Right wing whiplash
by digby
It’s a confusing time for wingnuts. And nobody tracks them the way Edroso does:
Last week we reported that rightbloggers were enraged the tyrant Obama was contemplating war with Syria. This week we can report that rightbloggers are enraged that the pussy Obama is avoiding war with Syria…
The Administration’s late flip from saber-rattling to a deal with Russia to remove Syria’s chemical weapons seems to have caught rightbloggers off-guard. At least when they were pretending to be peaceniks, they could follow the familiar stylesheets of previous anti-war movements. (No blood for O!)
When the switch came, they could hardly tell readers that they’d actually wanted war all along. So they complained about the way Obama got out of war: By coddling Assad and, especially, by making Valdimir Putin look good.
Two weeks back, Ace of Spades gave us “14 Reasons to Not Bomb Syria” and decreed “we cannot go to war under this clownshow’s disaster-movie leadership.” Comes the Russian deal and — record scratch! — Ace of Spades sneered at “Obama, the president that people love because he makes such efforts to avoid being decisive,” then became enraged at “the world’s most awkward weakling, Bassar al-Assad, openly taunting the US,” and then, get this, told us, “I actually would like, in my heart of hearts, to hit Bassar al-Assad (a longtime sponsor of terrorism, financier and logistics officer for Hezb’allah, and useful Iranian client/minion state)… I wish I could support this action. I can’t.” Spades said this was because he very recently came to believe that Al Qaeda is mixed up with the rebels, though readers not born yesterday may draw a different conclusion.
No kidding. What with Democrats contemplating war and them changing their minds and all, some of them are so confused they think we’ve gone back in a time capsule to 1962 and they think Vladimir Putin is Nikita Kruschev.
They love him, they hate him, they love him they hate him:
“Having eaten Obama’s lunch, Putin wanted to send a message to us in Obama’s favorite newspaper,” cheered Scott Johnson at Power Line. “…Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch. Now he wants to rub it in… He’s taking his shirt off and baring his chest in a manner that is calculated to make an impression outside Russia.”
Johnson wasn’t the only one fixated on Obama’s lunch and Putin’s naked chest. “Daddy Putin just spanked Obama,” declared Curt at Flopping Aces. “This whole debacle has been embarrassment for America… Just embarrassing… And now what is Daddy Putin up to?… Obama, upstaged and outsmarted at every turn.” What a daddy!
On Fox, Ralph “Blood ‘n’ Guts” Peters purred, “I don’t like Putin, but I respect that guy. He is tough. He delivers what he says he’ll deliver… He presents himself as a real He-Man… Our president talks tough, but in the clinch he’s gutless.”
It’s so hard to know who they’re supposed to hate these days, isn’t it?
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