I don’t share White House Spokesperson Robert Gibbs’ outrage that the “professional left” is currently being too critical of President Obama. What I am outraged about is that the professional left wasn’t more critical of Obama a year ago.

It’s hard to distance yourself from suggestively violent, divisive, extremist, racist rhetoric when you’ve so intentionally embraced it as your own

It’s critical that we see this moment not as a unique snapshot in one new presidency amidst an economic downturn but rather a moment of truth bared in a too-long history of elite interests playing puppet with our government and deceiving us all that democracy is the rule

In lemming-like fashion, the liberalati are joining the chorus undermining Obama to distract attention from where the fault really lies. Let’s look in the mirror and acknowledge what is really happening