Reply #29: Horseshit. [View All]

[Boo Boo]

First of all, Obama never expressed any support for, or solidarity with, the views of wsws.org. He never claimed to be "anti-war," so "anti-war" voters don't really have any excuse for feeling like they got their faces slapped. Obama said he thought Iraq was a big mistake, and that he is going to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. That position, AFAIK, has not changed.

He has also been very consistent in saying that he would commit more forces to Afghanistan. So, again, anti-war voters would have to be willfully deceiving themselves to think that Obama is now slapping them in the face.

I don't understand why leftist anti-imperialists like wsws.org would feel betrayed. Are they really so stupid that they actually thought that Obama was their guy?

Ask yourself something: who would Obama have to appoint as SecDef in order to avoid these criticisms? Is there anybody remotely mainstream that would be materially different in this respect than Gates? The truth is that to make wsws.org happy you'd have to appoint Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul. OTOH, I'd bet that Obama could appoint any number of people that would not really be, in the large, any different from Gates, but still avoid a lot of this slap-in-the-face shit simply because it wasn't Gates.