A List Of Things President Obama Has Thrown "Under the Bus"

by The Awl June 14, 2011

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.