Smasharoo wrote:
No. It's about going "told you so" over and over as Obama does exactly what conservative pundits have been accusing him of doing for years now.
For instance....?
It's legitimately difficult to objectively think of anything conservative pundits have been right about in the last 4 years. Not joking. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but MAN have those guys been just rock dead fucking wrong about everything lately.
Really? You don't remember all the things Obama said years ago which conservatives said he was just saying to gain political support and he'd do the opposite at some point once in office? I've already listed off the obvious low hanging fruit (gitmo, nsa wiretapping, wot, drone strikes, etc), but we can add "not raising taxes one dime", and then pushing to raise taxes, not just on the rich, but on everyone. How about "not in favor of gay marriage", and then refusing to defend DOMA and then conveniently having his position "evolve" into exactly what conservatives said his position really was. Oh, and "not in favor of gun control", also met with a "yeah, sure" by the right. Woah! Who could have guess that now he's pushing for gun control. No government funding for contraceptives and/or abortion? Going to "reach across the aisle"?
There are a huge list of things that Obama claimed when running and in the early portion of his presidency which were designed to either appeal to his base or to appeal to the middle, many of which the right scoffed at when he said it and predicted that these weren't really his positions, but just what he was saying to get support. And it's shocking just how accurate the conservatives were about which things he'd switch his position on. And I suppose we were also accurate in predicting just how little media attention would be paid to these things as well. And also how willing the left would be to ignore the promises he broke to them. I mean, never ending screaming about gitmo for 5 years straight, then Obama takes office and silence? Warrantless wiretaps talked about over and over, then nothing? It's amazing how willing the left is to just look the other way. Makes one think that they're ok with their leaders lying to them, as long as it's "their leaders" in power anyway.
Hence my comment about the difference between the left and right on this. Folks on the Right can see right through that level of BS. We're actually remarkably good at seeing it and decrying it. The Left? Not so much.