Heh.

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197. "post-partisan ideology"

He wants a statue. He wants EVERYONE to love him. He thinks such silliness is possible. The laughingly unwarranted Nobel Peace Prize should be enough, but is it?

Meanwhile, the ultra-inclusive self-worshiping corporatist sanctimony is not a great act of forward-looking genius, it's all done at our expense. There WILL BE NO POST-PARTISAN POLITICS in the near future: they play for keeps and we play for some kind of approval that will never come.

It's about him. It's a cult. It's tiresome.

He has violated the UN Participation Act more than any President except Truman. He has violated the War Powers Resolution more than any President than Clinton.

As for consistency, he played fast and loose with people's expectations, and, if you use the asshole right-wing metric that it's all the fault of the customer, he's fine. If you use anything akin to a moral judgment of what is to be expected from one's stated purpose, he fails resoundingly: he ducked most moments of standing for or against various policies, and he has consistently striven to be above the law.

He is not a leader; he is a campaigner. Somehow, regardless of how he strips our Constitutional rights from us and enables financial fraud and wars of aggression, he is still the beneficiary of undying love from those who would NEVER tolerate such actions from a Republican. The most important issue at hand is the environment, and he's shown himself to be the WD-40 of Corporatism on that front.

Save your ridicule for the clueless.

By the way, do you still claim--as you did endlessly--that the attack on Libya without a vote of both Houses of Congress was not a violation of the UN Participation Act of 1945? Do you still claim that attacking Libya without a Congressional declaration of war, authorization of force or in response to an attack was not a violation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973? Do you contest that the War Powers Resolution of 1973 is the law of the land that governs powers granted in the Constitution?

You seem to be backing off from calling people "dishonest" lately. I guess that's from backlash here on the board.

"Post-Partisanship" is just another expression of the self-aggrandizing ego fantasizing that one is so personally fabulous that one's own personal specialness transcends mere mortal travails.

I have children and a life, and I'm not going to throw those things away just so a bunch of narcissists can keep alive the weird fantasy that this man is a living god. I'm also not going to let them kill inconvenient foreigners who stand in the way of mineral riches. I deeply resent the continual calls for us to shut up when those of our side are doing more to destroy all that is good and true about our country than the Republicans.

They hate us. Sucking up to them is stupidity; the only reason any sentient being would do so is out of a need to be morally superior or to garner support from the right that will never come.