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In reply to the discussion: The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer [View all]1000words
(7,051 posts)58. I wasn't referring to the left
The point is Clinton was under attack in a very similar way President Obama is today. The left was most certainly criticizing Clinton at the time, only it wasn't framed as being the root of the President's problems, like Schaeffer is ridiculously implying here.
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The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer [View all]
kpete
Dec 2013
OP
Are you saying people who vote communist criticized him? Because that is the extreme left not
merrily
Dec 2013
#123
A year ago I started going to a coffee shop in the morning and for sometime
Vietnameravet
Dec 2013
#4
I'm sure you were sympathetic, but the complaints about his relationships were one sided, no doubt.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#112
"... the blue dogs wouldn't budge--they were in fear of their red districts back home ...
Scuba
Dec 2013
#57
"Wonder how those blue dogs would have fared had they embraced some true progressive issues..."
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#118
Halter was well to the left of Lincoln, had labor support, yet he lost in the Dem primary.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#142
Sounds progressive, but only a tiny bit so. Certainly nothing to excite the disaffected.
Scuba
Dec 2013
#143
The GOP will win if we insist on your criteria--Elizabeth Warren doesn't even meet them
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#144
They aren't my criteria. They're all very popular positions across the electorate.
Scuba
Dec 2013
#146
I agree. Also the blue dogs forced him to accept a stimulus package which was
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2013
#72
Obama Failures Front And Center - Coddles Banks - Panders To Wall Street - Supports Drones - Blesses NSA - Driving TPP
cantbeserious
Dec 2013
#15
I don't view Obama as a victim, he's the President and it comes with the job, furthermore
Uncle Joe
Dec 2013
#16
I'm a Democrat and a leftist. I don't. And, as you can see on DU there are a lot of us.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2013
#39
I'm convinced it's all based on racism. They hate whites who aren't racists.
Zen Democrat
Dec 2013
#30
What they ARE is classic "Control Freaks" lashing out because their authority is under assault.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#34
Calling Obama's experience a "lynching" is disrespectful to the memory of victims of real lynchings.
Nye Bevan
Dec 2013
#35
What do you think was behind the uproar over his selfie with the blonde Danish PM?
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#50
You ignore the tone of the attacks, not to mention the exponential increase in death threats.
SunSeeker
Dec 2013
#119
A hated airhead compares debt to slavery, and a favored journalist compares criticism to lynching...
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2013
#86
Yep: How dare he return to his home state? It's so, you know, full of intermarried brown people.
Hekate
Dec 2013
#116
Yes it's hyperbole, but it wouldn't be the first time someone used hyperbole to make a point
politicaljunkie41910
Dec 2013
#77
I recall the "left" trying to warn that the Republicans would try to block everything...
JHB
Dec 2013
#82
But come election time, you better get your leftist ass out there and vote!
BrotherIvan
Dec 2013
#88
the disgusting southern right wing rubes from the former slave states that have tried to belittle...
AlbertCat
Dec 2013
#103
You lost me at lynching. It's absolutely no different than McCain playing the Hitler card.
WowSeriously
Dec 2013
#111
That makes for such painful reading. The Sunday morning gasbags were at it again...
Hekate
Dec 2013
#114
The GOP has ZERO solutions, so they have to resort to this sh!t slinging. In reality, the righties
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2013
#129