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The O’tolerant left? Where?
What has become of the left?
O’s legacy: The left is best when it savages/eats its own; cannibalism.
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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“The American Prospect Savages Matt Taibbi For Savaging Obama
American Prospect, the left-leaning political magazine, doesn’t like Matt Taibbi’s latest Rolling Stone piece slamming the Obama administration’s economic sell-out, calling it a “nightmare of a story:” Tim Fernholz: The piece is a factual mess, a conspiracy theorist’s dream, doesn’t even indict Obama for his real failures…and of course invokes the cold hands of Bob Rubin like a bogeyman at every turn.
This is pernicious for a lot of journalistic reasons, but politically it’s bad for progressives because conspiracy theories stand in the way of good policy analysis and good activism, replacing them with apathy and fear.
Fernholz then lists 15 points he says are errors in the article.
What worries him is that all serious critiques of Obama’s policies will be lumped with “Taibbi’s meandering conspiracy:”
Is it disconcerting that employees of the financial industry make a ton of money? Yes. Is it the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street problematic? Yes. Does the Administration take it too easy on the banks? Absolutely. Are White House advisers too centrist for progressive tastes? Sure. But when you try and tell that story with a lot of lies and innuendo, and misunderstand the basic policies that these people are producing, you don’t hurt them. Now anyone who criticizes the Administration will just be lumped in with Taibbi’s meandering conspiracy.
Taibbi will likely hit back. At least that’s what he did after Charlie Gasparino wrote a take-down of his controversial piece on Goldman Sachs this summer.
Some commenters on the American Prospect site are siding with Taibbi, calling Fernholz an Obama apologist.
“How does it feel to be a second rate Ari Fleischer? Apologia is all the so-called progress media has left,” wrote “soullite.” Or this from “Paul B:” “Really, these countless apologies for Obama are getting tired.”
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406176/posts
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“Obama’s Big Sellout
Rolling Stone ^ | 12/09/09 | MATT TAIBBI
The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway
Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers “at the expense of hardworking Americans.” Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it’s not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.
Then he got elected.
What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406207/posts
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“Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
“The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
ET,
My comment came out before your posting.
I hadn’t considered your premise before but our end results are somewhat similar. Could be. I think he was fine with the ‘job’ but he now knows what it entails and he is way out of his league. He has neither the intellect nor the stamina. He is gaunt looking and it is wearing on him. I think he will refuse to run again (JMO). That may be the “Achilles’ heel” in the master plan.
Again, JMO
Goreacle Report: Ich Bin Ein Cottager Detainee.
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“Cottage country digs out from full metre of snow
CTV.ca – 2 hours ago
Cottage country roads are reopen and homeowners continue the big dig after as much as a metre of snow was dumped along the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay.”
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“Copenhagen police detain 900 in climate change rally
BBC News – 57 minutes ago
Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen say 900 protesters have been detained following a huge climate change rally. The move came after youths threw bricks and smashed windows as more than 30000 demonstrators marched to demand action at the UN climate”
Garry – I’m with you. I agree with you totally.
Dang,
That’s “Erik”…sorry.
ET, your analysis may be correct, but there is no position that would bring an adulation that could equal that of the President of the United States of America. He has the White House, Camp David, the staff, the Secret Service, Air Force One, the Presidential helicopter, the press. He is Commander In Chief, escorted and saluted wherever he goes. He has the attention of the world in a way that no other man has. I am saying there is no “greater thing”. If he quits, he will loose almost all of it.
Also, the USA has been through much worse than Obama. Their leaders and their fortunes may come and go but their love for their country and for their freedom has survived. Do not like to see them written off so easily for if the USA goes down, so does Canada. We are tied inextricably.
Wanted to respond to batb @ 1:04, but I guess any comment with G*d in it won’t be permitted. What’s the problem?
If Obama wants a speaking career,it is his for the asking. Clinton and Gore can attest to that.
Snagglepuss – did you type in “Ob*ma”? 🙂
Erik- Ha! not a chance. Not an idol worshipper.
HeyheylbO’narcissist.
O is a Democrat in the line of Wilson, FDR, Truman, JFK, Johnson, Carter, Clinton.
Democrats protest their own O’Democrat’s war.
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.” (o.c.)
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“US Protesters Seek New Anti-War Movement
Voice Of America ^ | 12/12/09 | Nico Colombant
Hundreds of protesters have gathered near the White House to try and start a new anti-war movement. Saturday’s demonstration closely follows President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, in which he said war is sometimes needed to establish lasting peace. Demonstrators in Washington opposed this view, as well as the president’s request for 30,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“Make it personal, make it personal, because killing is personal. It’s immoral. It’s personal,” chanted protesters.
Former Democratic Alaska Senator and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel led protesters in anti-war chants, while calling for a mass movement to help end U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The gathering, full of peace signs, anti-war posters, and one mock Guantanamo detainee, began under sunny,but cold skies with music from the hip-hop band Head-Roc.
The headline speaker at the event was current U.S. Democratic Representative from Ohio Dennis Kucinich.
“We must rally, protest, march to exercise our civic capacity to bring about real change. Congress must take responsibility. I will soon introduce two bills invoking the War Powers Act, which will force votes on withdrawal from Afghanistan. The decision to go to war is not the president’s alone to make” stated Kucinich.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406400/posts
That’s not an anti-war movement, that’s a pro-al-Qaeda movement.