Thursday, May 21, 2009

Obama screws the Wilsons

From RAW Story:
The Obama administration has decided to oppose the reinstatement of a civil lawsuit filed by outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson.
Obama’s Justice Department says the Wilsons have no legitimate claim to sue. They also put forward another startling claim.

“The Obama administration has gone one step further, suggesting Mr. Wilson failed to provide any evidence that Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove or Mr. Libby harmed him,” Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility reported on their blog Wednesday. “This is particularly ironic because the government had moved to have the case dismissed before the Wilsons had the opportunity to uncover the details of how Ms. Wilson’s covert identity was revealed.
This is vengeance, pure and simple. Joe Wilson supported Hillary and now he must pay.

A year ago, after Joe Wilson committed the sin of suggesting that the Lightbringer might not be the best candidate, the progs went after him the way fast-moving zombies go after fresh meat. In post after post, left-wingers blasted the same people thye had once championed. Do you recall this Kossack Klassick?
the reason he [Larry Johnson] and Joe Wilson have been such BIG supporters of Clinton and have said such horrendous things about Obama is because...Obama will NOT let the criminality of government remain the status quo.....Clinton would of covered up for Bush and the CIA etc like her husband did, Obama will NOT and Larry and his buddies and Joe and Valeries budddies may just be caught for whatever criminal acts they were part of.....
What criminal acts?

The Kossacks posited that Joe Wilson fell into sin after being offered some sort of Clintonian pay-off. ("Joe was promised Sec of State or something"). In fact, the former ambassador's policy disagreement with Obama was substantive. Here's good old Mr. Wilson in March, 2008, scoring Obama for his Iran stance:
On Iran and the question of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, the junior senator from Illinois was not quite so clever at avoiding taking a position. He first co-sponsored the “Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007,” which contained explicit language identifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. He subsequently claimed to oppose the Kyl-Lieberman sense of the Senate resolution proposing the same thing. Obama’s accountability problem here is that he didn’t show up for the vote on that resolution — a vote that would have put him on record. Then he declined to sign on to a letter put forward by Senator Clinton making explicit that the resolution could not be used as authority to take military action. All we have is Obama’s rhetoric juxtaposed with his co-sponsorship of a piece of legislation that proposed what he says he opposed.
Clearly, Wilson had caught on to the Obama act: Bushian actions veiled by progressive words.

I'm curious. Where was Randi Rhodes in all this? And where is she now? She had spent months -- years -- talking about the injustice done to Valerie Plame/Wilson. But (to the best of my knowledge) she said not one word to decry the Obots' hate campaign directed against the Wilsons.

Randi's a big fucking hypocritical whore.

Interestingly enough, Moulitsas has recently allowed this post to infect his site in the wake of the Wilson decision:
OBAMA NOW OFFICIALLY SUCKS
Yeah, well, you helped to create the monster, Obot. You suck.

And you Obots will continue to suck until you admit that you were wrong.

You must confess that you were weak-minded sheep who fell for a marketing campaign. You must admit that you became enthralled by a Messianic cult of personality. You must admit that Obots really do exemplify Dear Leaderism at its worst. (Well, second worst: Nothing can sink lower than the Dubya cult.)

And you must apologize.

(You know, this is the first time in months that I've written a post while typing angry.)

14 comments:

DeniseVB said...

It's a shame this is politics as usual, where's the change we were hoping for? We need a bigger bus!

donna darko said...

Or as Taggles put it:

Wake UP Obots, Obama does not have some secret liberal plan. He is not playing masterful chess and he is not three moves ahead of the Republicans, about to ensnare them in some trap that exists only in your mind. He is using your political naivete (I’m being nice, I really mean political stupidity) to trudge on with his march to the right. Just face up to the fact that you have been had. It’s really not that hard. Just admit it. He snookered you. He bamboozled you. His words are read from a teleprompter and don’t come from the heart. He is not a “Democrat”. It’s one thing to get scammed, but to continue on with the charade only makes you complicit. There is no plausible deniability. Your President is a FRAUD and you voted for him believing in the Axelrod marketing campaign. Now it’s time to get your head out of your ass and force him to do what he said he would do. He’s a political calculator, who won’t do the right thing. He will only do the least politically risky thing. Even if that means hopping into bed with Right Wing Republicans. Stop enabling him. Damn FOOLS.

Anonymous said...

I agree with the confess and apologize part but I think each Obot deserves to be kicked in the junk at least once.

(and I don't mean metaphorically)

Anonymous said...

Joseph there's a school of thought that says Val Plame was outed not to get Joe Wilson but to take down her WMD division of the CIA by outing her cover organization Brewster Jennings.

One version of the story involved a gun battle in Iraq near the Turkish border between CIA assets trying to stop unknown figures from smuggling WMD into Iraq, possibly with the purpose of implicating Saddam.

Snowflake said...

I don't want them to stop supporting Obama. I want everyone to remember who supported the one.

Think about it.

:)

Anonymous said...

I still don't understand how Obama is different from Clinton the good friend of Papa Bush.

Do you really think that apart from small details like the Valerie Plame affair, that Hillary Clinton would have been that different from Obama ?
What is she doing in Obama's administration then ??

It's ok, we get it, you're all Obama haters and you think you're superior to the Clinton haters. Great narcissistic logic: when you do it, it's ok !

Joseph Cannon said...

I get this cliched, barely-literate nonsense all the time. Usually, I don't let these anonymous comments through. But I thought I'd let my readers have a look at what Obot logic has been reduced to.

Anonymous said...

No offense, Joe, but NOBODY remembers that "kossack classic" because it's a reader comment buried in the middle of a non-featured diary thread about the "whitey tape" smear.

Kind of a stretch to imply that was a major meme at DKOS, considering how deep you had to dig to find an example.

StrangeAppar8us

Caro said...

Now that Randi's back on the air,
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7094

maybe she'll tell us what she thinks of her behavior during the primary and whether she regrets any of it.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Caro said...

>>Do you really think that apart from small details like the Valerie Plame affair, that Hillary Clinton would have been that different from Obama ?

Obama's betrayals are all Hillary's fault. It's obvious.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

Joseph Cannon said...

Strange, at the time I did NOT have to dig deep. I popped on over to Kos that day and BOOM, there it was.

I could have given dozens of examples of outrageous things said about the Wilsons by the progsters. On other occasions, I have indeed given dozens of examples, just to preserve for the record a sense of the mania overtaking blogostan left.

Some people castigated me for piling it on like that. But if I don't pile it on, then the embarrassed progsters can later claim that "some" people went overboard, as though the problem were confined to only a very few.

That is precisely the tactic that you are trying to pull right now.

DancingOpossum said...

Yeah, all those former writers at the Giant Cheeto (Obama skeptics all) had to leave because the site welcomed and embraced Obama-critical opinions. Yeah, right.

No matter. The blogs they started are ten times more interesting.

Dakinikat said...

The people that voted for this sham can NEVER apologize enough to me for foisting him on us. It's just going to be one thing after another. Card after card will tumble from this house of cards. He's the democratic version of dumbya. He goes out and gives speeches while his policies just continue the status quo.

Zee said...

don't worry, dakinkat, you can see here the extent of the whiners' "apologies." As carolyn notes...they can only boil it down to "it's all *hillary's* fault!" heh.

fantastic post, joseph, thanks!

omg, tho...I am in the heart of Brand Zero Zealotry. They have ZERO idea, all right..they think everything's been solved and they've tuned out again. Busy twittering and obsessing over American Idol while still sporting Brand Zero logos.

Days like these I turn to Dot Parker and her "a girl's best friend is her mutter."