White House Fool Report: In your heart you know he's left

FarmAid 2005 via Kate McKinnon.

Happy Afterbirthday, Mr. President! And happy to hear you saying the right things:

He said hard-liners in Iran who chant “death to America” are “making common cause with the Republican caucus.”

and

“If the rhetoric in these ads and the accompanying commentary sounds familiar, it should,” Mr. Obama said. “Many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making the case against the Iran nuclear deal.”

As well as pleased to welcome Senators Tim Kaine, Barbara Boxer, and Ben Nelson to the Doing the Right Thing caucus on the Iran nuclear accord. Senator Schumer? Chuck? Are you there, Chuck?

There are more Marxist Obots out there, I'm glad to say, starting with one really wonderful one, the Middle East expert Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss. He made such a lovely statement:

Of course it depends how you define left, but on several issues I care deeply about, from opening Cuba to healthcare to racial justice to, most important, the Iran deal, Obama is pushing the country left, trying to solidify gains that will make his presidency historic. Palestine was also clearly on that list, given his description of the humiliations of the occupation in Cairo in ’09, but he was stopped cold by the Israel lobby and did not have the political smarts to know how to take it on, or the political base to be able to maneuver.

Now he seems much freer. His speech to the White House Correspondents dinner where he had an “anger translator” who expressed racial resentment, his “bucket” (Fuck it) list where he said he didn’t give a shit about any political consideration, his inspiring performance in Charleston, his mastery at the press conference two weeks ago in answering criticisms of his Iran deal and the signs that he is solidifying support in the Congress, and his visit to the El Reno prison at which he stated There but for the grace of God go I and many of you too, motioning at the reporters—these are great political moments for me, they show someone who wants to use what power he has to do good in what time he has left. The era of passivity and fecklessness is coming to an end.

Read the whole thing, with Michael Smith's cranky Nobot response.