The Reality
Thursday, February 14, 2008
An Endorsement
For a while I was Director of Social Networking for the John Edwards for President campaign. When the time came for me to vote in the New York State primary, John had dropped out of the race. Here is a good overview of the reasons why I voted for Barack Obama from my friend and legal counsel:
There are other reasons that get pretty wonky and insiderish... a hint as to the nature of some of them can be seen on my facebook profile:
While the reference is probably funny to a handful of people, the point is that I would very much like to not go back to the 90s. I want to go forward.
This political movement that I work in has its roots in a bed of deep resentment that took hold of millions of Americans in the 90s. Epitomized by MoveOn.org, a pro-censure petition email list that was equally mad at Clinton for being stupid, as it was mad at the media for being willingly played as suckers, as it was mad at the Republicans for being anti-modernity scumbags who were 1) playing with the fate of the nation and 2) toying with the media and 3) punishing Democrats for existing. This is where I come from, politically.
I don't want to go back there. We had those fights before and we lost them all.
UPDATE: Some friends have pointed out that I end rather abruptly. Okay. The above is not to say that President Obama will not be attacked in the same gutless manner by the same shit eating criminals who exist solely to impede progress (conserve the past = conservatives) and attack Democrats - no matter who they are. Duh, yes, Obama will be attacked. And then after his attempts to defuse the tension with calls for cooperation fail, which they will, because it's stupid. The tactic is utterly ridiculous... he will be faced with a choice, next time they attack, either defuse the tension with capitulation or fight back. If he capitulates in order to defuse tension then he'll be a lame duck for the next 4 years of his one term Presidency. If he fights back, the political dynamic has the potential to be different in substance and style than the Clintonian DLC method -- which sucked and failed.
What about McCain, you ask? Why did I not even consider McCain? The only difference between Bush and McCain is that Bush wants to be in Iraq for 50 years while McCain said that he would be comfortable having the Iraq war last for ONE HUNDRED YEARS. Economic policy = same. Supreme Court = same. Domestic policy = same. Foreign policy = worse. McCain is fucking terrible.
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There are other reasons that get pretty wonky and insiderish... a hint as to the nature of some of them can be seen on my facebook profile:
While the reference is probably funny to a handful of people, the point is that I would very much like to not go back to the 90s. I want to go forward.
This political movement that I work in has its roots in a bed of deep resentment that took hold of millions of Americans in the 90s. Epitomized by MoveOn.org, a pro-censure petition email list that was equally mad at Clinton for being stupid, as it was mad at the media for being willingly played as suckers, as it was mad at the Republicans for being anti-modernity scumbags who were 1) playing with the fate of the nation and 2) toying with the media and 3) punishing Democrats for existing. This is where I come from, politically.
I don't want to go back there. We had those fights before and we lost them all.
UPDATE: Some friends have pointed out that I end rather abruptly. Okay. The above is not to say that President Obama will not be attacked in the same gutless manner by the same shit eating criminals who exist solely to impede progress (conserve the past = conservatives) and attack Democrats - no matter who they are. Duh, yes, Obama will be attacked. And then after his attempts to defuse the tension with calls for cooperation fail, which they will, because it's stupid. The tactic is utterly ridiculous... he will be faced with a choice, next time they attack, either defuse the tension with capitulation or fight back. If he capitulates in order to defuse tension then he'll be a lame duck for the next 4 years of his one term Presidency. If he fights back, the political dynamic has the potential to be different in substance and style than the Clintonian DLC method -- which sucked and failed.
What about McCain, you ask? Why did I not even consider McCain? The only difference between Bush and McCain is that Bush wants to be in Iraq for 50 years while McCain said that he would be comfortable having the Iraq war last for ONE HUNDRED YEARS. Economic policy = same. Supreme Court = same. Domestic policy = same. Foreign policy = worse. McCain is fucking terrible.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
We're Being Played
The pearl clutching on the teevee from Conservatives about how they can't support McCain is a smokescreen.
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So we are left with an image of McCain as a moderate rather than the true image–the one where he is literally the spitting image of Bush in almost every way. |
