Shut Up, Liberals! Eight Months Is Long Enough

The Politicizer ^ | September 17, 2009 | Alec Jacobs

[FMoran]

I can’t express how tired I am of hearing conversations in which conservatives aren’t allowed to question anything Obama does without being told by liberals that “it’s too soon to criticize.” Not only is this absurd, it’s hypocritical: this comes from the same people (liberal bloggers, liberal pundits, and average liberal Americans) who were criticizing George W. Bush immediately after he took office. Conversations like the following have become almost standard in discussions about the Obama presidency:

CONSERVATIVE: Boy, President Obama is doing a terrible job with regard to [insert any failed Obama policy/action/misstep here. Examples include the stimulus bill, the public option, choosing Joe Biden as his running mate, etc. The list goes on.]!

LIBERAL: Hey man, it’s only been [insert the amount of time Obama has been President, whether it’s five days or eight months]! You can’t fairly judge him based on [again, amount of time he has been president]. You need to wait out his first term and see how it goes, kind of like how we did with George W. Bush, who we treated fairly and respectfully and who we never booed during a joint session of Congress!

CONSERVATIVE: Wait, you guys—

LIBERAL: [Sense someone about to challenge his opinion] Gotta run!

How long do conservatives have to wait before speaking up about the president’s policies without liberals crying foul, and saying that it hasn’t been a long enough time to judge? This is an actual question that I want to propose to those reading this. Do conservatives wait a year? The rest of his term? Several years after his first (and only) term is over, so that there has been a proper reflection period?

[FMoran]

The writer is getting attacked for making this valid point by a bunch of liberals in the comments.

[ClearCase_guy]

Criticism of The One is double-plus ungood.

[John.Galt2012]

Good use of newspeak.

[gwilhelm56]

so I had to add my 2 cents worth.. that the article proves the statement “To anger a conservative - LIE to him.. to anger a LIBERAL - tell him the TRUTH”

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are just repeating all the zero supporter talking points, i.e. the zero inherited this from Bush and it’s not his fault. Never mind his promise that unemployment wouldn’t go above 8% if the stimulus package was passed.