama's presidency A year later -- from the escalation of the Afghanistan war to the unfolding debacle of health care reform to the US response to the crisis in Haiti -- a lot has happened to leave those on the Left feeling deeply disenchanted. Fletcher and host Eric Mann take stock of Obama's first year and discuss how should progressive forces should engage with Obama, the Democratic Party and an embolded Right wing moving forward? Bill Fletcher Jr. is former President of the TransAfrica Forum, former Assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and currently editor of the online magazine The Black Commentator [3].