Obama mocks the "left" - gets Beltway kudos

Even for bloggers who don't have "access," maybe it's about "glow," the glow of acceptance from a thin-skinned president who continues to put the lie to claims that he wants the left to push him.

Obama Friday mocked the left while sucking up to the rich in Greenwich, Conn., many of whom he protected from real financial regulation with his pseudo-reform bill:

Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get -- to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an historic health care bill passed -- oh, well, the public option wasn't there. If you get the financial reform bill passed -- then, well, I don't know about this particular derivatives rule, I'm not sure that I'm satisfied with that. And gosh, we haven't yet brought about world peace and -- (laughter.) I thought that was going to happen quicker. (Laughter.) You know who you are. (Laughter.) We have had the most productive, progressive legislative session in at least a generation.

Let me see. This is the health bill you made less historic by refusing to offer any support to a public option. The derivatives rule? As we all know, Blanche Lincoln supported it to win a primary election in Arkansas, then, away it went again. Most productive legislative session in at least a generation? Praising with faint damns, or the soft bigotry of low expectations. You want to be compared to the last Clinton Administration Congress, which was "productive" in passing all the financial dereg that contributed to the crash and that your "productiveness" refused to overturn?

And, you're not as skilled a liar as Clinton, either.