For the love of God, Hayden! Please ponder the implications
It’s time to strip the Obama sticker off my car… To be clear: I’ll support Obama down the road against Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs or any of the pitchfork carriers for the pre-Obama era. But no bumper sticker until the withdrawal strategy is fully carried out.
As previously noted, Digby pointed out the absurdity of reading Obama’s Afghanistan policy as a “betrayal” here. But the bumper sticker comment is worth calling out on its own because it’s a textbook example of the type of self-important nincompoopery that invariably has the exact opposite effect its practitioners intend. And it illustrates why it’s so easy for politicians, media figures, etc., to ignore lefty issues.
It’s not just starry-eyed Obama supporters like Hayden (who apparently never understood Obama’s policies to begin with); it’s so-called feminists who back wingnut loons like Bachmann and Palin solely because they’re women. It’s health care reform advocates who make a career of gnashing their teeth and rending their garments because single-payer was taken off the table.
It’s the motley assortment of the professionally aggrieved who keep Café Press in business. You name the issue, and there will be a small but vocal contingent that functions as our own corollary to the ridiculous teabagger movement.
There’s plenty to be dissatisfied about with the Obama administration. I disagree with the Afghanistan strategy and outlined the speech I thought he should give two months ago. I think Obama himself has been inexcusably apathetic about LGBT issues. I think he should replace Tim Geithner with Elizabeth Warren—yesterday.
But acting like a puling toddler over it isn’t going to help, and neither is going into the discussion on false assumptions as Hayden did. Just sayin.
BTW, if you Google “Geithner,” the third search term is TIMOTHY GEITHNER JEWISH. I don’t know about y’all, but I get the feeling, as we fiddle down the avenue in our smoldering empire, that the woods are filled with some truly crazy, dangerous people. That’s another reason to shut the fuck up about goddamn bumper stickers already.
Posted by Betty Cracker on 12/03/09 at 02:55 PM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • Barack Obama • Nutters • Our Stupid Media •
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