Change we can believe in:
Obama will obviously screw every single person and constituency that has ever supported him, that supports him now or that will ever support him — and he will do so in an especially blatant, in-your-face manner — if he believes it will be to his political advantage. And he knows they’ll continue to support him anyway: “So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican!” Still worse: I have no doubt at all that he sincerely believes all the religious crap he’s peddling. If that doesn’t worry you, especially after the Bush years of God and Glory America, I doubt that anything will make you question The Faith According to Barack.Without forgetting my much more serious concerns, I think there might be a lot of entertainment to be found in this campaign. Who’s Obama going to screw next, and just how badly will he humiliate them? Maybe a new slogan, to replace the already exhausted hopey, changey thing: “Barack will fuck you over — and he’ll make you LOVE it!”
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Tepid
We do it to ourselves when we already tell Obama we’re going to support him, even if we do so tepidly.
Again, one should account for the fact that...
… when you’re running against John Fucking McCain after 8 years of us being raped by the Republicans (really many more, if you include the time before and during Ken Starr), he does have some leverage here.
He’s made it clear that he’s going to keep not just yanking the football away, he’s going to kick us in the teeth when we’re down, so, yeah, tepid is a few degrees too hot.
How many of us, like yours truly, will lose that tepid feeling, I don’t know. But given the extreme unlikelihood of the DNC doing the right thing, we’re not exactly sitting on a pile of good options.
Negotiating
My point was that it was silly to expect Obama and the Party to address any of our concerns if we went in like we were good little bipartisans right off the bat. The only way to influence Obama was to make him hurt where it counts, with our votes, and we lost our bargaining power with our pronouncements of our tepidity. That emboldened Obama and co.
I have to say, the anger at what happened in the primary is spread further and deeper than little enclaves on the tubes. This could have been bargaining power, but we pissed it all away.
I don't agree that any power has been pissed away
Not any power that we had to begin with.
Some of us have been making the case for a long time — two years or more — while insiders in the media, the DNC, and the A-list treated us as pariahs.
Our willingness to try our best to justify support for Obama I think speaks to our party loyalty and clear-eyed understanding of who McCain really is.
That I earnestly tried and couldn’t sustain it, I hope, might convince some that the fault is in our candidate and not in our obstinacy.
Now that Obama’s entirely predictable (and predicted) full-on embrace of rightwing madness has had an unpredictable result — unrest among formerly glazy-eyed supporters — there may or may not (probably not, because I just don’t see superdelegates losing face or facing the music against the also predictable charges of racism) be an opportunity to change something.
What do you think was lost, when and how?
It all comes back to the question, who's agenda is this anyway?
Didn’t we all vote in the last election? And didn’t we have a candidate that we all agreed was relatively acceptable? I mean John Kerry wasn’t my first choice [I’m a Clarkie] but I certainly sucked it up and stood behind John. So where the hell did all this crap come from? Is this the psychotic wet dream of Howard Dean???!!!
It’s almost like certain DNC folks had this behind-the-scenes agenda cooking for a while and were just waiting for this election to foist a chameleon in democratic clothing to take the WH. It feels like I’m watching a slow motion car wreck except it’s really funny now.
I love this job!
And Dean ran as the candidate...
from the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party! Looks more like the Autocratic Wing of the Autocratic Party to me.
but he wasn't the DC Dems' choice--Kerry was--
just as Hillary wasn’t their choice— Obama was. Just as Brown, Hart, Jackson, etc, weren’t their chosen ones either.
Kerry — and all previous Dem nominees — at least had resumes and track records and experience — that’s the biggest difference, and why it was possible to hold our noses and vote for all of them in the past.
the DC Dems always get their choice in the end, but usually their choices aren’t so lacking and so far right— Clinton was the furthest to the right before Obama, i believe, unless you go back to Humphrey and those days, when they didn’t even bother having primaries in all states.
people aren't supporting him tho--
neither all Dems, nor the right wing ones he’s on his knees pandering to. —
Some Clinton supporters still not embracing Obama—”… In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama. In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.
In early June, 22 percent of Clinton supporters polled said they would not vote at all if Obama were the party’s nominee, now close to a third say they will stay home. …” (those are mostly all loyal and regular past voters btw, not first-time or non-voters previously)
Christian Conservatives Uniting Behind McCain — “… about 100 conservative Christian leaders from around the country agreed to unite behind the candidacy of John McCain, a politician they have long distrusted, marking the latest in a string of movements that bode well for McCain’s general election prospects among the Republican base. …”
vast, do you think they or Obama
have any reason to start listening now at all?
Democratic voters haven’t united behind Obama, but DC has already handed the DNC over to him lock stock and barrel (something which had to be planned beforehand, i think).
I think the money he brings in is what matters most to them—and maintaining the status quo, and their own positions/power. I think it’s not about winning the WH primarily.
I got a call from the Obama people today
A woman robotically mumbled out a script about George Bush and change and then asked me if I wanted to donate $100 to the Obama campaign.
Simple answers to simple questions: I said no.
Mumble, mumble, $50?
No.
She thanked me for my time and hung up.
I hope a lot of their calls go like that.
I was hoping she’d spend a little time trying to convince me, though. That would have been fun.
I guess I’m pretty hopeful all around!
GOP lobbyists are getting solicited too,
apparently- “…The Republican lobbyist who was solicited for contributions by Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign a month ago has received a second request for money from the Democratic presidential candidate, who has banned lobbyist money from supporting his candidacy. The second try was made after no response to the first attempt. As did the first solicitation, the second letter signed by Obama asked the veteran Republican donor and fundraiser for a contribution “to change the way business is done in Washington.” …” — http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article…
"Change" to Induce Vomiting So Extreme It Might Just Kill You
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/200…
<<—- another “new slogan” by Arthur Silber that might have possibilities as well…
(don’t you just love Arthur… i do. ;-)
don’t miss his new one, btw:
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/200…
“And some people call it “change.” I call it unadulterated bullshit and nauseating lies — and I also call it criminal war, unforgivable murder, and the promise of only further devastation, chaos and suffering.”
Now with 2% less evil
Yep, Madeleine Albright, Bill Perry, the usual suspects… I guess I’d pick Kosovo over Iraq any day, if we had to stay in the business of imperial warmongering.
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.