He’s Not Your Boyfriend

I am utterly sick of all this carrying on here about how people are not allowed to criticize Barack Obama.

He’s not your boyfriend.

(crossposted from naranja)

He’s your President. You should be holding him to account. You should be scrutinizing him very carefully.

You HIRED him to be President.

You VOTED for him to represent your best interests.

I don’t care how pretty he is, or how pretty his family is.

That’s NOT the point.

He is the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.

He’s not a family member.

Yes, I know; some here spent a huge amount of energy getting him elected. That was a good thing. I’m proud of all of you for that.

But ENOUGH of this flaming people for saying; “Hey, quit being so defensive of this elected official!”

Quit hide reccing good bloggers off this site for doing so.

You accomplish NOTHING good by doing so. All you do is encourage censorship.

Is that what you want, Kossacks? More censorship?

I’ll freely grant all of those of you who busted your butts to get Obama elected, kudos. I think it needed to be done.

But WTF is all this hysterical shit about where people get hide recced for saying they are not happy with elected officials?

Barack Obama is an elected official. If we do not allow criticism of him, we are no better than any authoritarian group.

Deal, people. Those of you who keep doing this are KILLING the democratic party, not to mention us leftists, whom you seriously need if you want our President to win another term.

Barack Obama is alienating the left, and he will not win votes from the right by catering to them. Because the right is rift with racists.

Think about it. Do you really need the right that much?

Because you’re losing us, the left; Kossacks. You’re losing us bigtime.