You are likely correct..but anger on those sites is palpable. They are calling Obama “Bush Jr”., and targeting undecideds on this vote. Some even saying they will leave the Dem Party over this issue. One poster saying they may go to Tea Party over Bill of Rights issues. I see as much or more anger at those sites over Syria as on FR. Don’t misunderstand..I’m not defending Libs here..just saying..I think anger over Syria transcends Party Lines.
Hopefully it wakes some of those dumbasses up. My optimism regarding that is slim, though..
>> I don’t know about an antiwar movement, but a stroll over to Daily Kos or Democratic Underground will show how angry libs are at Obama over Syria. They even have a petition dontattacksyria.com. You are likely correct..but anger on those sites is palpable. They are calling Obama “Bush Jr”., and targeting undecideds on this vote. Some even saying they will leave the Dem Party over this issue. One poster saying they may go to Tea Party over Bill of Rights issues. I see as much or more anger at those sites over Syria as on FR. Don’t misunderstand..I’m not defending Libs here..just saying..I think anger over Syria transcends Party Lines. <<
If the left is so seething with rage over Syria, have you heard a SINGLE Obama cheerleader publicly renounce him and say they would have voted for a different Dem in the RAT primary if they could do it over again? I haven't. The Kucinich crowd is at least consistently "anti-war" 100% of the time and would love to impeach Obama, but they make up about 5% of RAT primary voters, and never supported Obama in the RAT primary to begin with.
From what I see, the left is privately VERY "troubled" by Syria and they're babbling amongst themselves about how Obama must have been "bought" by the "military-industrial complex" (as if Obama had been previously been a heroic reformer and not a political hack and machine puppet). However, most of them seem to be trying to find a way to demonstrate how Obama's actions are DIFFERENT than Iraq, because no way in hell do they want to push him in the same category as the ultimate evil "war criminal", George W. Bush. The problem they have is none of them have been able to think of a valid excuse, so they're "torn" over the issue... by their own standards, Obama is a go-it-alone unilaterial cowboy who is bullying the world and killing innocent people, but you know, he "means well".
Basically, the difference between us and them is that WE have no problem expressing buyer's remorse in public if one of our guys sells us out (Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio). But the left will NEVER publicly come out against one of the marxist RATs they helped elect, no matter how much they may grumble about him when they're around other RATs. To say ANYTHING bad about Obama would help the dreaded "racist, sexist, homophobic, corporate-loving eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil Rethuglicans" and they cannot allow that. I can guarantee you that no matter HOW "upset" they get with Obama, if you put a gun to their head and had them do the 2012 election over again, they would vote FOR Obama to "stop Romney". Third party is skipping that part of the ballot is unacceptable because the GOP would benefit. RATs are blindly loyal to their own NO MATTER WHAT
The same is true when Bush was in power or any of the previous RAT leaders (Clinton, etc.). They will never ever denounce a RAT publicly for "waging war". Any Republican who voted for Iraq would be hounded forever by anti-war protesters who called them baby-killers and demanded the politician send own their sons and daughters to war. Any RAT who voted for Iraq would be immediately forgiven, because, you know, Bush "tricked them". For example, Rod Blagojevich voted for "Bush's war". Did you ever see a single leftist raise the issue and criticize Blago's judgment about it when he ran for Governor?
Call me cynical, but the lefties are laying low and will admit they "personally" think Syria is a terrible idea if you force them to talk about the subject, but they will never, EVER, publicly attack Obama over it.