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It was tempting, when Obamas Democrats swept into office in 2008, to think that the bad old days were coming to an end. I wasnt looking for any favors, just a swing of the political pendulum back to the Clinton years when it was still OK to be a liberal.
This, you have no doubt correctly guessed, is the part where I tell you I was wrong.
I didnt count on the cult of personality around Barack Obama.
In the 1990s it was OK to attack Clinton from the left. I went after the Man From Hope and his centrist, triangulation-obsessed Democratic Leadership Council for selling out progressive principles. Along with like-minded political cartoonists including Tom Tomorrow and Lloyd Dangle, my cartoons and columns took Clintons militant moderates to the woodshed for NAFTA, the WTO and welfare reform. A pal who worked in the White House informed me that the President, known for his short temper, stormed into his office and slammed a copy of that mornings Washington Post down on the desk with my cartoon showing. How dare your friend compare me to Bush? he shouted. (The first Bush.)
It was better than winning a Pulitzer.
It feels a little weird to write this, like Im telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But its true: theres less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush.
I didnt realize how besotted progressives were by Mr. Hopey Changey.
He is a dick. And he whines to Marcos because he won't allow him on Daily Kos.Ted Rall is a dick, who is a dick on purpose.
I said so when he was ripping Chimpola and I say so now.
Ironic, given that Marcos is a dick of monumental proportions.He is a dick. And he whines to Marcos because he won't allow him on Daily Kos.Ted Rall is a dick, who is a dick on purpose.
I said so when he was ripping Chimpola and I say so now.
So, Rall has his panties in a bunch because Obama isn't far left enough.
Obama lost me before Inauguration Day, when he announced cabinet appointments that didn’t include a single liberal.
The Obama Administration doesn’t need journalists or pundits to carry its water. That’s what press secretaries and PR flacks are for.
Yet they continue to stand by him. Which means that, in effect, they are not liberals at all. They are militant Democrats. They are Obamabots.
OBAMA is NOT a leftist.
Not remotely leftist.
Demanding that the LEFT defend OBAMA is the silly debating technique of imbeciles on the right.
As they uslaly don't really have a clue what being left or right really means, they're sincerely wrong, but still, they're wrong.
They're sincerely wrong because, I suspect, most of them get everything they know about political science from talking heads who clearly either don't know what they are talking about, or those talking heads are as stupid as the things they say about polisci.
So, Rall has his panties in a bunch because Obama isn't far left enough.
Give this man a cigar.
He gets it.
You guys are channelling Ted Rall?
Oh my.
So, Rall has his panties in a bunch because Obama isn't far left enough.
Give this man a cigar.
He gets it.
See my response to Sallow. Try to comprehend it.OBAMA is NOT a leftist.
Not remotely leftist.
And yet, oddly, the left does indeed defend Obama. No demands required.Demanding that the LEFT defend OBAMA is the silly debating technique of imbeciles on the right.
Not really. But thanks for the obligatory dose of "If you disagree with me, you're STUpid!"As they uslaly don't really have a clue what being left or right really means, they're sincerely wrong, but still, they're wrong.
Your suspicions are quite wrong.They're sincerely wrong because, I suspect, most of them get everything they know about political science from talking heads who clearly either don't know what they are talking about, or those talking heads are as stupid as the things they say about polisci.
He's just pissed because Obama hasn't declared himself Dear Leader for life.Did the anti military Ted Rall have a brain or personality transplant in the last thirty nine months?
He'd better be praying to Gaea for minorities in high Administration positions.One one "positive" note, Rall will be back in fashion after Obama loses.
