The meme on the fringe-left is that Obama is the second coming of Bush and the meme on the fringe-right is that Obama is Hitler re-incarnated. both of these are what is normally called Feindbild enemy image. Obama is neither Bush nor Hitler but sense the fringe-left have decided to demonize him and cast him as the "other" we see them associated him with the "devil", in the case of the left the devil is and was Bush and in the case of the right and America at large the devil is and was Hitler.
This tactic of demonizing Obama and his cabinet cannot be considered to be an attempt to "push him to the left" it has a consequence, the sad thing is, while we have people like Representative Frank calling the idiots who equate Obama with Hitler out, the left is happy or content with the demonization of Obama and his people as Bush-the third.
Ariana Huffington has been on a Jihad against this administration ever since the administration Opted-out of the "let's nationalize the banks" dogma. She and her Blog have been beating the drum of getting members of the Obama administration to resign whether it is Biden, Summers or Geithner. One thing is clear if you don't agree with Ariana She wants you OUT.
The point I am trying to make is that this "he, and he should resign" is an indirect attack on the president sense the demonetization process have not take hold you they cannot start a frontal attack on him yet. We have headlines like these every now and then
notice the headline says
Obama state secret privilege sound just like Bush
b<but if you follow the link you would come to a Newsweek article with the headline </p>
Obama Secrecy Watch II: A State Secrets Affidavit Straight from the Bush Era
you could say that both articles essentially say the same thing, but notice the "active verb object" in the Huffington article "sounds" the Idea is to say that Obama in definite terms sounds just like Bush, the demonising Operative phrase is "just like Bush". this was from November-3-2009.
here we have the same formulation "Obama is Bush" but the write lets the Ayatollah say it even though from the article itself you can see that the Mullah is not saying that the two men are interchangeable but the huffingtonpost headline serves the purpose of "Obama demonetization"
the headline
Ayatollah Speech Obama is just like Bush
what the Ayatollah actually said was
"This means the same wrong path as the Bush administration and nothing less,"
Sometimes Obama surpasses the ultimate lefty-evil as the case is with this
headline it says
Obama worst than Bush on endangered species
it links to a The Examiner and their headline for this story is
Obama's Interior Ken Salazar starting out worse than Bush on species protection
notice the difference.
The theme of "Obama is just like Bush" sometimes takes a transcendental nature here we have a blog-post the headline says
Geithner is Obama's Rumsfeld
it's not that Geithner is wrong or ill-suited for his job, they are not saying that he is Brownie but ...Rumsfeld, here it is not just Obama that is evil but also Geithner.
Finally Today we have the queen herself write a
piece with the title
Will the unemployment disaster be Obama's Katrina?
now think about that, ..... (Will HRC be Obama's Poland)
They are not doing this to be productive they are doing it because they too need a permanent enemy to survive ..... they need the "other" to agitate against and in this case the "Other" just happens to be Obama.
I have nothing against constructive criticism and loyal opposition but you don't have to demonize your leaders to oppose them or to be against their policies ....
TIME TO END THE DEMONIZATION (we all know the role that Bush plays in the liberal mythology)