NEW YORK POST ENDORSES SEN. BARACK OBAMA – KISS OF DEATH?
RickyD from Brooklyn, who is fast becoming our regular pro-Senator Clinton advocate takes issue with just what the Murdoch endorsement might mean. He also seems to compare her to the notorious Madame LaFarge from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities which, candidly, is not likely to boost her favorables. We welcome more comment arguing the case for Senator Obama but honestly we don’t need more letters about “hope” (I’m a bit with RickyD on that score) Give us a more substantial case and we will be happy to print it.
Why do Republicans want Obama to win?
Because they know Sen. McCain will wipe the floor with him in a general election.
Stopping Hillary is the first goal. Weakening her right now is the objective, so that even when she wins the nomination, they can rehash the media-created race wars and keep the Democratic party divided so all those millions of Sen Obama supporters decide to stay home on Election Day.
This strategy is SOOOOOO obvious it’s astonishing how many supporters of Sen. Obama are falling into the trap. (As the right wing knows, their enthusiaism for the “idealistic” Sen. Obama encourages them to collude with these story lines in an effort to boost Sen Obama’s numbers.)
Frankly, the claim to a “transcendent” politics is rubbish, a self-satisfying myth used to dress up Politics in the garb of idealism. It’s an ego-trip. (Do the old Eugene “holier than thou” McCarthyites of yore ring a bell to anyone?)
I don’t want to sit down and make nice with these SOBs who have gummed up our government. I want them shown the door because they have demonstrated time and again that they have no interest in compromise. As such, they have no real interest in fufilling their constitutional obligations to their constituents. They represent a very narrow set of corporatist ambitions and apply that rule of thumb to everything they touch.
Need it be pointed out what everything they touch turns into?
Frankly, I would vote for Madame LaFarge this year if I could.
But in the meantime that “cold”, “calculating” “BITCH” Sen. Hillary Clinton will have to do.
Is Senator Clinton somewhere in that crowd….knitting?
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January 31st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
RickyD seems to be overconfident in stating that Republicans want Obama to win because they view him as a less viable candidate. The phenomenon of centrist and conservative publications, pundits and politicians coming out in favor of Obama, when they support any Democratic candidate at all, is exactly the reason that he is more viable.
The argument of a more “transcendent” political nature is more about his lack of national experience than anything else, and it is in this respect that Obama is served by it. He hasn’t yet had time to build the enemies that Clinton has. While Clinton supporters keep pushing her experience, they forget that the vicious fights of the Bush-Clinton years are exactly what many voters are trying to move past, especially those of us who came of age in the post-Cold War atmosphere, where our greatest political enemies are domestic, not foreign. Clinton is entrenched in a past that will hold her in a mire of political fights decades old, while Obama is free to tackle issues in the present.
I fear that too many Democrats are more interested in fighting Republicans instead of learning from one another. Democrats who are looking for revenge against this administration seem to exclusively back Clinton, as if getting a Clinton back in office will either erase the last seven years or just be payback in itself to those who voted for Bush. That is not to say that all of her followers are like that, just that they comprise a large portion of her core support.
There is a reason that Obama is so far ahead in the under 25 demographic, and it is that those of us in this category do not feel the same contempt for the other side that so many on both sides of the aisle try to foster.
RickyD, Hillary may “have to do” for you, but those of us who are not willing to settle finally have a candidate worthy of our support.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Hi Michael H
Well, its true I am most certainly NOT in the under 25 demographic (Not even the under 50) so it is perhaps true that my view of the REPUBLICANS is very, very jaded.
From Nixon to this very day the party has been increasingly ruled by people who are NOT interested in reaching across the aisle - no matter how much they pretend (And they pretend all the time — remember “Bush as the Uniter, not a Divider”?) they are at war - not with AQ but with the “Demcorat”
party?
If you think the Republicans are going to play nice, or that their viciousness against Hillary Clinton is unique to Hillary Clinton, then, I fear, you are living in a fool’s paradise.
(Remember Sen. John Kerry? (do you remember the 7 word critique of Kerry that the GOP loved: “A Catholic Jew in love with Islam”) Sen. Max Cleland?)
I see no evidence that the Republicans will not destroy Sen. Obama (That Kennedy endorsement will be played to death!)
You may buy this baloney that we’re in some new age - well, maybe you all are but guess what? - a large swath of the American people aren’t even living in THIS age.
That New York Post endorsement? Just wait - first time Sen. Obama gets a political hit at Sen McCain - the headline will read: “McCain Mugged by Obama” - and when you cry “that’s race-baiting” the Post will say “It’s just politics - get over it”.
If you want to see the Republican talking points that are already being honed in time to eviscerate Obama just read this article in the Jerusalem Post.
Obama supporters keep saying that they don’t want to fight yesterday’s wars - I say the “wars” for equality, for opportunity, for justice - they haven’t been won yet.
Justice is not the same thing as “revenge”; accountability is not the same thing as “revenge”.
I see the Republican party as the last refugee of the bigot, the war monger, the gangster. If I hold them in “contempt” it was a lesson learned over many DECADES of watching their mendacity, their imperiousness and their utter disregard for both the spirit and the letter of our constitution.
If you honestly think Republicans are actually ready or willing to work with Sen Obama to advance his “socialist” agenda (and you know that’s what they’re going to call it) I’m afraid you might be in for a big surprise.
Having said all that, rest assured that if Sen Obama wins, I will be supporting him with all my heart.
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