Reply #109: He's a centrist demagogue posing as a progressive messiah. Clinton's just a centrist. [View All]

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The manic, submissive, hysterical mindset of his followers is frightening. Anyone who makes people so delusional and nutty and doesn't try to inject some reality into the equation is power hungry. I can tell you specifically why I don't like Obama:

(1) He's a haughty, nasty scold. No one is good enough for him. All the progressives of the past need to be "abandoned" for something "new." Never mind that the "boomers" stopped a war. Never mind that Black activists were inspirations to African Americans, women, and the gay rights movement. He talks smack about Gore. Talks smack about Kerry. There's a nasty undercurrent to him. Think of all the nasty things that HILLARY Clinton has said about other Democrats. (I can't think of any off the top of my head.) Think of all the nasty things John Edwards said about other Democrats (You'll come up real empty on that one.) But Obama is still the "good" guy somehow.

2) He's not a flip-flopper, he's duplicitous. Example: having a platform of LGBT rights, but then sending dog-whistle messages to the Black (and white) Christian movement through the tactical use of anti-gay ministers and performers to win SC. Example: running as if he's an anti-war candidate then admitting he didn't know if he'd've voted for the IWR, stating in 2004 that his position on the Iraq war was the same as Bush's position. Example: criticizing Clinton for votes he didn't even bother to fight for or register his position on (not to mention his 'present votes' and absenteeism in general. If I criticized you for voting for Bush but I didn't bother to vote at all because I had better things to do is that acceptable leadership? No. It's also obnoxious, haughty, and scolding (see 1). Example: running as if he is anti-war then giving a speech about expanding the military and using it to expand protect "vital assets" abroad to the Council on Foreign Relations (search his website for the speech.)

Good God, do I need to continue? Ok: lowering the composite IQ of Americans with empty political rhetoric, manipulating voter desperation.