Liberal: Obama Makes Bill Clinton Look Like A Paragon And Virtue
Ted Rall has some buyer’s remorse:
MIAMI — We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
From health care to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn’t have the nerve to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now — before he drags us further into the abyss.
While I couldn’t disagree more with Mr. Rall’s politics, he’s absolutely right when he calls Obama out on broken campaign promises and an utter paucity of “hope and change.”
I expect that Rall, long a darling among liberal circles for his rude invective and crudely-drawn editorial cartoons aimed at President Bush, will be thrown under the bus by the Obama faithful any moment now. Because unfortunately, as wrong-headed as Rall might be, he’s more honest to his principles than most liberals are.
