If you were to ask Glenn Greenwald or David Sirota about President Obama, they’ll tell you he’s a blood-thirsty, warmongering murderer of women and children. Indeed, the far-left believes the president is an Muslim-hating drone-aholic whose “secret kill list,” his order to “extrajudicially” kill U.S.-born al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki along with Al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, and his braggadocio about becoming “good” at killing people makes him a war criminal punishable by, at least, impeachment, arrest and imprisonment.
Add to the mix his so-called unconstitutional, illegal participation in the Libyan conflict along with his saber rattling over Syria, and Obama is clearly a fanged, cloven-hoofed demon who indiscriminately launches Hellfire missiles at anyone who he decides he doesn’t like.
On the other hand, if you were to ask the far-right, President Obama is an effete, dainty arugula-eater whose spindly physical form, deliberative academic nature and his floatilla of Hollywood fanboys make him a capitulating, pacifistic, weak player on the international stage. Such pusillanimous behavior encourages terrorists and despots to thumb their noses at the United States and to whimsically kill, invade and commit genocide whenever they damn well please.
Of course neither caricature is accurate. In reality, the president is probably somewhere in between –generally where all presidents ought to be. But that doesn’t hinder the efforts by extremists on both ends of the political spectrum to lay blame at the president’s feet for everything that’s awful in the world.
To wit, on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the following:
“Well, number one, stop going on television and trying to threaten thugs and dictators. It is not your strong suit. Every time the president goes on national television and threatens Putin or anyone like Putin, everybody’s eyes roll, including mine. We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression. President Obama needs to do something.”
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