'Adopting GOP beliefs' is not the same as being forced to compromise with a radical, hate-filled GOP Congressional majority and lock-step GOP Senate, to save the lives Obama knows will be lost.
The GOP threatens to shut down the government at every turn, knowing it will cause violent rebellion, which they want to use to step into power with and go full fascist. They've bred discontent and paranoia to both sides, since they own all of the media and cater to the left, too.
For their faithful, their pundits have called for the death of Obama OPENLY since Day One. They paid for movies saying Obama intends to slaughter most of mankind. For the left, they slant every single thing that Obama did, not to save lives, but to make his actions hateful to the left, so they will bow to them, too.
When Obama said he was humbled to be president for over 300 million people, he said it was an awesome responsibility. It is a fearful thing. Humility and compromise, no matter how distasteful, is required. As an advocate, I know about being forced to be humble enough to make compromise with powerful people I consider villains, because lives are at stake, not my pride, or my own morality. We don't get to give all we want to those we protect.
The way some 'left' pundits pile on Obama, it's like accusing a carjacking victim of 'believing' that the carjacker was right. That with a gun to their head, threatening to shoot the driver, his family, even his dog in the back seat, he believes it is okay.
Obama has been dealing with these extortionists since he arrived in office. As far as his sin of appointing 'evil people' in his cabinet and elsewhere, the pundits may have forgotten the objections to his liberal appointments by the regressive representatives. These pundits don't dirty their hands by going to the grassroots level, when criticizing a president is so much easier and attention getting.
By not voting, which gave Obama the Tea Party, Americans have voted for the regressives, the status quo. So Obama is reacting to the reality we gave him, which doesn't mean he wants it. But by not supporting his progressive agenda by electing representatives to vote with him, the man has to be wondering if anyone believes in what he ran on anymore. It's still not the man, it's the ideas and Greenwald's focus on the man diverts our energy from them.
Obama's promoting and signing progressive legislation in 2009, which no one seems to remember, drove the GOP absolutely NUTS and they brought in the baggers. They had conspiracy media promoting an alternative reality about things that have never come true, mandatory forced vaccinations, the Obama youth squads set to drag Constitution-loving Americans out of their homes, race riots of suddenly empowered AA's rising up to kill whitey, a flood of illegals and Muslims to create Greater Aztlan, the worldwide calipate, Sharia law, gun confiscation and people being rounded up into FEMA camps.
It never stops and now the 'left' has gone into the same conspiracy mindset, just as intended, as if there is no middle ground between Prison Planet and the Left now. At some point one has to look at where the left meets these rightwing nutjobs and call it like it is.
They are NOT now and have not been, looking out for the millions that the GOP wanted off the rolls, not looking out for the millions on Social Security, Medicare or any of that. No, they will bite your head off if you mention the big picture.
Greenwald has great arguments, but he's into personal attack mode, questioning the motives of Obama since it inflames and it sells. The reason it sells is because of the GOP owned media that has made this environment. He's just contributing to their victory.
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