When Democrats Go Post-al Indeed
Oh my how I do love to read of tantrums on the left! James Wolcott tells you of the Kossacks dividing over Hillary and Barack, while Matt just realized that he has been marginalized by the very people he helped to put in power.
And then there are the number of people who take issue with a basic request for competence at the Obama campaign with regards to communications. People apparently don’t want Obama sending out talking points or talking to bloggers, preferring that bloggers stay independent. Well excuse me, why do you think Obama surrogates suck on TV? They aren’t getting fucking talking points, you idiots. How do you think this works?
While we’re on Obama, consider the ridiculous defenses of Obama going on Fox News and lying about his intent to ‘take them on’, to which I could refer you to Chris’s post once again. The straw men arguments were just disgusting and out in force.
Finally, we get to the unbelievably vicious attacks on Women’s Voices Women’s Vote. Why pretend like they operate in bad faith? This is a progressive organization that registers voters, something very few of us know anything about doing on a large scale level because there just isn’t very much of it happening. WVWV does it systematically, they do it aggressively, and they did it when no one else would, in 2004 or 2006. Do you think it’s glamorous to register voters or something? Do you think lots of people come up to you and say ‘great job registering millions of voters in 2004′, or nice job on that voter registration campaign in Ohio, you really empowered a lot of poor women? Do you think you get 15% of a multi-million dollar TV budget to register voters? Of course not. It’s hard, difficult, boring fucking work that no other progressive group would do. But of course it’s easy to go after these people and pretend like there’s some nefarious Clinton-spawned plot when several of the board members, including Mike Lux who has posted here for months, are well-known Obama supporters, and the organization relies on academics and data-driven methods.
If I sound frustrated, it’s because I am. The extent to which the progressive movement that came into existence over the past few years has prostituted itself for people who look good on TV while lying to us and stabbed our friends sickens me. It’s just sick. You don’t seem to understand how much contempt people in these Presidential campaigns have for you, how low we rank because we demand nothing of them. You know when Moveon was censured, they were censuring all of us, and they meant it. I’ve seen Senators turn away nastily from Moveon staffers after learning they were from Moveon.
May 1, 2008 - 10:12 AM on May 1st, 2008
“If I sound frustrated, it’s because I am. The extent to which the progressive movement that came into existence over the past few years has prostituted itself for people who look good on TV while lying to us and stabbed our friends sickens me.”
You see, THAT’s one of the reasons we call them Democrites! The Democrite leadership has NO loyalty to ANYONE, as even you thick-skulled cretins are now finally starting to figure out.
After all, any party leadership that will sell out and turn on it’s own Country will have even less qualms about backstabbing their temporary (useful idiot) friends…
May 1, 2008 - 10:20 AM on May 1st, 2008
“You see, THAT’s one of the reasons we call them Democrites! The Democrite leadership has NO loyalty to ANYONE, as even you thick-skulled cretins are now finally starting to figure out.
After all, any party leadership that will sell out and turn on it’s own Country will have even less qualms about backstabbing their temporary (useful idiot) friends:”
Sounds like an accurate description of the Reopublican party also.
May 1, 2008 - 10:41 AM on May 1st, 2008
Robert, that was one of his better meltdowns! Oh it does look like the chickens came home to roost