So some folks at the Daily Kos have been critical of Obama recently. Here someone writes to Andrew Sullivan to explain (last paragraph is the best):
My take is that Kos and folks like him in the netroots, including myself, are what the militant feminists were for the women's movement. We're sick and tired of Republicans in general, this administration in particular, and what passes for liberalism in this country that we've got nothing but contempt for the 'battered-wife', mainstream Vichy Democrats the beltway press, in our view, glorifies. Because Obama has seemingly criticized the partisanship we crave we thus see him as attempting to align himself as a battered-wife, Vichycrat against those who have done the most to organize resistance to this evil, evil administration sitting in Washington. This makes us angry because we see it as both disrespectful and counterproductive.
But, I support Obama despite this because I understand political reality and I love what he represents - a transition away from white baby-boomers bickering over the cultural changes of the 60s and 70s towards a politics that is truly representative of the multi-cultural, polyglot, open society that America is today.
So, while I wish Obama would stand up and rip out Dick Cheney's heart in front the soulless one's family and proceed to eat it raw on live television, I'll just mutter under my breath, hope for the best, and love him for who he is. He's got my vote even if isn't going to douse the Bush's with gasoline and light them on fire. That's the netroots job anyway.
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Heh. That pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama.
Jesse! I've been meaning to blame you for me having had the Cranberries song "Linger" stuck in my head for DAYS. It's all due to stupid VH1 Classic Best of the 90s. I never would have been reminded of that song otherwise.
Ha! Maybe I can swap out "Linger" for what's currently in my head -- the Spider-Man theme.
Maybe I can swap out "Linger" for what's currently in my head -- the Spider-Man theme.
hee - on the way home, baltimore's WTMD was playing 80s. Heartbreak Beat. Still in my head.
That station is so wonderfully random.
So, while I wish Obama would stand up and rip out Dick Cheney's heart in front the soulless one's family and proceed to eat it raw on live television...
You know that is not what I want. I think it is the centrists who hate Bush the most. For long time leftist, Bush and Cheney are just more extreme examples of what we've been fighting. But I can't love Obama for what he is when that includes lawyer bashing, and Union bashing and making nice with gay bashers, and all the other ways he goes after the extreme rights favorite scapegoats. Dude that isn't bipartisanship. That is strengthening the loony right ideologically.
I am, as always, with TB.
I've been happily avoiding most political talk. But I just found out that I can vote in the Democratic Primary here if I want, so all of sudden I feel I have to think about this well before I want to. Le sigh.
In the end, I'm just tired of the throngs of people after my vote. Obama & Crew has been relentless for the past 9 months, sending me things three times a week, calling, asking why I didn't watch the DVD that I was sent (my response: "I didn't realize there was homework."). Just ... leave me be, people! It probably makes me sound like some crazy anti-American or something, but I can't wait to eat my dinner in peace!
Wait a minute. How did they know you didn’t watch the DVD? Are they bugging your home, too? Sheesh, what you Iowans put up with ..
But I can't love Obama for what he is when that includes lawyer bashing, and Union bashing and making nice with gay bashers, and all the other ways he goes after the extreme rights favorite scapegoats. Dude that isn't bipartisanship. That is strengthening the loony right ideologically.
Yes, this. I’d like to vote for Obama – Favorite Son and all that – but I really dislike the bashing. I since he’s trying to pull in crossover votes, and I understand that, but still …
