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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Cheney piles on while GOP time travels
Posted By John Grooms on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM
The onslaught of Obama-bashing from the right keeps on growing. The latest is a return to form by The Evil One himself. That's right, Dick Cheney has popped up from his latest undisclosed location (we're seeing him more now than when he was in office) to pile on about Obama's shocking, dangerous, treasonous handshake with Hugo Chavez, the earth-shaking event we wrote about yesterday.
It's funny in a way, as the non-stop bashing/seething/panicking by the right is a good indication of how irrelevant the far-right views of the previous administration and their followers have already become. As writer Andrew Sullivan has pointed out, their strategy, if you can call it that, seems to have been taken from the losing campaigns of John McCain and Hillary Clinton: try to define Obama as a far-left radical, keep up a drumbeat of gripes, offer no substantive alternative policies, and wait.
A friend pointed out that the GOP is basically going backward in time in its labeling of Obama. First, the President was an evil liberal, then he was Muslim terrorist, followed by communist and fascist. Next, he'll be Japanese, then an Injun, and finally, we suppose, British.
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