Okay, I read all of the articles. Made me realize that I've kept myself from the other side. But I've gotten to the point where what I'm really looking forward to is the end of the primary wars. John McCain is getting a free ride from both candidates because they're too focused on each other. The media isn't going to do anything about it, so the sooner the dems can unite behind the winner, the better.
So basically, the argument is that he isn't a progressive and he isn't a fighter, so he's either going to lose horribly to John McCain. Or, he's going to get into office and compromise what little glimmers of progressive policy he has.
We can turn this around. I think Hillary Clinton playing best friends with John McCain these days is unbelievably stupid. I think the Mark Penn connection and his ties to John McCain are troubling. I think her positives vs. Obama don't help her at all with John McCain?
Experience? She loses to the guy who's been in there for almost as long as I've been alive. A Real American? She loses to John "Hanoi Hilton" McCain?
So not only does her best argument (experience) get totally canceled out in the general, the American public is going to get exposed to "the GOP presents Billary: Greatest Hits" the entire GE season. All the scandals will come back, and new ones will pop up because everyone knows Sen. Clinton and her husband have been busy. 109m attests to that.
Even worse, I think that she will do nothing for down ticket races while Obama can actually win us some. If we have a filibuster proof congress, we won't have to worry about the fear of Obama compromising w/ the Republicans because the dems won't have to.
Also, the candidates who are backing Obama or being endorsed by him in these races are pretty progressive, even if we'll concede that Obama isn't Kucinich.
With Clinton, there's a pretty good chance we'll see the return of the triangulation days that got us DOMA and the deregulation of the FCC.
So to sum up, Obama doesn't pass the purity test. Neither does Clinton, neither did Edwards. Maybe Kucinich. Nader definitely. I don't think he's a republican in democratic clothing though.
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So basically, the argument is that he isn't a progressive and he isn't a fighter, so he's either going to lose horribly to John McCain. Or, he's going to get into office and compromise what little glimmers of progressive policy he has.
We can turn this around. I think Hillary Clinton playing best friends with John McCain these days is unbelievably stupid. I think the Mark Penn connection and his ties to John McCain are troubling. I think her positives vs. Obama don't help her at all with John McCain?
Experience? She loses to the guy who's been in there for almost as long as I've been alive.
A Real American? She loses to John "Hanoi Hilton" McCain?
So not only does her best argument (experience) get totally canceled out in the general, the American public is going to get exposed to "the GOP presents Billary: Greatest Hits" the entire GE season. All the scandals will come back, and new ones will pop up because everyone knows Sen. Clinton and her husband have been busy. 109m attests to that.
Even worse, I think that she will do nothing for down ticket races while Obama can actually win us some. If we have a filibuster proof congress, we won't have to worry about the fear of Obama compromising w/ the Republicans because the dems won't have to.
Also, the candidates who are backing Obama or being endorsed by him in these races are pretty progressive, even if we'll concede that Obama isn't Kucinich.
With Clinton, there's a pretty good chance we'll see the return of the triangulation days that got us DOMA and the deregulation of the FCC.
So to sum up, Obama doesn't pass the purity test. Neither does Clinton, neither did Edwards. Maybe Kucinich. Nader definitely. I don't think he's a republican in democratic clothing though.