===== Who calls him a traitor to the left. Before you can be a traitor to something you have to beolong to it. A Japanese citizen cannot be a traitor to France.
^^^^ CB: Exactly. Though Obama clearly ran as a centrist, not a leftist, there are many criticisms of him by leftists dishonestly claiming that he is breaking campaign promises and is a traitor to the left.
He has a left background in his youth such that he knows the left ideology from the inside. This came out when his Press Secretary took the time to respond to left criticism and coined "professional left". There really is no President in recent US history who would even acknowledge the existence of a coherent "professional left" or show the respect of responding to its criticism.
Also, more importantly, we are finding out that it doesn't matter that he is running and governing as a centrist, not leftist. The right-wing considers him inherently left because he's Black. The integral intertwining of race and class, Black and Red, is so deep in US culture and history that Obama _must_ be a "socialist" in the minds of 10's of millions of Americans on the right, many average Merican racists. Black=Red, no matter how "moderately" a Black official conducts herself.
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Of course he's no traitor. He is a president of the u.s., i.e. a war criminal and a a devoted servant of international capitalism.
^^^^^^^ CB: No he's not a sufficiently devoted servant of international capitalism. That's why the right-wing is going nuts to try to get him out, the most savage generals are talking about him as weak , etc, your ultra-left rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding.