Want To Read Liberals Bashing Obama? "The Fairy Tale Revisited"

Talkleft features a long string of comments about Obama. None are particularly supportive.

Example:

Anne

The only thing missing from [Bob] Herbert's column was the tag line: "I'm not Barack Obama, but you can be sure he approved this message."

The only thing that makes me feel any better about Herbert's column is that probably the only people who are still reading him are people who are so in-the-tank that they accept what Herbert writes - then and now - as actual fact. I made an exception today to see more than just the snip BTD provided, and even then, I could not get all the way through it it was so vile.

I'm no McCain fan, trust me. I listened to part of the Q & A's from an appearance he made yesterday, and it was awful, just awful; I am no more interested in a President McCain than I am in a President Obama.

But McCain's ad wasn't racist. And just because the audiences Obama is delivering his they're-going-to-demonize-me speeches appreciated his "warning," doesn't mean Obama's motives and meaning were the purest-of-the-pure; his remarks were clearly designed to (1) float an accusation of something that had not happened as if it already had, (2) eliminate the discussion of race by appointing himself judge and jury on the whole issue and (3) effectively tell people the only way to make up for the consider-them-real-injustices-because-they-are-inevitable, visited upon Obama is to (4) vote for him.

Post-racial my patootie; if anything, this campaign (Obama's) is moving us farther away from a true post-racial environment than we have been in decades, and people like Herbert are willing and active participants.

[responding to Anne]

Anne:


His remarks were clearly designed to (1) float an accusation of something that had not happened as if it already had, (2) eliminate the discussion of race by appointing himself judge and jury on the whole issue and (3) effectively tell people the only way to make up for the consider-them-real-injustices-because-they-are-inevitable, visited upon Obama is to (4) vote for him.


So what's not to like?
Clearly, "smart" politics.

[Anne replies]

Not so smart if people are calling BS on it, though. "Smart" is when it doesn't turn around and bite you in the butt. "Smart" is when you get away with it.
No, this was not smart, it was all kinds of stupid.

Finding smart people on the other side of the fence is refreshing.