Since it is common knowledge...

...that I have a secret "agenda" that is, in secret secrecy, secretly "supporting" Obama (because I keep begging the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism to get real and not be commandeered by nutjobs who take Donald Trump seriously and are still wasting our time with "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim" lunacy, I offer this deft evisceration of the grotesque hypocrisies of the garden variety Leftist Obama worshiper:

[A]sk a good movement liberal or progressive about the two and you'll quickly be informed that yeah, Ron Paul's good on the war stuff -- yawn -- but otherwise he's a no-good right-wing reactionary of the worst order, a guy who'd kick your Aunt Beth off Medicare and force her to turn tricks for blood-pressure meds. By contrast, Obama, war crimes and all, provokes no such visceral distaste. He's more cosmopolitan, after all; less Texas-y. He's a Democrat. And gosh, even if he's made a few mistakes, he means well.

Sure he's a murderer, in other words, but at least he's not a Republican!

Put another, even less charitable way: Democratic partisans – liberals – are willing to trade the lives of a couple thousand poor Pakistani tribesman in exchange for a few liberal catnip-filled speeches and NPR tote bags for the underprivileged. The number of party-line progressives who would vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama wouldn't be enough to fill Conference Room B at the local Sheraton, with even harshest left-leaning critics of the president, like Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, saying they'd prefer the mass-murdering sociopath to that kooky Constitution fetishist.

The Left is just as dominated by tribal allegiances as the Right and I have never been hesitant to point that out. Yet I constantly hear from Righties that I'm pursuing a dark "agenda" against the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism and somehow "supporting" Obama.

Clues for the clueless: the Biggest Deepest Secret about my super duper secret "agenda" is that there's no secret agenda. My agenda is plain and obvious. I won't support any candidate who asks me to support something gravely sinful or contrary to the Church's teaching. As far as I know, most of my readers are not terribly zealous about making the tribal excuses for Obama that the readers of Counterpunch are inclined to make, so it's not super urgent that I dissuade them. But lots of my readers are eager to overlook the absurdities of the Thing That Used to be Conservatism. So I try to point out to my tribe that this is bad too. Result: People vehemently suspect me of a Super Duper Secret Obama Love Agenda because I suggest that Birther Nuttery is a bad way to keep the guy out of the White House. In reality, I'd just like to see American political discourse return to the way it was before MSNBC and FOX trained an increasingly Paris Hilton People to bray about trivialities in an apocalyptic world.

That the Left is just as inclined to do this is evident from the crie de coeur above. Obama can launch mad and pointless wars in Libya and the tribalists in the Thing that Used to Be Liberalism will and have sold their souls for a pot of message on NPR and a chance to get an exclusive pass to the White House Press Corps Dinner and schmooze with the cast of "Glee". I have no more use for that than I do for conservatives making excuses for war crimes.

HT: Western Confucian