Hell must have frozen over - I agree with Ted Rall

Ted Rall is an editorialist and cartoonist and had a field-day with the Bush presidency (in a bad way). Imagine my surprise when I read this (from the Springfield Illinois State Journal Register)

Ted Rall: It�s increasingly evident that Obama should resign
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama�s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.

From health care to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn�t have the nerve to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?

Obama is useless. Worse than that, he�s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now � before he drags us further into the abyss.

Rall has spent so much time on the fringes of the far left that he has topologically wrapped around and is now inhabiting the fringes of the far right. The column is also at his website but he has no provision for permalinks so you would need to search for it by date: 05/28/2009