The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer

[DonCoquixote]

22. Ugly truths

Did Obama lurch things to the right when many of us elected him to be at the very least, left of the Clintons?, yes, he did. He showed that when he let the public option be choked, and when he did not send Wall Streetcrooks to jail? Has he shown that he is too wiling to make nice, too wanting to be liked, to eager to show himself as not scary, yes. Has he bought into the whole "america is a bastion of rfeedom", yes, all of this has been true, and those reasons make for valid, honest critques that is not only our right to make, but our DUTY.

However, were there people, on what is called both the "left", and what is called "the right" who had it in for him before he even stepped in the door, yes, he did. From Ted Rall, to Maureen Dowd, there were people who were self appointed spokespeople for the left that hated Obama because if he succeeded, their vision of the left would be discredited, be it violent revolution and stalinist purges (Ted Rall worte a book glorifying the idea in his "anti-american manifesto.&quot or the eternal reign of Divine Holy Empress Hillary of the house of Clinton (you can reduce every Dowd column to "Hillary would have done it better.&quot Let's not even get into the folks like the Naders, Hamshers, and Huffingtons who railed against Obama for compromise, yet never seem to have a problem taking money from the right wing, much less ask themselves why the right keeps sending them money (can you say "useful idiots" boys and girls?) No, I am not going to forgive Medea Benjamin for sending Ron Paul a literal Valentine, when she knows Ron is the reason so many Texan women cannot get an abortion. No, I am not going to forget Glenn Greenwald, hero of civil liberty, was the same asshole that defended Citizen's United. Call it attacking the messenger all you want, but just because I can acknowledge the truth they incovered does not mean I have to forget that their agenda and mine do not mix, because they are willing to feed the same Plutocratic dragons that want to eat us all in the end, from Reagan Democrat to Deep Red Marxiist.