Saturday, May 30, 2009

Hope 'n Change?

Ted Rall is an editorial cartoonist, sometime columnist, and author of the raving liberal lunatic persuasion. He's not someone I'd normally find myself agreeing with. He is someone I'd expect to be a rabid Obama supporter.

So imagine my surprise when I read one of his columns this morning, to find that contained the following (but not out of context!) quotes:
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through...

...Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss...

...Obama is cute. He is charming. But there is something rotten inside him...
Whoa, there, lefty. Steady on, there, Ted. And right on!

In my own defense, the reasons behind these quotes are most definitely not the reasons I might use in arriving at the same conclusions.

I guess this is some evidence that Obama is moving toward the “center” (whatever that actually is). Long reviled from the right, he's now starting to be reviled from the “respectable” left...

1 comment:

  1. I'm sure you've read this pravda article. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/ I fail to understand how, after seeing what has happened to Russian and Cuba and Venezuela and even much of Europe, anyone can possibly think that where we are headed could be good. How does it feel to have your government run every aspect of your life? How does it feel to have your government spying on your every move. How does it feel to have your government spirit people away without due process? How does it feel to have your government working to destroy our constitutionally guaranteed rights? Frankly I'm losing hope.

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