A liberal’s long journey away from Barack Obama and the Democratic party   By Michael Pellegrini About seven and a half years ago following the 2008 elections, I wrote a blog post titled America: Disgraced then reborn.     I absolutely gushed about how happy I was at the election of Barack Obama. I was dead certain he would right all the wrongs caused by eight years of George Bush, and particularly, that he would make good on his pledge to end all our wars. To me, implicit in that promise was ending the phony war on terror. A “war” that was nothing…