The left has pulled out all the stops to smear anyone who disagrees with Barack Obama as racists. From Maureen Dowd, to most of the Congressional Black Caucus, to a failed president, to area thumb-suckers, it’s a settled fact that hatred of a black man is helping spur opposition to Obama.

But, as Frank Fleming suggests at Pajamas Media today, maybe they should look to a more obvious catalyst for the growing opposition, bait-and-switch by the president himself:

[M]any people were tired of the hostility between conservatives and liberals (though I’m not sure why Republicans got the blame, since we could have had bipartisanship if at any time liberals had decided to stop being a bunch of screeching ninnies who mindlessly opposed whatever Bush was for). Then came along Barack Obama, who promised non-specific hope and change, and everyone was like, “Non-specific hope and change sounds like a great idea!”

But now we can see the problem. After Barack Obama was elected, he started doing specific things. Liberal things. No one voted for that, so Obama’s approval ratings have dropped faster than those of any president before him. And you can see why liberals are so frustrated. They had a charismatic liberal overwhelmingly elected with Democratic majorities, and even he is utterly failing to sell liberalism to the American people.