Kucinich Hits Back At Gibbs: You've Read Liberals Wrong

Dennis Kucinich and Move-on.org and most others don't belong in that group, but IMHO Firedoglake and David Sirota do.

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That's not who Gibbs' meant by "professional left".



The interview with Youngman (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/113431-white-house-unloads-on-professional-left), Gibbs takes a blunt view of the administration’s critics from the left:



==“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”



The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”



Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”==



In remarks later made to Huf fington Post’s Sam Stein (http://www.huf fingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/robert-gibbs-clarifies-pr_n_676934.html), Gibbs later qualified the remarks as “inartful” and Gibbs's Deputy Secretary Bill Burton clarified that Gibbs defined the “professional left,” as cable TV commentators [*cough*MSNBC*cough*].
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