I take that meme the other direction btw. The American public was so thirsty for another way, when the candidate Barack Obama was elected. Even in the corporatist MSM, they were talking about the possibility of the center-right America idea going to the grave. Obama moved on the most tepid, middle of the road, corporatist stuff, when he had the opportunity to be a transformational president!
We know now that he has no vision, however. It all comes from spin doctors, and DLC/Third Wayer Democrats (Rahm, Daley, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner etc.). He’s not a rock the boat type of guy. He’s a go with the flow sort of politician — who flirts with rhetoric at times, as if he is going to pursue great possibility/change. He’s following nothing but an ordinary playbook, and pursuing nothing, but the commonplace/everyday politics (and not to mention foreign policy) of the worst kind.
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What he lives for, the game of winning and lying for the dreams of his corporate daddies, not in performing as a remotely responsible president to the people for whom he took an oath to protect.
Fool us once, blame him. Fool us after so much evidence of betrayal, though mightily media filtered, blame too too too many still lost in the bubble of delusion and shallow groupthink cronyism. libby
Conservative candidates continue to battle among themselves about who is the most conservative; who has been the true conservative for the longest time; and who will govern from the most conservative perspective—they proudly proclaim their conservatism. Liberal candidates don’t even mention the word—they shrink from it because it has become the kiss of death in our society!
Voters who call themselves staunch conservatives do anything and everything in their power to enable conservatives and ridicule liberals; their intent is to defeat liberals and liberalism.
Voters who call themselves staunch liberals do anything and everything in their power to find fault with anyone who is not insane…who is not willing to alienate him/herself from the vast majority of the American public and pursue policies that are inherently unattainable at this time. Voters who call themselves staunch liberals piss on opportunities to further progressive initiatives incrementally and pragmatically…and seem intent on helping their most vocal political enemies.
Liberals live in a world of fantasy…and do as much to tarnish the liberal/progressive brand as the most ideological conservatives.
I will happily vote for Barack Obama’s re-election…and live with what I see as the inevitable consequences of the shortsightedness of the liberal base. I suspect we will all find out if the brilliant liberal plan of abandoning Obama will lead to a better, fairer, more decent climate for America when this dazzling strategy results in someone of Newt Gingrich’s ilk gaining the Oval Office.