Smash Obama Now!

This is an excellent petition that is making the go-rounds. Obama is lashing out at his own base. His top aide, ultra-scumbag Republican Rahm Emmanuel, recently called Obama’s base “fucking retards“. Barack’s Republican press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said the base “needs drug testing.” We’ve had it with this piece of crap Obama. This letter lays out pretty well, but in sketchy detail that was probably necessary due to the format, Humanity’s case against the Republican Traitor Barack Obama. I added my own name to the list since I’m just as great and ought to be as famous as most of those listed.

An Open Letter to the Left Establishment

A call to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign to actively support protests against the Obama administration. With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is by now painfully obvious that the predictions of even the most sober Obama supporters were overly optimistic. Rather than an ally, the administration has shown itself to be an implacable enemy of reform. It has advanced repeated assaults on the New Deal safety net (including the previously sacrosanct Social Security trust fund), jettisoned any hope for substantive health care reform, attacked civil rights and environmental protections, and expanded a massive bailout further enriching an already bloated financial services and insurance industry. It has continued the occupation of Iraq and expanded covert and overt wars in South Asia and across the globe. Along the way, the Obama administration, which referred to us on the left as “f***ing retarded” individuals who required “drug testing,” stepped up the prosecution of federal war crime whistleblowers, and unleashed the FBI on those protesting the escalation of an insane war. Obama’s recent announcement of a federal worker pay freeze is cynical, mean-spirited “deficit-reduction theater”. Slashing Bush’s plutocratic tax cuts would have made a much more significant contribution to deficit reduction but all signs are that the “progressive” president will cave to Republican demands for the preservation of George W. Bush’s tax breaks for the wealthy Few. Instead Obama’s tax cut plan would raise taxes for the poorest people in our country. The election of Obama has not galvanized protest movements. To the contrary, it has depressed and undermined them, with the White House playing an active role in the discouragement and suppression of dissent – with disastrous consequences. The almost complete absence of protest from the left has emboldened the most right-wing elements inside and outside of the Obama administration to pursue and act on an ever more extreme agenda. We are writing to you because, as well-known writers, bloggers and filmmakers with access to a range of old and new media, you have in your power the capacity to help reignite the movement which brought millions onto the streets in February of 2003 but which has withered ever since. There are many thousands of progressives who follow your work closely and are waiting for a cue from you and others to act. We are asking you to commit yourself to actively supporting the protests of Obama administration policies which are now beginning to materialize. In this connection we would like to mention a specific protest: the civil disobedience action being planned by Veterans for Peace involving Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Joel Kovel, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern, several armed service veterans and others to take place in front of the White House on Dec. 16th. Should you commit yourselves to backing this action and others sure to materialize in weeks and months ahead, what would otherwise be regarded as an emotional outburst of the “fringe left” will have a better chance of being seen as expressing the will of a substantial majority not only of the left, but of the American public at large. We believe that your support will help create the climate for larger and increasingly disruptive expressions of dissent – a development that is sorely needed and long overdue. We hope that we can count on you to exercise the leadership that is required of all of us in these desperate times. Best Regards, Sen. James Abourezk Rocky Anderson Jared Ball Russel Banks Thomas Bias Cheryl Biren Noam Chomsky Bruce Dixon Frank Dorrel Gidon Eshel Jamilla El-Shafei Okla Elliott Justin Fielding (aka “Vast Left”) Norman Finkelstein Glen Ford Joshua Frank Margaret Flowers M.D. John Gerassi Henry Giroux Matt Gonzalez Kevin Alexander Gray Judd Greenstein DeeDee Halleck John Halle Chris Hedges Doug Henwood Edward S. Herman Dahr Jamail Rob Kall Louis Kampf Allison Kilkenny Jamie Kilstein Joel Kovel Mark Kurlansky Peter Linebaugh Scott McClarty Cynthia McKinney Dede Miller Russell Mokhiber Bobby Muller Christian Parenti Michael Perelman Peter Phillips Louis Proyect Ted Rall Michael Ratner Robert Lindsay Cindy Sheehan Paul Street Sunil Sharma Lambert Strether Jeffrey St. Clair Len Weinglass Cornel West Sherry Wolf Michael Yates Mickey Z Kevin Zeese Sign the petition here.

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3 thoughts on “Smash Obama Now!”

  1. “I added my own name to the list since I’m as great and ought to be as famous as most of those listed.”
    Amen to that. Take Michael Moore off though because he supports a leftist agenda but looks out for his own interests.

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