Time Writer Angrily Lectures Leftist ‘Netroots’ Who Won’t Support Obama

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Time writer Michael Grunwald unloaded on leftists on the Swampland blog on Tuesday — for not being supportive enough of Barack Obama. The post was titled: “Earth to the Left: Obama Is Into You.” Grunwald was furious that the “disillusionment addicts of the left” would suggest abandoning the Democrat ship. He began with gays-in-the-military activist Dan Choi, who was handed an Obama flyer and “Choi dramatically ripped up the flyer and declared that he wouldn't support Obama.” And why should he? What has Obama ever done to help gays serve openly in the military? Other than repeal don't-ask-don't-tell, so that gays can serve openly in the military? Ah, “the professional left,” never happy unless it's unhappy. When White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer tried to explain during a later panel that Obama is the most progressive president ever on gay rights, the Daily Kos blogger who was moderating cut him off: “That's a pretty low bar.” With friends like these, who needs Republicans? If the primary theme of the Obama era is the insanity of the right –attacking government-run health care and Medicare cuts simultaneously, demanding deficit reduction through deficit-busting tax cuts, denying climate science — the secondary theme is the ingratitude of the left. And the latter infuriates the White House far more than the former, the way a rebellious teenage son causes far more angst than a crazy old neighbor. It's true that President Obama is not as liberal as some Daily Kos bloggers would like him to be. (Although he has blogged at Daily Kos.)

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