It's hate. Period.

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403. Honest question, please don't attack me: "enabler"? Isn't what calls itself "the Left" PUSHING him

to the right by abandoning him.

He's a politician. ALL of the issues are his responsibility. When he looses support he moves to where his support is in order to accomplish whatever he can on any one or more off the other issues the supporters of which are NOT abandoning him.

He's supposed to get stuff done and he has to have support to get it done, so he goes where the support is. That's the way it works, whether it should or not. If you don't support, your issue(s) become less and less and less of a priority.

Do anti-Obama people around here actually think that attacking him, especially personally, and abandoning him and engaging in propaganda campaigns to get others to abandon him is going to result in making him do what they want?

That's so naive it's unbelievable, so I think they don't think that and this whole thing really is about how failure on Leftie issues is supposed to build a political base for what calls itself "the Left", that is . . . after it separates itself from the Libertarians they've been hitching a ride with. And the Libertarians will be just fine about all of that, because they'll get what they want out of it: 1. LGBT Civil Right to Marry (which reaches across all party lines) 2. the legalization of cannabis (which also reaches across all party lines) 3. a paralyzed government that interferes no further in the birthing of stateless "citizens of the archipelagos".