Saturday, February 21, 2009
Not Been Paying Attention, Hunh?
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What's left of the loony right has been so busy snarling about all the efforts to fix the crap they left behind them, that they've never looked long enough to see what has been there to see.
Many on the right have bought into the echo-chamber concept that Barack Obama is some scary Leftie bomb-thrower.
Um, sorry guys, but no. He's not.
During the campaign, he started out to the right of Hillary Clinton, then only shifted left when she didn't shift quickly enough. One of his very first announcements on the campaign trail when few were listening was that re-doing Social Security was a great idea.
That, my friends, is no Leftie bomb, no matter who is doing the throwing. He caught a decent amount of flack for those comments, so he dropped the issue faster than a Non-Person in Russia.
Why the Left chose to embrace him, especially when he never set out to court the Progressive Left, rather than John Edwards, who did indeed court the Left, and whose proposals are aimed for the Left, remains a mystery.
But if our friends on the Right would calm down a bit and listen a tad more, rather than yowling at the moon so often, they'd most likely hear a lot more from Obama that's to their liking. And the adoring throngs on the Left would actually hear a bit more, like this Detainee issue, that fills them with dread.
posted by Gotham 4:33 PM
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