Obama has disappointed me greatly a number of times since I was swooning right along with the rest of us over his brilliant performance at the 2004 convention. His kind of pragmatism is too removed for my blood, and his ONLY excuse for any of it is that is what it takes to get what he wants. In fairness, I don’t believe he wants to be president for himself alone, that he’d abandon us utterly for that “simple” achievement. I think he wants to and will do great things, but he has repeatedly dropped us in pursuit of this office. He dropped some great men whose whole hearts have gone into making him even greater than they. He’s dropped the integrity of the Constitution a few times. He’s caved in and told a bunch of maniacs with many decades of conditioning into the witless entitlement to gain that he would nuke Iran for them if it gets strong enough to deter them from continuing their six decade murdering spree.

I think he wants to be greater than JFK, and so I believe he will do everything he can, even risk his life, to prevent any more filthy American aggression under the guise of protecting Israel, but I am appalled that he would be so downright venal, or so downright ignorant, as to use that SHIT about map wiping. It’s practically my mantra that these people are beaten to pulps with the need for expediencies like this, and it is not necessarily the kind of meaningful that kills, but… it actually does kill… in the end. Everything they do and say costs lives! Everybody forgets that.

The interesting thing about Obama’s calculated (some would say necessary) pandering is that some right wingers actually regard Obama with more suspicion and even contempt for his display at AIPAC, charging him with saying a markedly different thing to different audiences, if you read reader reactions in press like J-Post.