What's a partisan liberal?
Um, no, we criticize Obama a lot for some of those things. You just selectively forget that.
Do you mean you criticize Obama while on the phone with your friend or with friends over dinner? Because on the national level I have heard nothing....
1) Let's hit the biggie...Guantanamo Bay. Leading the cry about GITMO was the Democratic Party. We heard comments about Nazi germany and Russian Gulags. Closing GITMO was a campaign promise. Yet, once in office, Obama struggled with the same question Bush had about what to do with the prisoners that nobody wanted. GITMO remains open and in use to the silence of the Left.
2) Car company bail-outs under Bush were mocked for protecting the wealthy by the Democratic Party. Yet, this act was mimicked by Obama along with a stimulus package to protect companies and banks "too big to fail." Liberals immediately changed their minds and supported Obama.
3) Civilian deaths as the result of UAV drones were source of criticism for how badly the conduct of war was going. Yet despite the mulitpliction of these strikes and the amount of civilian deaths involved, the Left is silent. Whatever happend to that great bitch about "sovereignty?" I guess Obama gets a pass. Sending drones into Pakistan and dropping bombs in Libya must have everything to do with obeying the "soveriegnty" of others. And we have ratcheted up sanctions on Iran as well.
4) Bush's surge in Iraq was scoffed. So much so that Pelosi attempted to give credit to Iran for Iraq's turn around. Yet Obama mimicking the surge in Afghanistan was viewed as wise and supported by Liberals.
5) Bush was criticized by Liberals for insulting Europe and our allies. Europeans even gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize to encourage a "Change." This didn't stop Obama from returning the bust of Churchill to England that Tony Blair gave the White House. Obama declined dinner with the Sarkozys to have a night out in Paris. Obama rejected a US-EU summit in Madrid. Obama abruptly changed America’s missile-defense plans with Poland dismissing Pole sentiment. Obama turned down the invitation to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite these snubs, the Liberals no longer criticized relations between the White House and Europe. By the way, today Obama blamed our economic problems on Europe. How does that sit with Europeans?
6) Obama promised the most transparent administration in history while on the campaign trail. He praised whistleblowing in the past under Bush, arguing that "such acts of courage and patriotism should be encouraged rather than be stifled." Yet, his Justice Department has pressed criminal charges against five suspected leakers under the Espionage Act, which is more than all other administrations combined, including Nixon’s. As far as wire tapping, a few laws of accountability have merely allowed the program to go on. Where's the Liberal complaint over the last few years? And today, despite the transparency that leaks provide, Obama denies his part in any leaks. Obama can't have it both ways, yet Liberals are more than willing to allow him to.
7) Despite gaining the votes from minority immigrants with the promise of dealing with the southern border, he has yet to make a serious attempt to reform immigration nor even talked about the importance of our immigrants from the south to the dismay of Hispanic voters.
8) Despite his expression on the importance of global warming and energy consumption, the Copenhagen Summit was a flop and the cap-and-trade energy billed got stuck in the Senate because of Obama's decision to make health legislation his priority.
For all the criticisms of Bush, Liberals really are forgiving of Obama. Unemployment remains at a high level. The economy is still struggling. So....where's this fabled "Change?" Wasn't "A Vote for McCain a Vote for Bush?" Where's the national level Liberal whining today? It doesn't exist, because Liberals don't want to acknowledge how foolish they are. They want Obama to be that dream just as much as they wanted Kennedy to be Camelot. Hell, even Clinton's infidelities and treatment of his wife and child was forgiven quite quickly among Liberal women. Liberals often forget what they believe in.