Mike Malloy's Anti-Obama Rant

The first traitor to the Democratic Presidential nominee with a national microphone made his move to support McCain and urge others to do so. On his radio show , billed as "Speaking Truth to Power," Mike Malloy abandoned all progressive logic as he spent his entire show in a rant against Barack Obama to the amazement of listeners and those who have heard him push for Obama's election. Citing Obama's vote in favor of the FISA law and change of heart on allowing off-shore drilling, Malloy said that Obama would not be able to bring about the change that he has championed and that those who follow him through eight years of failure will allow the Republican fascism to point to that failure as evidence that the government the Republicans have put in place by the Bush/Cheney cannot be undone.

To satisfy his predominantly progressive audience's need to have him not completely go GOP, Malloy stated that he wants Americans to elect a Democratic Congress so that they can have a veto proof majority for, in his reasoning, the President does not pass laws and does not declare wars. So where has he been burying his head while Bush/Cheney set in motion all of the predicates for the current energy gouging and war on a nation that neither attacked us, nor had the capability of doing so.

It goes against my nature of a combatant against those who have corrupted the principles of American Democracy to throw in the towel because the going will be tough. If we adopt such a defeatist attitude now, even if Obama is able to withstand the barrage of character assassination he will face before November, how will we be ready to put our hearts and souls into doing our part to undo the damage these Corporatists have done to the American economy, environment, educational institutions, and healthcare system? If American's as he put it think Obama is the second coming then they are going to be sorely disappointed and on this point I agree. To fail to recognize the sacrifices and work we have ahead as citizens; taking back our government from the rich and powerful interests is a recipe for disaster.

Barack Obama is inspirational enough, intelligent enough, committed to changing the status quo enough, and states our needs so eloquently that he can mobilize Americans, as did Roosevelt and Kennedy, to act in the national interest. Yes, though derided as some elitist statement by Republicans, "We are the ones we have been waiting for" is the absolute truth; and we damn well better get on our J.O.B. and get to it. A syndicated Radio show with a listenership as broad as Malloy's should be urging its audience to register voters, volunteer for poll watching, and encouraging citizens to get prepared to volunteer services as New Years resolutions that must be kept

Stir in Dana Millbank's second hand quote of Obama's taken out of context and you get a picture of how many who call themselves Democrats just cannot wrap their minds around the prospect of a black president; even one who is half white!

Comments

[appetite88]

Obama is trying to please everyone some of the time rather than please some of us all the time. He forgets how Bush took office however. Many of us are still waiting for justice. When the economy gets bad enough and Americans actually get hungry, it's not going to be pretty. The millionaires are going to be run out of the capital. Malloy is keenly reflective the intensity of the times. Obama has to be willing to take strong actions to straighten the course. While appeasement was a mischaracterization of his positions on Iran, it is a highly appropriate description of his approach to evil on the home front. If he doesn't do it through brutal legislation, then hard-working Americans who lose their homes and start going hungry will do it through other brutal means.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

How can you say he is trying to please everyone when you are obviously displeased at his approach. you don't own the totality of political righteousness. It is obvious from the reference to Bush as having thought that Bush offered any modicum of justice. Obama is trying to please enough voters to vote for the changes he expouses.

Hunger is a motivator and the curtrent cost of food under Bush is impacting bellies now. Malloy vassilates between dissatisfaction and disdain for the right, and support and disgust for the only viable alternative, Obama. The millionaires are needed to get behind alternatives to their market driven approach so we should be careful who we run out of town.

Compromise and appeasement are different and until you have a better handle on what is required to gain power in a right wing oriented electorate; as evidenced by your expectation of justice from a fascist like Bush, you should refrain from defending Malloy and those quitters to the cause because you fear the effects of an awakened middle class jerked conscious by the loss of their homes, their mobility, and their insatiable appetites.

[WayneTobin]

I have been a criminal defense attorney for 12 years. After the Rehnquist Reign of Terror, you don't have a 4th Amendment. So quit moaning about Obama's FISA vote. Besides, now we can spy on the Republicans in case they are planning on a Franco scenario after Obama is elected. Don't forget that the conservatives were planning a coup against FDR. As for off-shore oil drilling, Obama is willing to compromise on limited drilling as part of a comprehensive energy package. That's the way the world works. Malloy makes many good points but if you try to be too virtuous you end up like Robespierre. My oldest son is 15. If we go to war in Iran, and we just may if McCain is elected, they'll have to reinstate the draft. I don't want my son dying on some god-forsaken Asian terrain because some lefties go their undies in a bundle about FISA. Obama and the new Congress can always amend it. So pull your head out of your backside. Don't make me come through this computer!!!

[dadw5boys]

Some one got a BIG CHECK to pay for his change of heart!!!!!!!!!

[littlemanintheboat]

Mike is just representing the intense frustration the progressives with (figuratively) balls (and guns) are
feeling. I hope he's not right... but get ready for some unreal times. Comfy Americans just cannot fathom
the upset that the next few years might, MIGHT become... Mike can see the tsunami coming while
so many others are running to the beach...

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

I live where New Years Eve sounds like Baghdad during Shock and Awe, we know what time it is. It's time to drop labels and pick up shovels, hammers and nails and do something in the communities left out of the economic Boon we've lived through under the Repugnicats! If all the blood is in the balls then turn upside down and get with it!

[alieninvader]

Unfortunately we live in a world where money talks louder than votes, and believe me, my money doesn't talk very loudly. Until we fix the system, including campaign finance, we will never have the candidates we want. But for now, we choose the best available and that's BO.

[sueno]

I'm a fan of Mike Malloy,
I understand his frustration and this has been a hard election on everyone.
Still, Mike knows better-
Mike gets to run his mouth, and sit in his comfy office, WOO HOO
Mike Malloy needs to worry about starting to look and sound like RUSH!
He should be careful not to become delusional in his fame-

[crewislife]

Did anyone actually listen to what Mike Malloy was saying? He was NOT saying that people should vote for McCain, and not Obama. This couldn't be further from the truth. He was saying that it may, and I stress MAY, take the election of John McCain to wake our country up for the right-wing nightmare.

[Paul Peete - Huffpost Blogger]

crewislife,
I did listen to Mike, and he did indeed advocate that voters let McCain in and spare Obama the destruction he would face trying to right the ship these fascists have taken off course. Then after Obama is more seasoned elect him. His logic is flawed and his microphone reaches too many to allow this to go unchallenged. If this eight years of Bush hasn't awakened America, we must be sleeping with the fishes!

[mjc]

Indeed, if Geo W Bush and Dick Cheney haven't shown us how easily fascism can come to this country, nobody can. Obama does need more seasoning but the other Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, can put us on the road to a reasonably democratic country again. The first indication that Barack Obama was not "The One" was his eschewing of the campaign financing by the feds. Then the landslide toward fascism from his campaign continued with his statements on NAFTA, limited gun control, capital punishment for crimes other than murder, flip-flop on Iraq, mental distress not considered a reason for an abortion, and FISA. He still continues to flip but the amount of posting space is limited. Obama is the one who will continue our fall into fascism.

[hailyeah]

I listen to Malloy often and tried to give him the benefit of the doubt as a momentary lapse of judgement. I won't anymore. He is on his soapbox again tonight and makes no more sense than last night. Thanks for pointing the way we need to go!

[lafrance]

When running in a general election, the point to sweep up all those independents and moderates of the other party. Not just cater to your base. Neither party has enough in their own porty to win. That is why you fight for the center. As derided as the center is by some, anyone with any intelligence knows you have to get more of the center to vote for you to win.
You don't make change by losing.

[sand cat]

I'm a bit more than "disappointed" (bitterly or otherwise) at the end of the Fourth Amendment.

[uhappytoo]

The problem with his campaign since winning the primary battle is that he has shown how easily he can be rolled into a "change" of positions. The FISA vote was never explained in a way that made sense. His claim that it would keep wiretaps legal was simply not true. FISA was in place and was going nowhere had the new changes to the law not been approved. The "not true" part is deeply concerning to me.

[sand cat]

AMEN!

[BCubedReg]

Once again prejudice reigns through.

[Strywever]

I, too, was disappointed by his changing stance on FISA. However, he DID NOT reverse himself on off-shore drilling, and I cannot understand why liberal and conservative pundits alike are getting away with characterizing it that way! He simply said that he still thinks it's a bad idea, but he would not make it a show-stopper if reluctantly considering it was the only way to move forward. How is that a flip-flop????

Do we really WANT a president who will never compromise even if it's necessary to eliminate paralysis? Haven't we had enough of that for the last 15 years??

[Pupadup4oBama]

Hear Hear, and hear hear to Demfriend as well!

You nailed it right on the head - do we REALLY want a president who cannot and will not compromise on anything. Also, if he has to make a few switches in order to get stuff done i'm all for it - as long as it's 2 steps back and 3 steps forward.
I've learned in my life that sometimes you just have to cut your losses in order to gain ground somewhere else.
Obama is only one person - he is human - he will make mistakes - we have to support him and be there WITH him.
I'd rather have him make mistakes and learn from them, then keep going through with the same mistakes over and over - which isn't that by definition "insanity"?

[amethystlady2]

I agree wih you Pupadup and Strywever...I heard what he said about off-shore drilling...as well as all the conservatives and media types...and I heard EXACTLY what he said...

I don't hear Molloy anymore here in the Denver area...Air America took him off the air...of course, the radio station he is on here is owned by one of the biggest conservative, right-wing groups...Clear Channel...

But if Molloy is going this nuts, maybe its a great thing I don't hear him anymore...after getting in a heated argument with a former friend over her sending out a false email, and then her deriding me AND Obama, I just don't have the stomach for any more of this racist and disgusting battering of Obama...

Bless him, he is trying to be nice, but I intend to send some articles from Huff's Post to his campaign manager...through his website...there has to be a way to let him know we are behind him when he lets McCain have it with both barrels...

[Marshall Lucky]

"Do we really WANT a president who will never compromise even if it's necessary to eliminate paralysis? Haven't we had enough of that for the last 15 years??"

Compromise? Caving in is more like it. Why is it that Republicans can find candidates with the guts to stand up for things, no matter how unpopular -even if it means stalemate- but Democrats have to settle for people with only the cowardice of their convictions?

I'd rather have someone who sticks to their principles. If that means the government is paralyzed, so be it. Nothing is always preferable to something bad.

[demfriend]

The things I have learned with this election cycle is that we as progressive, liberals or whatever the hell we want to call ourselves, we cannot expect a candidate who is perfect nor one who will do as we bid. We have had "president" who has run our dear country into the ground. He lied and got us into a war which has killed more than 4000 and counting and thousand of injured damaged troops. He has made back door business deals with large companies in the oval office with us having to watch the destruction without any means to stop his ways of stomping on the Constitution like it was toilet paper, one ply. We have watch this man refuse to change his stance on anything unless it suited his "investors". And now we have the opportunity however slim it might be, to bring back to our country the pride and investment at the citizen level with Obama who has changed his mind as the situations have changed. Do we know why he changed his mind every time? No. Do we want someone again who canot change his mind/vision when he needs to? Do we need someone like McCain who changes his mind as Bush has when the money flows from big oil the chant changed. He can be bought where Barrack cannot be.

[geobushono]

look to Venezuela when you tell me it can't be done.
Those Elections are as pure as the driven snow when compared to Ohio, for instance.

[jmpurser]

I too have been bitterly disappointed by Obama's stances on FISA, health care, abortion, and the death penalty. Frankly I have no problem with his energy plan. However, being disappointed in Obama does not lead a progressive or liberal to believe McCain is better by any rational chain of thought.

[Fabienne]

I presume you are anti-choice, since Obama's stance on abortion rights in solidly pro-choice.

[TRYKER]

I too have been bitterly disappointed..."

Bitterly? Isn't that a bit extreme?

I'll bet Santa got an earful when you were a kid.