The Left Upset With Obama

Allegedly Out Of Step With The Left

May 19. 2009

President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama’s core political base is upset with him. Liberals are displeased regarding his stance on immigration, torture, guns and the gay agenda. 

Some on left souring on Obama

5/17/09 3:12 PM EDT - …But the attention to protests from conservatives who don’t support Obama – and almost certainly never would – could obscure the far more significant political threat he now faces.

Barely four months into his presidency, Obama is confronting growing dissatisfaction among members of his liberal base, who feel spurned by a series of his early decisions on issues ranging from guns to torture to immigration to gay rights.

The list got longer last week as Obama reversed his earlier decision to release photos of detainees abused in U.S. military custody and announced plans to try some terror suspects before military commissions – though on the campaign trail he railed against earlier versions of the tribunals.

A few, like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, have even hurled the left’s ultimate epithet – suggesting that Obama’s turning into George W. Bush...

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