In Character

Highlighting the other day Obama’s broken campaign promises, his politics-as-usual WH, his string of foreign policy failures, his stealth leveraging of race, his constant whining about how tough he’s got it, our nursery friend responded: “I still like him. I hate Dick Cheney.” (Ask this guy about the weather, his band, the time of day, same answer - “I hate Dick Cheney.” Not the Muslim thugs who would shoot him on sight, not his own Dodd and Frank who triggered the financial crisis, no, only Cheney.) Of course as most of us understand, what’s this have to do with bo’s failures?

Those two sentences, both designed to camouflage, reflect the foundation of retreat for this group. Cheney kept their hind ends safe for 8 years during which time all they did was criticize him for the effort. But since BO has now disappointed even his most ardent supporters, best thing is to pull out the Cheney-foil as cover, even 18 months later. That, and the racist tool are both past their once high altitude of fashion; it’s only the far left who haven’t caught on. And the rest? Chuckling.

And why are they surprised? Why for example does the old lefty Dan Ellsberg respond as follows in appraising his on-time hero, BO - “He's a good politician. He said what he needed to say to get elected, and now he's just taking advantage of the office. ...... his administration caters to the profits of big corporations like BP and Goldman Sachs,"?

Why do these people suffer so? Do they ever read anything but Cosmo and Time? We imagine ‘ol Dan has progressed from that. Then why are he and the rest of the chatterers surprised? BO is acting perfectly in character. He holds forth as if in a fish bowl, unable to comprehend, or not wanting to comprehend the consequences of his radical agenda - a perfect reflection of his radical past.

We have never blamed Obama; we have blamed those who pulled the trigger - for their lack of scholarship.

Robert Craven