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

[Yo_Mama]

96. No, that's not lynching at all

It's one man speaking his mind, not a bloodthirsty mob killing a helpless victim.

This is a form of argument that we on DU engage in all the time, as in "Republicans want poor people to starve" (food stamp cuts). And so forth. It links the policy to a possible result, and claims that the policy originators want the result.

It is not lynching. Whether it's a fair type of criticism or not I leave up to you, but the reality is that drone attacks do serve as recruiting material for terrorist groups.

Just because he's president doesn't mean that he has great options. The claim in the article could be true, and yet the prez might be doing the best he can under the circumstances. Drone attacks also are a weapon against established terrorist groups. Sometimes every option one has is bad.

It's flat-out wrong to claim that the left is trying to lynch the president just because they say the same things about the same policies that they did when those policies were Bush policies.

In fact, I'll go further and say that those who DON'T criticize policies of a Democratic politician when they do criticize the same policies if implemented by a Republican president are hypocrites, not heroes. The OP particularly irritated me in reference to the left because the left worked very hard in both campaigns to get President Obama in office. Apparently the OP article author then thinks they are forced to shut up for eight years? Is that even remotely reasonable? Would it be good for the country? I can't believe it would.