Leave Britney alone
You call him a warmonger, but he gets the Nobel Peace Prize. He ends torture and allows his Attorney General to investigate it, and you call him a torturer. He tries to enact health care reform with a robust public option and you accuse him of seeking every opportunity to sell-out to the insurance industry. He bails out the cratering financial services industry and prevents a second Great Depression, and you accuse him of selling his soul to corporate CEO’s. I’m not saying that all of these criticisms lack validity. I’m not saying that people shouldn’t advocate for the things they care about passionately. I just want to know where you get the fucking idea that an anonymous White House staffer who gets asked about all this criticism would feel obligated to show you deference and respect.
What’s he supposed to say? That all the criticism is right on the mark?
The truth of the matter is, right or wrong, the progressive blogosphere has been a more severe and on point critic of the Obama administration than any teabagger. And, in many ways, that is to the community’s credit. We don’t embrace the cheerleader’s role and that gives us more credibility. When the president screws up, we’re willing to call him on it. But, Jesus Christ, do you expect the administration to lie down and say, ‘Thank you, sir, may I have another’?
If you berate them for not closing Guantanamo fast enough, not ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell fast enough, not evacuating Iraq fast enough, not passing a health care bill fast enough, and so on…do you not expect one their number to at some point push back and point out that making these kind of changes takes time and is a bit difficult?
And, where the hell do you get off taking it personally? Aren’t you the ones accusing them of being whores to the insurance industry and Wall Street and the military-industrial complex? Do you think they are going to find that criticism generous and well-intended?
Criticism is fine. But the sense of entitlement involved here is staggering. Ooh, some big, bad White House adviser defended the administration against one more heated attack. My feelings are hurt. Guess what? You should get over it.
Fucking twit.
46 Responses to “Leave Britney alone”
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Dakinikat says:
Yup, yup, yup … he’s the apologist’s apologist. I wonder if his mascara was running down his cheeks as he penned that load of crap?
October 13th, 2009 at 8:48 pm EST -
myiq2xu says:
He should change his name to Boo-hoo-man
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Violet says:
It’s fucking delusional.
You call him a warmonger, but he gets the Nobel Peace Prize.
Oh, well that settles it then.
He ends torture
He did? When?
He tries to enact health care reform with a robust public option
He did? When?
He bails out the cratering financial services industry
Oh yeah, he bailed out his buddies on Wall Street, that’s for damn sure. His buddies on Wall Street who created the financial mess and are now floating on billions in bonuses while they continue their same old rapacious business practices.
Fucking TWIT.
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janicen says:
You should get over it.
LOL! Where have I heard that before? That seems to be this administration’s theme. We should put that on the dollar bill with a shot of Barry brushing off his shoulder. Why should he have to keep any of his campaign promises? We should all just get over it. That solves everything.
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madamab says:
Let’s just say Booman doesn’t quite understand why we’re upset. You see, our employee, President Obama, is doing a really sh*tty job and has not lived up to the terms of his contract. Mmmmkay?
We, as citizens of this country, do not have to get over a f*cking thing. We have every right to hold our President accountable to his promises.
Obama is the whiny little baby here. Oh, the bloggers are being MEAN to me! WAAAAHHHHHHH!
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RalphB says:
Please allow me to say that “Fucking TWIT” is a letter perfect description.
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Grace says:
This shows that our cheerleader has a very thin and sensitive skin. He gets offended and his feelings get hurt easily, you know, whenever people aren’t praising him constantly, worshipping, fainting, telling him that he is loved, or kissing his precious feet.
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Lori says:
Is Michelle, like, a guest blogger over there? That’s as fucking delusional as it gets.
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yttik says:
Michael Moore wrote a similar article, “Get off Obama’s Back.” What I don’t understand is when did it become possible for us to start oppressing the oppressors? How can little peons victimize the guy at the top of the food chain handing out all this money to wealthy corporations? It’s like up is suddenly down. Those with the power and wealth are now viewed as victims of the schmucks at the bottom.
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caroline says:
I just want to know where you get the fucking idea that an anonymous White House staffer who gets asked about all this criticism would feel obligated to show you deference and respect.
Hm. Deference and Respect. I think the objection had to do with being called “fringe” and told to take off the P.J.’s But maybe we should all be wearing haute couture like Michelle Obama–always the appropriate way to dress for a major recession. I’ve changed into a Prada brocade dress and with Jimmy Choos, and let me tell you, I feel much more normal.
And one more point: Grace, I have to disagree with you on this one:
This shows that our cheerleader has a very thin and sensitive skin. He gets offended and his feelings get hurt easily, you know, whenever people aren’t praising him constantly, worshipping, fainting, telling him that he is loved, or kissing his precious feet.
I don’t think he cares. I think he’s like George Bush–an as*hole.
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lambert strether says:
Damn.
What’s that slurping sound?
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votermom says:
What I don’t understand is when did it become possible for us to start oppressing the oppressors?
It’s a classic abuser tactic. Once the abuse victim starts trying to even the power imbalance, the abuser gets all hurt and offended.
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yttik says:
You know what we’ll never see? Articles like these defending a woman. Oh sure, Britney got some support, but that was comedy gold on you tube.
Seriously, who is destroying congress? Nancy Pelosi. Who is stopping gay rights? Miss California. Who is the most offensive person in the Polanski scandal? Whoopi Goldberg. Who is the biggest threat to the Obama administration? Sarah Palin. Who is responsible for the Iraqi war? Hillary Clinton. (She also invented racism, by the way} Who is the most evil twit in politics today? Michelle Bachmann.
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anna says:
As for “ending torture” I believe (correct me if I heard this wrong) interrogators now have to go by the Army Field Manual, which means no waterboarding, stress positions, etc. However, extraordinary rendition (sending people to face our lovely allies in Egypt etc and get tortured there) is still legal, as is naming people enemy combatants and denying them access to a lawyer and knowledge of the charges against them,and keeping them detained indefinitely, as is spying on American citizens without a warrant.
Is that correct Violet? You follow politics better than I do.
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SYD says:
Booman still has a kool-ade problem. Guess he is slow to catch on to the Obama 12 step??
Barf.
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merciless says:
What votermom said.
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monchichipox says:
I over heard my brother talking to one of his friends who is an Obamapostle and my brother’s retort puts it best. “No matter how much pro Obama shit you spew he’s still never going to let you suck his dick.”
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quixote says:
yttik comment 13. Yup. Interesting how that works, isn’t it.
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Unree says:
Brava, yttik. I disagree with you on what to do with Polanski–I think what his victim wants is for the attacks on her to let up, rather than to see him set free–but you’re saying what very few people will say.
We can play this game at home. Who did the atrocities at Abu Ghraib? Lynndie England. Who are the really disappointing, heartbreaking signers of the Free Polanski petition? Emma Thompson and Natalie Portman. Who’s the craziest, most notorious child molester in the USA? Mary Kay Letourneau.
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votermom says:
monchichipox, you have a pithy brother. LOL.
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
Obamapostle – funny, monchichipox!
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Unree says:
Plus, the racial variant. When an African-American man is in trouble, the black community rallies round: Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson. If he is in trouble because of the accusation made by an African-American woman, his community sides with the man: Mike Tyson, Clarence Thomas. When a black woman, Joycelyn Elders in 1994, unjustly lost her job, the African American community didn’t protest; as I recall, all the noise about that one came from white feminists.
Yes, there are individual exceptions to these ‘community’ generalizations; I am talking about what the majority manifests: Men are valuable and women aren’t. White people say the same thing.
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slythwolf says:
you berate them for not closing Guantanamo fast enough, not ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell fast enough, not evacuating Iraq fast enough, not passing a health care bill fast enough, and so on…
LOL! Because “not doing it fast enough” and “not doing it at all” are totes the same thing.
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monchichipox says:
It isn’t a matter of cowardice. It’s practicality. I don’t think he’s afraid to die. I think he’s afraid to die THIS EARLY before he has accomplished all he could.
LOL the above was someone saying that he might get assassinated like Kennedy if he moves to fast. I read some of the comments on that blog. Is that what the Daily Kos is like? They’re all like Walter Middy living vicariously through Obama.
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Violet says:
How did death enter the conversation? Monchichipox, you bewilder me. I AM BEWILDERED.
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Ciccina says:
Just looked at the Booman site’s comment thread – like a bunch of escapees. That’s where you’ll find the stuff about O = JFK, a military junta is running the country, etc.
Who is that chump, anyway? Never heard of him.
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yttik says:
“I AM BEWILDERED.”
There are some liberal dude talking points floating around on the intertubes that claim we should excuse the lack of accomplishments because to actually do anything productive would simply be too dangerous.
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Violet says:
monchichipix said:
I don’t think he’s afraid to die. I think he’s afraid to die THIS EARLY before he has accomplished all he could.
Who dying? Obama? Why did monchichipix start talking about Obama dying? What the fuck?
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Violet says:
By the way, people, “LOL” is not allowed on this blog.
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Violet says:
Was monchichipix trying to quote somebody else without actually, you know, using quotation marks or italics or blockquotes?
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madamab says:
Sorry Violet – feel free to edit it out.
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monchichipox says:
Yes all apologies. I was reading quotes off the blog post of the nitwit you put up. That quote was one of Obama’s supporters sayting the reason Obama wasn’t going to fast was because it was too dangerous for Obama. Dangerous in not that Obama would die but he would die before doing all God wants him to do. Sorry for the LOL to.
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votermom says:
By the way, people, “LOL” is not allowed on this blog.
Meanie.
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Violet says:
That’s okay. The No LOL Rule has always been in force, but I’m not sure the force has ever officially announced itself outside my head. So you probably didn’t know.
monchichipox, thank god that’s sorted. I was BEWILDERED. But now I want to go read the thread with the crazy people.
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Carmonn says:
Oh, the idea that Obama can’t possibly accomplish anything because he’s in mortal peril everywhere except in Cheney’s bunker is one of the longest standing tropes in the liberal blogospehere.
I think I first saw it at corrente during the primary, when someone posted that white women needed to stop complaining about the “sweetie” comment as he was travelling through the Deep South and they were going to be responsible for him being lynched. But it probably long predated that, and it’s been popular ever since.
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LabRat says:
The question it begs for me is that if Obama can’t accomplish anything without being instantly lynched, if Fox news is saying mean things about him that week, if a Republican interrupts him, or a liberal doubts him (maybe it’s like fairies dying if not enough people believe)…
What, then, did they think putting this piece of sparkly spun glass in the White House would achieve?
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lambert strether says:
Carmonn — “Someone”.. Got a link?
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Carmonn says:
“Ain’t that a Bitch: The Return of Racist Misandry or ‘The Angry Black Man’”
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Sis says:
A majority of the Nobel Peace committee voted against him, until ‘convinced’ by the committee head. This was leaked, against Nobel practise to keep deliberations secret for 50 years.
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FembotsForObama says:
delurking to say — His comments are truly bizarre. And didn’t we hear all that “get off his back” constantly during the Shrub’s time in office… that we needed to leave him alone because he was doing all he could do to save Democracy for the world, and that it was hard work and he deserved all those vacations. Maybe next the Obamapologists will be saying that Obama needs to take all those trips to be a moving target and keep his would-be assassins confused; that’s why Michelle Antoinette must fly in her own separate plane too.
BTW, anyone heard what Nader said the other day?
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CAE says:
Booman sounds like an Obama version of a loyal Bushie.
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madaha says:
How petulant, condescending, and snotty is this?!!??
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....id=8843741
critics aren’t offering solutions? How about single-payer now, buttwipe?? That’s what we’ve BEEN saying!
What an a-hole!!!
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madaha says:
oh, he also says that he “forgives us” for voting for him, and “getting him into this mess”.
F*CK YOU!!! Can you believe that? The AUDACITY ™!!
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madaha says:
Is this him in “charming”, “cutesy” mode? Um, it ain’t working.
sorry about the multiple posts…I’m kinda steamed.
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monchichipox says:
Not mopping fast enough? He really does have issues with women doesn’t he?
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Violet says:
critics aren’t offering solutions? How about single-payer now, buttwipe?? That’s what we’ve BEEN saying!
Obama doesn’t deign to address his critics on the left. He delegates that to anonymous White House advisors, or Rahm in off-the-record mode. And the message is invariably to shut up and be grateful for whatever crumbs we get.
In public, Obama positions himself as the great champion who’s working hard to push healthcare reform against the rightwing naysayers. In essence, he’s defining himself as the Overton window. Nothing to the left of him can be acknowledged to exist, except as an absurdity.
This is why casual observers (which is most Americans) think Obama is actually some kind of liberal who’s really trying to accomplish progressive policies. Which he’s not, of course. He’s just another front man for the corporatocracy.
