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Obama can be ‘apathetic’ or a ‘dictator,’ but he can’t be both
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/obama-can-be-apathetic-or-dictator-he-cant-be-bothEven after six years, President Obama’s loudest critics can’t quite decide what it is about him they don’t like. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem were it not for the fact that so many of their condemnations contradict each other.
The list is likely familiar to regular readers. He’s a ruthless Chicago thug and a “wuss.” He’s sticking to the Bush/Cheney script on national security and he’s putting us at risk by abandoning the Bush/Cheney national security agenda. He’s cutting cherished entitlement programs like Medicare and he refuses to cut entitlement programs like Medicare. He’s waging a class war against the rich and he’s coddling millionaires.
But the one contradiction Republicans – and much of the Beltway media – find most exciting is the notion that Obama is a bystander, who sits around and watches events pass him by, and a tyrannical activist, who acts unilaterally and tries to seize control of all federal power.
All of which brings us to this amazing report from Ben Terris on Joni Ernst’s (R) right-wing U.S. Senate candidacy in Iowa. It was Ernst who famously referred to President Obama as an overzealous “dictator” who is constantly “overstepping his bounds.” And now it’s Ernst who’s convinced Obama is “an apathetic president,” reluctant to do any work at all.
The list is likely familiar to regular readers. He’s a ruthless Chicago thug and a “wuss.” He’s sticking to the Bush/Cheney script on national security and he’s putting us at risk by abandoning the Bush/Cheney national security agenda. He’s cutting cherished entitlement programs like Medicare and he refuses to cut entitlement programs like Medicare. He’s waging a class war against the rich and he’s coddling millionaires.
But the one contradiction Republicans – and much of the Beltway media – find most exciting is the notion that Obama is a bystander, who sits around and watches events pass him by, and a tyrannical activist, who acts unilaterally and tries to seize control of all federal power.
All of which brings us to this amazing report from Ben Terris on Joni Ernst’s (R) right-wing U.S. Senate candidacy in Iowa. It was Ernst who famously referred to President Obama as an overzealous “dictator” who is constantly “overstepping his bounds.” And now it’s Ernst who’s convinced Obama is “an apathetic president,” reluctant to do any work at all.
How does this pathetic creature stand any chance of winning? It's not like Iowa is that far right. 
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