Posted on 12/06/2009 4:49:02 PM PST by lbryce
Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their spiritual leader is a false prophet
Consider the blow suffered by the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, who issued a plaintive plea to the president on the eve of his announcement that he was sending 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. By escalating the war, Moore wrote:
"[Y]ou will do the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike."
Obama, of course, was not moved by his follower from Flint. The real question is why Moore, and those millions and multitudes of whom he wrote, thought that Obama would do otherwise. Obama never said during the campaign that he would pull out of Afghanistan; in fact, he had promised to escalate. "As president, I will make the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban the top priority that it should be," he said in July 2008, vowing to send at least two more combat brigades to Afghanistan. "This is a war that we have to win."
Yet Moore is surely right about the disillusionment of Obama's supporters. Even before the surge announcement, support among liberals for Obama's Afghanistan policy had dropped 22 points since July, to 59 percent from 81 percent, according to a Post-ABC News poll. Overall liberal support for Obama had drifted down to 80 percent from 94 percent in the spring -- and, given the noisy complaints from the left last week, that number seems likely to fall further.
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Indeed. History does have a way of filtering out the hate and bringing out the truth.
Bush WAS right.
(And I agree. Obama's making Michael Moore mad is just delightful. :)
Some people will just never accept a black man in the White House. The racists.
I hate to disagree with that great mental giant Michael Moron, but I think a multitude of the Obozo's mindless yute syncophants had already turned into disillusioned cynics when they realized the Obozo plans to stick them with paying trillions in US debt. If that doesn't make them cynics, a few more years in Afghanistan won't.
the democrats seem to forget that obama upgraded the troop number early in the year by 6k or so
Michael Moore is a big, fat hypocrite!. If he really had the courage of his “so-called” convictions, he would become an expatriot and go live in a Communist country somewhere. North Korea, maybe? I think instead, the secret capitalist part of him is doing too well and his bank account is too well padded to ever really leave. Our loss!!!
if I had a glass eye...there’d be a tear in it
Be realistic. 40% of voters will never abandon Hussein. Palin Derangement Syndrome will take care of that.
At the time it occurred, a lib I know had a 21 year old daughter and I asked him if he’d jettison Clinton if it had been her in Monica’s place. Flat out said no.
and there u have the future Conservatives!....They just don't realize it yet!.....They're just disillusioned now.....lol
They will find their way back to the reservation by election time.
Michael Moore supported Wesley Clark in the 2004 DNC primaries. In Moore’s Bowling For Columbine he tears into the Clinton’s for the bombing raid in Kosovo, and blames some of that violence on the Columbine tragedy.
Hmm...now why would Moore support the guy who was the general in charge of that operation? Hypocrite in deed.
Somehow I suspect a bunch more disillusionment is occurring among the liberal youth because the Obamunist youth corp can’t find jobs after obtaining their four year BA degrees from Progressive State U. and are having to move back in with Mummy and Daddy for a few more years.
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