Quantum Windbag
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For all the people who reflexively defend Obama regardless of what he says or does, take a look at the consequences as seen by a person on the left.
http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2011/05/16/syndicated-column-rise-of-the-obamabots
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.
http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2011/05/16/syndicated-column-rise-of-the-obamabots