Should Progressives View Robert Gibbs' Rebuke as a Triumph?

[NorthCarolina]

For OpEdNews: Bill Hare

In place of approaching White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' recent well publicized rebuke of progressives in a troubling context, how about instead examining the positive side?

My response is, congratulations progressives, you earned the rebuke. Now take a well deserved bow.

How long were progressives to be expected to play the same gullible duopoly game of rigging a system for the benefit of the top one-half of one percent?

Did it occur to Gibbs and others that progressives do not fit into the passive zombie mode to which the frequent viewers of Fox News and listeners to Rush Limbaugh delightedly occupy?

In 2008 the campaign of which Gibbs was a leader stressed comprehensive change as the forces of Barack Obama sought to turn back the effort of Hillary Clinton.

The Obama strategists knew how furious the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was as neocons ran rampant in a Bush-Cheney administration where 9/11 was used as a perpetual propaganda linchpin and war was launched in the name of preserving peace.

In George Orwell 1 it is taught that crises continue to be manufactured and/or used to justify conflict. With that conflict multinational corporations such as Halliburton, Bechtel, and Monsanto achieve gigantic profits.

This type of conduct, we were repeatedly told, would not be tolerated in an Obama Administration, nor would the likes of waterboarding and rendition. Miscreants would be investigated. If the facts warranted trial would follow and imprisonment rendered upon conviction.

So what happened when Obama achieved power? How vigilantly has Attorney General Eric Holder pursued egregious violations of the U.S. Constitution and international law?

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Interesting take on the Gibbs rant against the "professional left".

[Demeter]

1. Why? Did He Get Fired?

[tularetom]

2. Nah, he wasn't rebuked, he rebuked us

At first I read it the same way you did.

[NorthCarolina]

3. Of course not

Neither did Rahm. Gibbs was likely just parroting internal WH discussions. Just thought the article was an interesting spin on the discussion.

[NJmaverick]

4. The "professional left" should take those comments as a wake up call

Progressives can only hope they do

[Dr.Phool]

5. How would a conservadem know?

[midnight]

6. Good question.

[NJmaverick]

7. Let me know if you ever address the issue

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