The Left Nails their Messiah to the Cross: But Have they Truly abandoned Him? |
Three years-ago, President Obama could walk on water and raise a dying economy, but lately the left has been nailing their Messiah to the cross,declaring Obama “caved on the debt ceiling” and compromised to Republican policies. The Left is angry with Mr. Obama. The Anointed One failed to change America into his promised John Rawls-style state of leftist social equality and that wealth-spreading social justice.
Nevertheless, conservatives should not assume the left will abandon its Anointed One. After all, the left wants expanding government and radical collective policies, so, while they may hurl Obama under the bus from time-to-time, the left will not run him over.
Under the Obama Administration, progressives recouped some of its lost ground. Government spending increased dramatically, Welfare Reform and Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell were repealed, Obamacare was signed into law and unemployment benefits have been considerably extended causing many Americans to choose this form of glorified welfare over seeking jobs. These developments fit the leftist Utopian dream and should have them praising Obama’s achievements. However, Obama’s policies have falteredlately: Job loss numbers have soared to historic highs across the country, including those environmental green jobs companies the left established with great fanfare, but are now going bankrupt.
Furthermore, those massive Federal government bail-outs to failing banks and governmental financed automobile companies never stimulated the economy or created jobs needed for a healthy nation. This has unions angry with the president’s “handling of unemployment and labor issues.”
Also, Obama never delivered on his promises to implement amnesty for illegal immigrants and this has his Hispanic voting base none too happy with the open borders president. Making matters worse, Obama never kept his promise to close Guantanimo Bay and end the War on Terror. Instead, he escalated the war in Afghanistan and embarked on an expensive and useless war in Libya, albeit the latter is an air war without U.S. troops on the ground. And though Obama called for the reduction of U.S. military presence in Iraq to 5,000 men by the end of the year this so-called promise remains to be seen.
The only thing Mr. Obama seems to be delivering is empty speeches even the left is fed up with listening to. Obama’s biggest supporters—the media—are now wielding their mighty pen against his glorified policies.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who normally showers Obama with praise, hurled criticism against Obama this past August, declaringthe “redeemer” is in “need of redemption himself,” he appears lost in ‘his political skills” and is “making mistakes” he is unable to “learn from.” Dowd called Obama a great disappointment to his Democratic base.
Huffington Post reporter Amenda Terkel echoed Dowd’s words, saying Obama has disappointed House and Senate Democrats who believed Obama would keep his promise to pull U.S. Troops out of Afghanistan this year.
This month, Dowd described Obama’s “actions” as “disrespectful:”
On the razor’s edge of another recession; blocked at every turn by Republicans determined to slice him up at any cost; starting an unexpectedly daunting re-election bid; and puzzling over how to make a prime-time speech about infrastructure and payroll taxes soar, maybe President Obama is wishing that he had thrown the game. The leader who was once a luminescent, inspirational force is now just a guy in a really bad spot.
Dowd went further, calling Obama and his administration’s tactics “…flailing — reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It’s repugnant,” and Obama’s TV appearances are “so cocky,” Dowd agrees with Democrat strategist James Carville’s remarks that he would rather watch a Republican debate than listen to another Obama speech.
My advice to Obama is take the Democrat rout and go for an all-out sex scandal invloving your Blackberry. At least that would have Joan Walsh and leftist feminists defending Obama as the greatest president since Bill Clinton dropped his pants for feminism.
The reason for the left's rabid reaction is progressives believe Obama is only talking about raising taxes and government spending. Never mind this is something he has already done to excess by creating more government jobs through Obamacare. But such radical policies are not radical enough for progressive,s who feel Obama sold them out, making the Republicans look like the job-focused party the left demandsis misleadingly convincing Americans that tax cuts create jobs.
Actaully tac-cuts do create jobs, but that's the problem--more jobs means less dependence on the government and the left won't have anyof that. So Obama better shape up and ship out more government programs to destroy wealth in America.
Still, the left should not be shocked over Obama’s game of polarized politics used to mobilize the masses for political gain. It's the same Saul Alinsky game the left uses and propped Obama upon in order to make him president: As Democrat strategist Pat Cadell told Fox News Obama’s “agenda” is not about job creation, rather it is “totally focused politically,” making Americans, especially Obama voters, ask themselves ‘Does this guy have any idea what he’s doing?’”
The left believes Obama’s political skills have become lethargic; his policies are failing, because he’s not pushing “a bold jobs agenda while drawing a strong line on taxes and protecting Medicare and Social Security.” In other words, socialism has not been implemented in America to the full degree of collective government control, distribution of wealth, and ending the war.
Washington Post’s Herald Meyerson demands:
Mr. President, it’s time to go big on the economic solutions. It’s time to propose a massive second stimulus, offset by some serious tax hikes and budget cuts once the economy regains a semblance of good health.
Huffington Post columnist Ken Thomas says if Obama continues disappointing Democrats by not hiking taxes on the rich and ending the War on Terror, “Obama’s reelection chances are open to question.” Thomas says the left is becoming angry enough to ignore Obama in the 2012 election to the point of staying home on Election Day.
But would the left truly abandon Obama? That is highly doubtful since the left never questions itself, rather falls in line to push forth its radical agendas no matter who they must destroy to accomplish the goal.
The left wants Obama to deliver the promise he announced in last Thursday night’s speech—more crippling stimulus packages that destroyed the economy. And Obama gave his progressive base just that, causing Meyerson to reverse his disappointment by praising Obama as “Enlivened,” “impassioned, indignant, non-professorial,” causing Obama’s base to “breathe sigh a relief” over the new proposed jobs bill designed to spiral America further into debt.
If Conservatives conclude from the above quotes that Obama is in grave jeopardy for 2012’s election, they should think again. University of Virginia’s political expert Larry Sabato wrote in the Wall Street Journal that a count of Electoral College votes in states that remain in Mr. Obama’s camp indicate he may already have 247 votes out of the 270 needed for reelection. Florida’s 29 electoral votes alone could do the trick for him. So, although many Democrats may reverse on Obama and vote for the GOP candidate, the radical left will never abandon their Anointed One despite, from time-to-time, nailing him to the cross in anger.
The point is media pundits and labor supporters of Mr. Obama may fume about his political moves — some for the purpose of rousing intense feelings among the opposing parties —but the president’s allies recognize they have nowhere else to turn to achieve their Utopian goals. This realization, however, does not exist as intensively among the variety of Republican and Independent party members. Should any in these latter groups divide in pique for reasons concerning their more parochial interests, this could lead to a dampening of support that could win reelection for Obama.
Conservatives should not be beguiled by expressions of anger toward Obama from his disappointed constituencies. While the anger may be genuine enough, it is not likely to turn progressive voters anywhere else but to Obama. Meanwhile, an over confident conservative opposition may misjudge just how close the race actually is and how intensively they must work to unify and bring out their votes to remove this administration that wishes to radically “change” the country in ways unrecognizable from the capitalist system that has made it the envy of the world.
The left may nail Obama to the cross for not delivering the full force of socialism, but don’t assume they’ve abandoned their Anointed One. No matter how bad the policies fail, the left, umlike the right, will stand by their man and defend his disasterous tactics.
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