A List Of Things President Obama Has Thrown "Under the Bus"
by Nate Hopper
• Israel, according to Mitt Romney
• Palestine, according to Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest
• Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to Rev. Jeremiah Wright
• Christianity, according to Tara Wall, deputy editor at The Washington Times
• Hosni Mubarak, according to Foreign Policy’s Shadow Blog, pretty much any FOX guest
• America, according to Michelle Malkin and Sophie B. Hawkins
• Chris Rock, according to Joshua Keating at Foreign Policy’s Passport blog*
• Democrats, according to Chris Stirewalt at FOX News
• Tax evaders, according to Foreign Policy’s Shadow Blog
• Fixed exchange rates, according to Daniel Drezner at Foreign Policy
• Contraception, according to Michelle Malkin
• Our allies in and around Eastern Europe, according to a writer at The American Thinker
• No one, according to at Samuel Charap at Foreign Policy
• His “fiscal commissioners,” according to Stephen Stromberg at The Washington Post
• His grandmother, according to Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer and and others
• Arizona, according to Greg Gutfeld at FOX
• Joe Biden, according to an editor at The Daily Telegraph
• 2010 lame duck Congress, according to a cartoonist for The Akron Beacon-Journal
• Shirley Sherrod, according to a cartoonist for The State Journal-Register
• Gov. David Paterson, according to Dan Collins at The Huffington Post
• His entire church, according to Michelle Malkin
• Prof. Henry Louis Gates, according to Rush Limbaugh
• Rosa Parks, according to Pat Buchanan
• The financial sector, according to Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit, speaking on Charlie Rose
• The LGBT community, according to historian Timothy McCarthy in The New York Times
• His family, according to Politico’s Roger Simon
* Edited to add: Actually, nope, not Chris Rock. Keating was only using that as a mock example in his argument.
Nate Hopper is a summer Awl reporter.
Photo by David Boyle.