Knock Knock. Who's There? Left. Left who? The Left left Obama.

There's a little knock knock, joke going around

By Paul Krugman

Unsurprisingly, America's 'state' media claims that Democratic losses were due to the party moving too far to the left. As Paul Krugman wrote the day after the election:
"So, we’re already getting the expected punditry: Obama needs to end his leftist policies, which consist of … well, there weren’t any, but he should stop them anyway.
"What actually happened, of course, was that Obama failed to do enough to boost the economy, plus totally failing to tap into populist outrage at Wall Street.
"And now we’re in the trap I worried about from the beginning: by failing to do enough when he had political capital, he lost that capital, and now we’re stuck."
Eventually, Obama is going to have to figure out that the capitalist media are far from being his friend.
The media will continue to be stenographers for the Republicans, uncritically repeating as fact whatever lying talking point the Republicans push that day (like how he "nationalized" the country's health care system).
That means when the inevitable showdown and shutdown comes, the corporate-controlled media will put the entire blame on Obama -- unless he starts now to speak out forcefully when they report Republican lies as facts.
The other lesson from this election is that a awful lot of Americans are too busy trying to survive in our trickle-down economy to pay attention to what's going on.
They don't know the difference between the federal debt and the federal deficit and they only hear the news "teasers" that play before "American Idol" comes on.
But they like strong leaders who stand up for what they believe in -- even if what they believe in is a fantasy world based on badly-written books by an elitist Russian immigrant.
That's how Dubya got re-elected when most everyone thought he was not very bright and was heading the country in the wrong direction. They voted for him because he was heading the country in the wrong direction with confidence..
So man up Barack. It's going to be a knife fight. You'll have to leave the feather duster at home.