Posted on 09/06/2009 6:14:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
We now are hearing that President Barack Obama's honeymoon with voters is over, that his poll numbers are falling, that the soaring rhetoric of the campaign no longer makes the Democratic faithful swoon so easily.
If this is a real trend and not temporary disgruntlement, it is a good thing.
For too long, Democrats, especially progressives, have been reluctant to openly criticize Obama, the nation's first black president. They want him to succeed, and they believe that serious public criticism from inside the party would hurt their man and egg on angry Republicans hell-bent on not being reasonable.
Progressives do not seem to realize that support for Obama does not mean that they must ignore truths about his policies. The public interest is undermined when truths about policies are ignored.
If, however, a recent article in the New York Times about the American antiwar movement's plans for a campaign against the administration's policies on Afghanistan is a bellwether of what is to come from progressives on a range of other issues, we are witnessing the emergence of earnest criticism (not the braying of conservative talk show hosts) that has been sorely missing since Obama's election.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
Sorry, but Andrew Jackson was/is considered to be half black by historians...
By his election date I think he beat Zero by at least 140 years....
Really?:)
would you believe 5 black potus???
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-five-black-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america/
No kidding? I’ve never heard this. Yikes. So Baracko isn’t really “historic” at all.
That spin made me so dizzy I can’t see straight.
I'm sick of idiots like you, Maxwell. Quit hiding your damn COMMUNISM behind the "P" word, you cowardly commie a-hole.
Quadroon.
My take from the article is that the only “authorized” dissent allowed is against the Afgan war. Domestic policy is still off limits.
Thanks for posting this. It shows an amazing amount of spin...enough to make most reasonable people lose a meal or three.
The “opposition” is from within his party. Criticism from the right is “braying” that is to be ignored. Progressives are so open minded.
I just read comments in a Huffingtonpost.com article. One commentor fretted about the opposition Obama is receiving within his own party. The commenter believes that Democrat opposition to Obama’s plans are due to....wait for it....racism. Yes - the commenter notes ‘even’ some progressives have never worked for a black man before etc. The ONLY acceptable response to opposition is the charge of racism. But, according to the article featured on this thread, that could be a good thing?
Which, oddly enough, makes him more "black" than Obama, who is only 1/8th subSaharan African by blood...
the infowarrior
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