Obama Harshly Criticizes Progressives
First it was Rahm Emmanuel calling the liberals and progressives “retards.” Now it is Robert Gibbs saying really bad things about the left. He is using the same sorts of lies to criticize the left that one normally hears on Fox. You can be certain that in each of these attacks, the men involved were just surrogates acting as President Obama's mouthpiece.
These people apparently aren't very bright. They don't seem to realize that it is the liberals and progressives who got Obama elected. They are now so blinded with the Washington D.C. desire to stay in power that they can no longer see reality and the truth.
Obama has not fulfilled his campaign promises. Not by a long shot.
He has not closed down all of the secret prisons and shut Guantanamo, nor has he brought all the troops home from Iraq. They plan to leave 50,000 troops and countless mercenaries (contractors) there, apparently endlessly. He has greatly increased troop levels and spending on the hopeless situation supporting Karzai's corrupt and inept regime in Afghanistan.
Gibbs says that the left wants Canadian style healthcare in America, to which he says, “That's not reality.” I would ask that Obama or Gibbs explain their defeatist attitude on healthcare. Please explain why Canada and many other countries can do a good job on this, but we can't seem to here in America. During the campaign Obama publicly said that he favored “single payer” healthcare. I have seen the YouTube video. When this proved to be just a tiny bit difficult, he didn't even support the far weaker “vigorous government option.” No balls or backbone. President Obama was working towards cost control, not universal healthcare.
Gibbs claimed very clearly that the left wants the Pentagon to be totally eliminated. That is the same sort of lie and exaggeration that I would expect to hear from Rush Limbaugh. Arguing that a substantial cut in funding for the Pentagon is in order is far different than asking for its total elimination. This kind of dishonest attack is vile.
Obama kept on most of the right wing Bush economics team. Since his background in economics is very weak, and he is surrounded by Wall Street crooks, of course his policies have favored super-wealthy people much more than the middle or working classes. His Wall Street reforms to re-regulate the financial industry are so timid and weak that they are laughable. The man said he was a community organizer. Organizer for what, the chamber of commerce and the Republican party?
Just before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama approved offshore oil drilling in environmentally sensitive and controversial areas which even Bush-Cheney didn't dare. Obama talks a good game about green and renewable energy, but his actions have been the most anti-environmental and pro-nuclear of any president in the last 30 years.
He has not done much to help gays in the military, nor has his record on civil rights been anything to brag about. Other than appointing a Latina woman to the supreme court he hasn't done much to help women, blacks, or Mexican-Americans. In fact, more of these Mexicans are being deported under Obama than under Bush.
Illegal aliens from Mexico are still being treated like slaves by their greedy American employers. They are not accorded the same OSHA and other worker rights as American citizens. Keep them frightened and obsequious. It helps profits.
Prior to this latest Obama attack on progressives and liberals I had thought that I would very likely grudgingly vote for his re-election (but not work in his campaign). As weak and ineffective as Obama is, he is far better than John Boner.
Now that both Rahm Emmanuel and Robert Gibbs have been asked to attack the progressives and liberals my attitude is hardening substantially. It now is coming down to whether I will just stay home or whether I will actively work for the replacement of Obama and his wannabe Republican team.
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