From Michael Barone:
…why are Democrats less enthusiastic? And why has “the progressive donor base,” as Democratic consultant Jim Jordans reports, “stopped writing checks”?
I don’t think it’s just because the economy remains sour or that President Obama failed to jam a public option in the health care bill.
I find a more convincing explanation in an offhand phrase in a subordinate clause in a brief article by Adam Serwer of the Center for American Progress on the Washington Post’s opinion pages. “There’s no question,” Serwer writes, defying anyone to disagree, “that Obama has completely reversed on his promises to roll back Bush-era national security policies.”…
And that may very well be it – for 8 years the liberal leadership hammered endlessly upon the Chimp McSmirk BusHitler theme about how we’re choosing war and violating civil liberties in an orgy of Islamophobic insanity…and Obama ran, explicitly, on changing all that. That reality has forced Obama to essentially continue most of Bush’s policies in this area doesn’t matter – they want the “gulag” in Gitmo closed!
This is what comes with using flat out, bald-faced lies to make a political point…if you do have followers dumb enough to believe the lies over a long period of time, they will continue to believe them even when you don’t need them any more. Welcome to your own problem, Democrats – and, next time, maybe try telling the truth?
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