Will Progressives Respond To The Attempt to Overthrow The President?

As Obama's Support Erodes, the Right is Resurgent

Will Progressives Respond To The Attempt to Overthrow The President?

by Danny Schechter

The tide of public opinion may be turning against the President. Pollsters report growing skepticism about health care reform, and more active hostility on racial matters, thanks to that "uncalibrated" expression of opinion on the arrest of Professor Gates in his own home. That remark turned him, in the eyes of some, from a small b black President into a militant Black Panther, or at least someone who can bashed as such.

These are the new controversial issues with no one right answer, and a noisy debate everywhere, but something else is also going on.

With Democrats fussing among themselves, with Obamacrats forced to rely on corporate media, the right-wing TV and radio stations close ranks behind the most self-righteously-correct ranters having a filed day poking , prodding, pummeling, and peeing into cups of their own resentment, hate and venom.

There is no smear that is beneath them, no inference or insult out of bounds. Lou Dobbs blesses the birthers while that Elmer Gantry of demagoguery, Glenn Beck, meditates on his mountain and pronounces Obama a racist. An Israeli settler refers to our President as "that Arab," and worse.

These are the nattering nabobs of negativity of our times, to resurrect an old canard once aimed at the left. The Yes We Can advocates seem to be taking refuge in the No We Won't center. The next thing you know, the removal of a democratically elected President that worked in Honduras might be attempted here at home.

Some of us are still singing "We Shall Overcome" when our adversaries are chanting "We Shall Overthrow."

If Barack's legitimacy as a citizen won't bring him down, his actions---moderate if not reactionary as they are--- unites the crazies against him and drives them even more beserk. The contentious Congressman who vowed to "break him," should be taken seriously

This relentless riposte is having an effect on a demoralized and economically challenged population that is not well informed in the first place-except perhaps about Michael Jackson's dubious doctor who may have done the dirty deed. Sensing possible victory-whatever that means--- the Angeroid microfactions that lost the election are now seeking to polarize the public to topple the Administration with an electronic coup d'media. It is all that serious.

Only Jon Stewart seems to be calling them on their game, while at the same time despairing about the obvious missteps and mistakes that the White House is making. They may be a garden outside the Oval Office but there is a minefield inside it.

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You say that "only" Jon Stewart is calling the crazies out--why not write an article calling them out YOURSELF? You point out that the coporate media isn't supporting Obama--why don't you point out that the reason WHY is because public health care reform will cut into their for-profit health industry ad revenues? You say the right has closed ranks--why not list which politicians are being financially supported by the for-profit health care so we'll know who the welfare queens REALLY are?

Obama's overall approval rating is holding steady, and it goes rises when people are made aware of the details of his health care plan. Meanwhile, this writer is being part the problem when he can be part of the solution.

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rocktivity

...shakes head in sadness at the cluelessness of rocktivity...

Who cares about the "adversaries"? If that's their tactics to use smear and lies, they expose themselves. Yes, there is a certain percentage of the population that believes that crap, but so what? They always have and always will, and Hunter S. Thompsons "Idiot Factor" theory is true. The reason they act like that and run swift boat type bullshit is because they know that there are some out there, so narrow minded they can look through a key hole with both eyes, that if you told them they left town an hour ago, they'd believe you! They do research with great seriousness to find out how many people are dumb enough to believe shit like birthing, killing old people, and socialism, and that is done by simple polling. A full 53% of Americans polled in the south actually firmly believe their own president is a foreigner! How fucking utterly incomprehensively, unbelievably stupid can people of the human race be? So it's not Obabmas fault, these people have always been polarizing in their thoughts and actions, BUT they have the help of corporate right wing America on their side with dollars to fund this crap, and they'll go to any lengths to stoop as low as they can to fill these idiots minds with crap. Do you think that a bunch of yucks from Alabama or Mississippi could organize such a campaign on their own? Hell, they couldn't organize a thought if their life depended on it! And besides, they're too damn poor and worrying about putting food on the table and making the Trailer payment. If the billions of dollars wasn't there to spend on attacking the left, or the right, we just might have common sense prevail, and wouldn't life be boring without the lies and innuendos that the media on both loves to yap about to compete in the ratings! We'd have guys like Walter Cronkite sitting there telling the news in a plain, unbiased, unfiltered way and be able to make up our own minds. Obamas support isn't eroding... he still has the support of the majority, at more than his numbers in the polls were, and the same numbers as who voted for him, so basically, he's just back to where he really is.