Why Are Obama’s Supporters So Dumb?

Sullivan argued in 2007 that Obama could transcend petty partisan bickering and chill the overheated rhetoric of our political discourse. Now, this week, Sullivan tells us we are dumb for criticizing The Transcendent One.

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So much for chilling the overheated rhetoric.

Obama's Two-Timing with Wall Street

The Newsweek article takes aim at Obama's critics on the left, complaining that they unfairly view him as "a hapless tool of Wall Street, a continuation of Bush in civil liberties, a cloistered elitist unable to grasp the populist moment that is his historic opportunity." The article softens this a little by allowing that the president's critics on the left are "less unhinged" than those on the right.

Seemingly on cue, an Occupy D.C. crowd of more than 1,000 amassed outside the gates of the White House last night, and someone threw a smoke bomb at the building. The Secret Service dispersed the crowd of "less unhinged," leftist, bomb-throwing, critics, and made no arrests.

It is alarming anytime someone launches an explosive device, even a relatively harmless one, at the president's residence. By the way, can anyone recall a Tea Party rally that ended with bomb throwing and a Secret Service crackdown? I can't.

Last night's incident illustrates just how dangerous the Democrats' appeasement of the radical and quasi-anarchical left has been. Democrats have been eager to tap into the potential election-year energy of a grassroots, populist movement like Occupy Wall Street. Therefore, they have been unwilling to speak out against the movement's lawless excesses. Desecration of public property, murders, overdoses, and a plague of rodent infestations -- all these hazards have been documented and roundly ignored by Democratic leaders.

Obama has been raising campaign cash at a record-setting rate, and he is getting much of it from our nation's big banks. Employees of Goldman Sachs have given more than a million dollars to Obama's campaign fund. JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup are also among the top ten corporations funneling money into the Obama campaign through employee contributions.

Over the past year, masses of angry occupiers got together to protest the corruption and political influence of Wall Street's big banks. These same banks have given Obama mountains of campaign cash.

Do Democrats really think the angry protestors now criticizing the president will suddenly decide to support him when the election draws near? Do they think his critics on the left are that dumb? If this week's Newsweek cover story is any indication, then yes, perhaps they do.