...winner of the prize for “most unhinged right-wing commentary on the Iran crisis,”

[laststeamtrain]

Obama hates freedom, loves Islamofascism

By Daniel Luban

It’s too early to declare a winner of the prize for “most unhinged right-wing commentary on the Iran crisis,” but National Review Online’s Andy McCarthy (currently a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) makes a strong bid for it with his post today. While most right-wingers are taking the line that Obama sympathizes with the protesters, but is failing to stand up for them strongly enough, McCarthy argues that Obama’s response to the Iran situation is in fact based on his deep ideological sympathy for Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. “The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society,” McCarthy writes. This is because Obama is an adherent of “radical Leftism,” an ideology which has “much more in common than not, especially when it comes to suppression of freedom, intrusiveness in all aspects of life, notions of ’social justice,’ and their economic programs.” (However, McCarthy neglects to mention the Frank Gaffney thesis that Obama might simply be a radical Muslim himself.)...http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=268

[Gman]

1. I think they compete to see who is crazier

I really do. This guy had to work real hard to beat out Glen Beck on this one.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Why not? We have Bill Maher telling us that Obama is a Republican, so...

... why not have Andy McCarthy telling us that Obama is so left wing that he has ideological sympathy with Ahmadinejad and Khamenei.

Reality and the blogosphere have little in common.

[damntexdem]

3. Bill Maher makes reasonable criticisms of President Obama -- whether or not we agree with them.

This RW nutcase is simply in lala land.

[Buzz Clik]

4. I guess we all see it from our own perspective.

[DebbieCDC]

5. "Hard Left"?

Put down that crack pipe.