Politico.com says the left is starting to sour on Obama, reporting that “A few, like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, have even hurled the left’s ultimate epithet – suggesting that Obama’s turning into George W. Bush.”
A growing number of organizations, bloggers and pundits, many of whom kept quiet about slights in Obama’s first few months, are now going public with their disillusionment.
“On torture, change we wanted to believe in feels like more of the same,” the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch said in a joint statement Friday.
“I have a sickeningly familiar feeling in my stomach, and the feeling deepens with every interaction with the Obama team on [gay] issues. They want them to go away. They want us to go away,” the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan wrote last week, dismissing Obama’s pledge to end the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy as “toilet paper.”
Apparently one of the candidates under consideration for the SCOTUS nomination is Jim Corney, a deputy AG in the Bush administration Justice Department. Obama aides say he would be “a viable choice because he stood up to the White House over wiretapping and criticized what he saw as efforts to politicize the Justice Department.”
Hey ... maybe if he stood up to Bush over wiretapping, he might stand up to Obama over wiretapping too. Sounds like a win to me.
The article makes interesting reading though. Frankly, it sounds like for an increasing number of the left, the honeymoon is over, and the new Emperor’s new clothes are starting to look a little shabby and thin.
Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition said many Obama supporters (with support from voices on the right) built him up to be more of a liberal icon than his public speeches and writings ever justified.
“They invested in Obama everything they wanted the next president to be. They thought, ‘He’s black, liberal, anti-Iraq War… urban, young.’ He was all of that and smart and he went to a radical church. They just knew,” Meyers said. “They exaggerated him. They saw him as a messiah. No president is a messiah.”
Got that? “No president is a messiah.” And any Presidential hopeful who tells you he is a Messiah (or hints at it) is a liar. A mandate from God is not a qualification for the Presidency. The oath of office doesn’t say anything about being a messiah. It’s all about upholding and defending the Constitution and faithfully executing the duties and responsibilities of the President.