Libya lights up presidential detractors from all sides. And your point is?

The Yahoo headline says it all: “Obama taking heat from all sides for Libya action.”

Writer Jim O’Sullivan explains in his National Journal piece, the article for which the Yahoo headline trumpets, that President Obama is taking a bipartisan bitching over his decision to take part in the UN action aimed at keeping strongman Mummar Quadaffi from slaughtering innocent civilians.

Such news is hardly a revelation. While Obama did seem to waffle a bit at first on the possibility of military action he has delivered a plan to go in and hopefully get out while perhaps saving thousands of Libyan lives. Why? Because Quadaffi is about three-quarters a bubble off  the level and whether he does major damage to his own people and to the oil fields of Libya are — like it or not — in the national interest of the U.S. Yes, Oil.

Getting Obama to admit that oil is a big factor in his decision will not likely happen. Just as such admissions weren’t forthcoming from the Presidents Bush in first Iraq and then, uh, Iraq.

The big difference between Obama and, at least the latter Bush, is that Obama doesn’t have near the propaganda machine the Republicans had in the run up and early stages of the Iraq War. Why the GOP would inspire the populace to draw and quarter anyone who made ill remarks  against the president while he was out of the country and we were at war (such as Obama was this weekend in Brazil), if Bush was in office. All of this thanks to the mouthing of Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter, Malking, O’Reilly, Hannity, and Fox News in general, ad nauseam (really ad nauseam). Remember the Dixie Chicks? They were blacklisted just because Natalie Maines was brave enough to say what thousands of other Texans said everyday, that they were ashamed George “Gee Dubya” Bush was a Texan.

A journalistic axiom is that if you piss off enough people on either side of an issue then you must certainly be doing your job. Well, on one side Obama has Dennis Kucinich going off like a little pop pistol and Sen. Richard Lugar on the other side is all ablaze — as much as the lethargic  Republican can be lit up  — over the president’s apparent use of the War Powers Act. So far, Obama has seemed to satisfy the law.

It, of course, it goes without saying that the opposition to the president will not ever, ever, lavish the “Black Man in the White House” with praise. Everything Obama does and says is wrong, according to the opposition. His wife wants to tell us what to eat. His children are  terrorist babies. His dog bites rich white guys.

So to sum up the “news” that Obama is being castigated from all sides, does the phrase “No s**t, Sherlock” ring a bell?