The lefties, like Moore are outraged that Obama is sending troops to Afghanistan:
Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you 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. I simply can’t believe you’re about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn’t so.
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We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can’t take it anymore. We can’t take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of “landslide victory” don’t you understand?
Um…didn’t he realize that Obama was pretty clear during the campaign that he intended to fight the war on terrorism and he viewed Afghanistan as the central front of that war?
“We went to Afghanistan first because it is the central front in the war against terrorism,” Obama said. “That is where the 9/11 attacks were planned and today in Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are mounting a growing offensive against the security of the Afghan people and, increasingly, the Pakistani people, while plotting new attacks against the United States.”
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“The situation in Afghanistan is perilous and urgent,” Obama said. “We must act now to reverse a deteriorating situation. I called, over a year ago, for additional U.S. troops to be placed in Afghanistan, as well as more nonmilitary assistance and more support from our NATO allies, and I am glad that there is a growing consensus back home that we need more resources in Afghanistan.”
Did he hear it and ignore it like this guy:
“The implications of what he was saying I don’t think registered on people…..They didn’t see it.”
“I don’t think there was a consciousness in the electorate that, if we elect Obama, we’re sending 50,000 troops to Afghanistan,” said Kurt Volker of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “It wasn’t hidden, but it wasn’t evident to voters who were focused on other issues.”
The right heard and understood and some even voted for him because of it.
Ultimately, I guess the lefties, like the GOP are going to have to realize that Obama won and he can do what he wants.
posted December 1, 2009 at 10:20 am
Thank God we have a responsible president like Barack Obama who is willing to disappoint the Left Wing in order to do the right thing in Afghanistan. If Moore and others had taken him at his word when he said during the campaign that “Afghanistan is the good war” perhaps they wouldn’t be disappointed now.
I’m no hawk, but I don’t believe “War bad” is an adequate philosophy of peace. This is an incredibly complicated situation, and Obama’s strategy may not work, but I am behind him.
I’m more impressed by him today than I ever was during the campaign, and proud to call him my president.
posted December 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I think it is not this one thing, but a continuous run to the right.
Health care reform is turning into a gift to the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
His financial team is made up of Bush II and Wall Street retreads.
Gay rights? Yeah, right.
Middle East? He might as well join the Likud Party.
Gitmo, Patriot Act, etc? Hasn’t lifted a finger.
The only finger he has lifted is the middle one, to the people who voted for him while he kowtows to the usual suspects of Wall Street and K Street.
posted December 1, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Amen and Kudos to Your Name.
The government doesn’t represent the people anymore. It represents special interest groups. If it were put to a vote the citizens would not be for spending so much money that we don’t have on the military.
posted December 2, 2009 at 1:41 am
your name, you should pay more attention to what obama is actually trying to accomplish. he is working on many of the things that you’re complaining about. he has removed from the patriot act most of the stuff that the left was against. he is also working to close guantanamo, though it probably won’t happen by the deadline that he wanted. he hasn’t gone as far as i want with gay rights, but it’s a huge difference compared to the past administration. while there may be some hint of truth to a few of your gripes, i think you’re overly jaded and buying the propaganda being sold to you by the right wing that he hasn’t done anything for those who voted for him.
posted December 2, 2009 at 7:20 am
Obama is as much a marxist reprobate as Moore is.
Moore is just babbling. Obama knows (as does the idiot Moore), that Muslim terrorists will do harm to the harm that the Marxists have planned for the American people.
What lies ahead when Obama and his Moore minions get voted out of office? The now horrified NON-Leftist independents that thought Obama was a good person are in for even more of a shock when they see what damage Leftists can do in the final months, days and hours of the transition from the Obama nightmare back to an honorable American presidency.
Moore is showing the insanity that is the leftist mind more and more everyday.
posted December 2, 2009 at 10:21 am
Obama has a backbone after all.
posted December 2, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I highly recommend Andrew Sullivan’s piece in today’s Dish:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/the-morning-after.html
Excerpt:
“Our enemy already knows that the US cannot sustain neo-imperial control of a vast inhospitable country on the other side of the planet for more than a decade. And if the US were to do so, it would be becoming the imperial power the neocons and the Islamists truly want. What Obama was saying last night is that he is determined to return America to normal, to unplug this vast attempt at global control in Muslim countries that Bush and Cheney unleashed. He is trying to unwind the empire, not expand it.”
posted December 3, 2009 at 2:09 am
another uneducated rant from the right: “blah blah marxist… yadda yadda leftist… hate hate obama.”