Obama Hack-onistes: First, he triggers party identification problems among progressives. Now it looks like he's also losing the critical, extreme left seal of approval.
Obama Hack-onistes: First, he triggers party identification problems among progressives. Now it looks like he’s also losing the critical, extreme-left seal of approval.
But calling president Obama “too conservative” is unfair (especially to conservatives – oh, and remember when Reagan was not a conservative? Revisionism levels getting critical!).
The problem is not that Obama is too conservative. He just doesn’t have what it takes to be president of the U.S. of A., ideology notwithstanding. Banana republic? Sure. Mayor of Chicago. Probably. But POTUS? Not at all. How else can you explain that Obama keeps failing to make his base happy despite having had an overwhelming Democrat majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Democrat majority in the Senate for two full years?
Obama’s weaknesses should have been evident to all Lefties in 2008, but his marketeers ably diverted most people’s attention from his shortcomings with the aid of many a Leftie voice (JournoList anyone?). And now they are all mopey and disappointed because – guess what? – reading pretty from a TelePrompter, writing books, and graduating from Harvard do not qualify you for the Oval Office. Who knew?
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks, Ed!
