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Over at The American Thinker, J.R. Dunn tells us about left-wing discontent with President Obama from the likes of Bill Maher, Frank Rich and, of course, Mark Halperin. Dunn argues that liberalism is bigger than any liberal (even Obama) and then likens the present day with the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917:

But here's the thing: from the liberal point of view, Obama does not exist as a separate entity, but only as a momentary expression of the liberal dogma. Liberalism will still exist long after Obama is gone -- or so they hope. So if it comes down to a choice between the messiah on one hand and the creed on the other, the messiah has to go. (I need scarcely point out that this is the traditional fate of messiahs -- false ones in particular.)

This is why Obama has been stung so badly by such deep thinkers as Halperin, Rich, and Maher. They are performing a salvage job, assuring that there will be plenty of daylight between Obama and liberalism by the time November 2012 rolls around. We will hear a lot more of it before then, covering all of the administration's policies, everything Obama has ever touched. It is their own version of the stab in the back legend -- everything would have been fine if it hadn't been for Obama, that centrist, that moderate, that traitor. Revolutions always eat their own -- the moderate social democrat Aleksandr Kerensky was a hero in early 1917 only to flee Russia one step ahead of the Bolsheviks six months later. Obama is undergoing the same process as regards his own failed revolution.

Which leaves me with this question. If President Obama is Kerensky then who will The Left embrace as the new Lenin?

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Bob K.| 7.12.11 @ 12:59PM

Good question! Apparently they didn't think about it over at "The American Thinker." Or maybe it will be released in the next installment?

Paul McGrath| 7.12.11 @ 1:17PM

"Such deep thinkers as Halperin, Rich, and Maher." That the left thinks that these clowns are deep thinkers tells you everything you want to know.

By the way, Kerensky was no Bolshevik and no hero to the Bolsheviks. He was, in fact, democratically elected. The Bolsheviks did not overthrow the czar, they overthrew a democratically elected goverment. Which means that J. R. Dunn is not exactly a deep thinker either.

PattyMor| 7.12.11 @ 1:24PM

Is this the beginning of the dump Obama for the savior Miss Hillary? Wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Bill was behind all the back stabbing. After all, the Clintons are always in the background, bidding their time, sharpening their knives.

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 7.12.11 @ 5:54PM

Who'll be the Left's new Lenin? I hope they pick Nancy Pelosi!! She sells so well on TV, and she really has a way of uniting the population behind her on any given topic (like Obamacare). Plus, I love it when she gets pissed off at a question she doesn't like, and then her face cracks open, exposing her skull, and her eyes fall out and lightning comes shooting out of those empty soulless sockets. I just love it!! She's very funny!! And another good thing about her is, she's only got about ten years left in her anyway (it takes a lot out of you shooting lightening out of your eyes, if you didn't know!!), so if we don't like her anymore, we can just wait her out.

Steelwimp| 7.12.11 @ 7:50PM

Three Factors which might protect us from totalitarianism: Paucity of real strong, competent, totalitarian personnel, character of the American People, and the private possession of firearms by the American People.
That said, there is always a totalitarian impulse (see Eric Hoffer). I think though, that when push comes to shove, the American character is so different from that of Europeans (thinking French and Russian Revolutions compared to American War of Independence). What I am really worried about is the demographic changes in the country. When you have so many people on the wagon and so few pulling the wagon. This country was built on the concept of "No Taxation Without Representation"; we have morphed into a country where we have Representation Without Taxation!

Occam's Tool| 7.12.11 @ 7:56PM

It was James Buchanan, who famously said that he acknowledged "No Ruler but Law," and sat on his ass during succession because he felt it was illegal to stop the Union from breaking up. He has an overall rank of 42, just above Warren G Harding. I disagree; Harding left the country in far better shape.

The only thing that could rank one lower than Buchanan is to be President during the 1st nuke assault on a US City. Other than Obummer, what Candidate do you think I believe is most likely to have that happen to him as President?

Occam's Tool| 7.12.11 @ 8:00PM

By the way, to put this in writing: The first US City likely to be Nuked will be Honolulu from Auckland, at least until 2012. New Zealand has a Ron Paulian foreign policy, great relationships with Islamic countries, piss poor airport security, and non-stop flights to Honolulu from Auckland every day. While Obama is President, the two cities to hit will be Chicago and Honolulu. Hit the Kaffir where he lives, you see.

Occam's Tool| 7.12.11 @ 8:01PM

Kucinich. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.

gloriaphelan| 7.13.11 @ 3:34AM

Paul gives absolute specifics, he is clear on the issues and is not
afraid to tell you where he stands, no soundbites here. He has
integrity, principles, and has held the same stance for the last 30
years. I want him as my president in 2012. RON PAUL 2012!!! http://bit.ly/qCiGXh

LC Jackboot| 7.13.11 @ 12:29PM

PaulBot alert on Aisle 1.

LC Jackboot| 7.13.11 @ 12:31PM

Followed that link. Seems the author can't spell Reagan correctly. What journalistic supremacy. LOL

phosda| 9.12.11 @ 2:22AM

Michele Bachman is Lenin, or for a comparison the lovely Jackboot is likelier to get, Obama is van Schleicher, which makes Dick Armey Hitler.

Lest this be considered profane, bigoted, or grossly impolite, know this: my grandfather was one of only two members of his large family to survive the Holodomor, the gulags, and the Great Purge, only to be hauled in by the Einsatzkommando 4A in Lviv a few years later, and deported to the first of several camps. Before he died at the ripe old age of 49, my grandfather insisted that Lenin was a lamb compared with Stalin, and that compared with Stalin, Hitler was an amateur. His proof? He was alive, as was his son, my father, one of the babies born in Dachau. Despite being nearly 67, the war has never ended for my father, which means it has never ended for me, either, even though I came of age in the aughties. All this to say I don't make comparisons to either the Soviets or the Reich glibly, but I see altogether too many parallels between the Tea Party and both the Soviets and the Reich to ignore them: the chauvinism, the militarism, the faux-populism, the exploitation of financial crises, the anti-intellectualism, the xenophobia. Here on this very page Steelwimp is yearning for totalitarianism, Occam's Tool is lamenting "demographic changes," which is an underhandedly polite way of saying America is overrun with filthy Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks and Jews, and Jackboot -- need I say more? -- is scoffing at Dunn's "journalistic supremacy" while giving every indication that he himself is practicing the white kind.

Kindly remember that most of the comments that made it past moderators are wildly offensive, and that the offensive need very desperately to be offended, and that Constitution defending patriots don't make a habit of denying their critics their First Amendment rights.