Committed Leftist Thinks Obama is a "Psychopathic Megalomaniac" ?!

Drudge has it that some of the Left are turning on Obama.  This doesn't mean they'll vote for Romney and the election is still a ways off, but this is interesting nonetheless.

Way back when I was a Democrat (pre 9/11), you couldn't get much farther Left than Alexander Cockburn, and now he's quoted in this piece at Forbes.com: "Obama Gets Left Behind" - as follows:

 

There’s a cancer in the presidency called Barack Obama.  We have a psychopathic megalomaniac occupying the White house who could be compared to Nero, Caligula, Stalin, or Pol Pot in his disdain for human life. He and his coven of other like minded DC psychopaths and sociopaths are on a murdering spree and like a third world dictator Obama can have someone and their family (including you) executed or blasted to smithereens with a thumbs up or down. This is sickening to me. They are so blase about murdering that they refer to the hit list photos as “baseball cards”. Killing is a game or a sport to them.

There is a “cancer on the Presidency” and that cancer has metastasized throughout Washington DC. It was there before Obama arrived but he brought a whole new and virulent strain with him. Every time there is a shameful incident or embarrassing event perpetrated by “a few bad apples” we hear from the  DC psychopaths that “That is not who we are”. They are incorrect.  It is who they are in DC. It is not who we the real everyday thinking feeling Americans are. I certainly am not one of the people to be included in their cumulative we.” — Alexander Cockburn, writing for his online publication Counterpunch.

I'll be damned, he sounds like a raving right-wing extremist, doesn't he? One of those bitter clingers.

WARNING: Do NOT let this go to your head. We cannot - I repeat, cannot - get complacent. (But it is fun to read.)

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Ever since word of the hit list leaked out, I've been wondering when -- if ever -- someone of real stature on the Left was going to scream in protest. Cockburn is certainly someone of stature on the Left -- after all, he writes regularly for the Nation, which should, I think, place him on the radical Left -- and here he is emitting what sounds very much like a primal scream. This is good. The revelation that Obama's been sitting in the White House giving thumbs up and thumbs down like a Roman emperor dispensing with gladiators has apparently alienated the most fervent part of his base -- the very part he wooed and won a few weeks ago with his support of gay marriage. Any disenchantment among this most radicalized portion of the electorate can only weaken The One in November. I'm not placing any bets -- but this is heartening. (By the way, Cockburn has always wielded a poisonous pen, but "psychopathic megalomaniac" is pretty venomous even by his standards. This is really remarkable stuff.)

[Zimriel]

I hadn't noticed Cockburn since I quit lurking at lucianne's site in, oh, 2002. I remember that the commenters there paid attention. And yes, he was a whacked-out lefty of the Chomsky school, like Fisk. (At least he's against Pol Pot, which Chomsky famously wasn't.) When I struck out for the blogosphere, I noticed that people had quit caring what Cockburn said. The problem here is that Cockburn just sucks. He never was any good at formulating an argument. No-one outside the Nation even bothers to link to the fool. So how did he get where he is? The old-fashioned way. He's the son of Claud Cockburn. Much like John Podhoretz would be a low-level blogger today were it not for daddy Norm. (At least Chris Buckley is able to write a novel.) So: "stature". Maybe in 2000 he still had it. Not now.

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