Obama Gets Left Behind http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/06/02/obama-gets-left-behind/3/ Come on now. Is Obama really a psychopathic megalomaniac? I learned of Obamas problems today. Not from Ron Paul supporters. Not from Glenn Becks Drudge wanna-be news site The Blaze. I read about Obamas psychosis from left wing Democrats. Everyday I get emails from former members of Move On, a pro-Democratic Party group that was famously active during the build-up to the Iraq War in 2003. Theyre complaining about one man: President Obama. In these emails, one thing is apparent. When it comes to the left wing liberals, Obama is being left behind. The left was mostly raptured into political heaven four years ago when they elected Obama on bended knee. He spoke about things dear to their hearts: closing Guantanamo Bay. Ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting tough on bankers. Guantanamo is still open. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, but the military presence remains. (Smacks of imperialism. Thats something the left hates as much as libertarians do.) Then theres the presidents bit about getting tough on bankers. Where has the White House come down hard on Wall Street? Fuhgeddaboudit. This is New York! One anti-Obama Saturday in my inbox: Re: Write-in Kermit the Frog! If being a pragmatist or a realist means choosing only amongst evils, count us OUT. Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evils. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when they are NOT. Ezili Danto, human rights lawyer at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network Re: Obama is a psychopath; reminds me of Stalin Theres a cancer in the presidency called Barack Obama. We have a psychopathic megalomaniac occupying the White house who could be compared to Nero, Caligula, Stalin, or Pol Pot in his disdain for human life. He and his coven of other like minded DC psychopaths and sociopaths are on a murdering spree and like a third world dictator Obama can have someone and their family (including you) executed or blasted to smithereens with a thumbs up or down. This is sickening to me. They are so blase about murdering that they refer to the hit list photos as baseball cards. Killing is a game or a sport to them. There is a cancer on the Presidency and that cancer has metastasized throughout Washington DC. It was there before Obama arrived but he brought a whole new and virulent strain with him. Every time there is a shameful incident or embarrassing event perpetrated by a few bad apples we hear from the DC psychopaths that That is not who we are. They are incorrect. It is who they are in DC. It is not who we the real everyday thinking feeling Americans are. I certainly am not one of the people to be included in their cumulative we. Alexander Cockburn, writing for his online publication Counterpunch. Alexander is also a columnist at The Nation, though I have a hard time believing this missive will make it passed Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Alex is a firebrand. Ive written for him once or twice, and he was kind enough to comment on my reporting about the Iraq War for The Boston Globe in 2003 in his Beat the Devil column. This sounds like Alex being Alex, alright. Gotta love his fire. Re: Bush mighta been better. Hello! Why should the public believe what the Obama administration says about the people being assassinated by drones? Especially since, as we learn in the New York Times, the administration came up with a semantic solution to keep the civilian death toll to a minimum: simply count all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants. The rationale, reminiscent of George Zimmermans justification for shooting Trayvon Martin, is that people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good. Talk about profiling! At least when George Bush threw suspected militants into Guantanamo their lives were spared. Medea Benjamin, CodePINK Obamas dealings with the working stiff, or the perceived lack thereof, plus his foreign policy has caused much of the anger against him among the left wing of the party. Im not a blue dog democrat. Im a hard hat Democrat from Massachusetts; like the guys who climb telephone poles after hurricanes that vote for Kennedy. Thats where I cast my lot. I voted for Obama through the U.S. Consulate in São Paulo. Obama was different. He was inspiring. I watched the votes unfold on two laptops one on CNN, one on MSNBC with emails from my American friends flooding in every minute. My Blackberry was on my lap, blowing up with texts can you believe North Carolina? It never happens! Obamas winning was like a moon landing. You noticed it more when youre overseas. America did it again, Brazilians told me. The world can elect women presidents. Its happened before. But what advanced economy has ever elected a black man? None. Not Europe. Not Latin America. Not Australia. Not even close. Theyre not even on the ballot. Only in America. What a country. Yes, You Can! It made so much sense. My former Chicago-based editor from Dow Jones even mailed me a T-shirt with Obamas slogan on it. I wore it to bed. Until I got sick of it. The shirt. Not the slogan. Or Obama, necessarily. Thought I have to say that I think the truth, once again, is not yes or no, it is more like maybe. Maybe, You Can. That doesnt sound right. But its true. I understand thats not very optimistic. Americans like to believe we can do anything we want, so long as we work really hard. Yes, we can! We tell ourselves that. Oh, no some can. Most cant. But hey, maybe you can. Thats a different argument. Im talking about equality. A fair shake. Im talking about people working hard and having something to show for it, rather than a life of lowering expectations, of moving one step forward and one and half steps back. Medea and Alex are talking about drones. Most Americans probably dont care about drones. But most care about equality and fairness. I think Obama would win on fairness versus any Republican. The left is a lot like the right. Bombastic. Deeply ideological. Never happy with their politics. On the next page, a liberal environmental activist explains how the left and the right are actually quite similar. Know where I learned that? Antioch College. You dont get any more left wing than Antioch College. When I entered the school in the 1990s, they required male students have a signed contract from female students before they had sex. The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender students once hung a sign painted on a white sheet they hung one floor above the cafeteria door. It was for the hetero males. It read: Dont blame us if you cant get laid. That was my liberal school. One adjunct professor with environmental activist blood in her veins, and whose name I cannot remember, explained to me how the left was like the right. It was one afternoon after class, during the Newt Gingrich Contract With America years, when she drew a basic diagram to explain it all. When she drew it, she purposely didnt connect the start of the circle to the end. There was a hairline fracture in this otherwise perfect basic shape . Where she started drawing the circle, she said, that was the right wing. Where she ended, she pointed out, was the left wing. You see how close they are together? Incredibly close, of course. In their political angst, they are close neighbors. The right left Bush behind, too. They got their wars. They didnt get the Second Coming. They also didnt get to end abortion, or a gay marriage amendment. When Bush left office, he had around a 33% popularity rating. He essentially left Washington with his puppy dog tail between his legs. My bet is he doesnt miss Washington one bit. The right doesnt miss him either. They think Bush failed them. Just like the left thinks Obama has failed them. Another email from Saturday. This one about George Carlin. Not from Carlin, of course. He is dead. Re: Voting is meaningless!!! Youll notice theres one thing I dont complain about. Politicians. Everyone loves to complain about politicians. They say politicians suck. But where do they think these politicians come from? They dont fall out of the sky .they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. This is the best we can do: garbage in, garbage out. Maybe its not the politicians that suck. Maybe its the public. The public sucks. Now theres a nice campaign slogan for someone. I solved this little problem for myself on Election Day, I stay home. I dont vote. Its meaningless. This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. People say if you dont vote, you have no right to complain. But hey, I on the other hand, who did not vote have every right to complain about the mess that you guys voted for and therefore created. George Carlin. See it on YouTube. The Left too is beginning to notice the promises unkept. They have been the biggest suckers in political history because they actually believed in this empty suit of a man. The media is largely responsibile for this unvetted bafoon's reign of failure. Ironically, many of them are in the Funemployment line too. _
So is this your opinion or the opinion of emails sent to the OP Kenneth Rapoza, a Contributor who covers Brazil, Russia, India & China ?
These are the views of former Moveon.org types. They display that Obama is disliked by the old guard Leftists. They must not be on the Soros payroll or holding a federal govt career job. If they were, they'd probably be on Internet forums trying ineffctively to provide Obama with cover.
When you put a totally inexperienced, incompetent clown in office, you get exactly what we got. Complete failure! That's b.o. Only the looniest of the left can accept complete failure and wish for more.
The Hard Left needs to quit crybabying and put up their own alternative. Candidate by candidate, that is what the Tea Party is doing.
the only one with presidential experience in the upcoming election will be Obama Obama has accomplished much, even with the do nothing congress he has had, remember congress writes the bills, Obama only gets to sign em into law after they have been passed by congress what we need is change in congress, the current president is fine
That "Do Nothing Congress" you speak of had Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress for the majority of Obama's time in office, so far. Why do you guys always forget about that? Few Presidents had as easy of a time getting things passed through Congress as Barry Hussein. The fact that Obamacare passed, without A SINGLE Republican vote is all that needs to be said about the "Do Nothing Congress" that did everything for Obama. Be more honest next time before making these kinds of statements that are extremely easy to shoot down with facts.
Sure they are. to: Mr Part-time Newspaper Opinion Writer from: FORMER disgruntled Hussein Obammy worshiper. Oooooo! I just hate me some Obammy right now. I used to be a supporter of that Kenyan, terrorist, Marxist, Muslim dictator, but now I just can't stand him. I have voted Demoncrap my whole life but will now be a proud supporter of the only party that supports Americans, the prestigious super-wonderful-happyfuntime Republican Party! Down with Obammy!
after the shaft the far left progressives gave Hillary they deserve everything they got. If they had been a bit more patient and nominated Hillary and gave Obama a chance to season as VP they could have had 16 years of rule in the oval office. It is funny as hell seeing them squirm now.
They had a tough choice to make. Liberals measure themselves by how much social change they can bring about during their generation, and getting a black guy in the White House was a bolder step forward towards liberal utopia than getting a woman in there. It's just unfortunate that being a black Democrat was the only qualification they cared about, and we ended up with Obama.
yeah I think a lot of it was knowing that they could control Obama like a puppet and he would just eat it up as he did the first 2 years. Mr rock star getting peace prizes and jet setting while nancy, harry and howard dean set the agenda. Hill and Bill would have told them to shove it. The marxist progressives never saw 2010 a coming and now it is biting them on the ass
I ask all of these questions as someone who hates Dick Cheney more than any other human on the planet. He is, in my eyes, the moral equivalent of Ted Bundy, so... What do you think of the fact that Obama resigned the Patriot Act? What do you think of the fact that Obama signed the DAA? How about his neglect of due process to kill American civilians?
And they are out of office. Obama is in office. What's his record? He was supposed to do it all differently, restore hope, blah blah. I'm done with these business as usual types. Give me folksy Ron Paul or I'll write in Mickey Mouse again.
b.o. couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap. Reagan IS immeasurably better than obama could ever dream of being. The others weren't so hot. Just leagues better than obama. b.o. IS by a wide margin, the WORST president in the history of the USA. Was GW Bush bad? Sure, but b.o. is much, much worse.
Reagan helped usher in the second longest peacetime economic expansion in history, creating 16 million jobs. How many has Obama created?
I never realized in '08 how far left of Obama I am... He won't say boo to support the recall Scott Walker effort, Patriot act, the NDAA, Bush tax cuts, federal raids on Cali medical marijuana clinics. The list goes on and on, he started in the center and bargained right from there, and that's when he didn't just cave...
Uhhh, pump the brakes there. GW was horrible. His father, despite that whole working for the devil thing, wasn't so bad. Clinton was the best president in the last twenty years.
OK, Clinton was the best in the last 20 years. Reagan was better, but more than 20 years ago. And obama is clearly the worst in all history. No president has failed as completely and consistently as b.o.,,,,,,,,,,EVER! Unlikely any ever will. We have seen the bottom.
