And So The Madness Begins
Jan 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm by Susie
Jill from Brilliant at Breakfast:
I’m still not sold on Obama being tough enough to fight effectively back if he’s the nominee and the Republicans start painting him as a Muslim spy who’s also a cocaine addict. I still think he’s frighteningly naïve about the reality of today’s Republican Party, whose goal is not just to crush the opposition, but crush it, mangle its corpse, then have sex with it, then cook it and eat it with fava beans and a nice chianti for dinner. I still think that he vastly overestimates the feasibility of consensus with greedy corporate executives who are loath to see their taxpayer-funded gravy train derailed. And I’m troubled by his use of right-wing framing on issues from Social Security to trial lawyers. There is a kind of incipient Joe Liebermanism in him that troubles me.
I’ve heard some Obama supporters say that I needn’t worry, that this is just how he sheathes the sword before applying the death blow, and I suppose we can always hope. But while hope may be enough for young voters who haven’t lived through the assassination of their generations’ heroes (and I hope they never have to) and watching their hopes of what America can be dashed time and time again; you can’t blame the rest of us for saying “I’m from New Jersey….show me.”
However, I AM willing to be shown.
like i say at my website, “hope is what allows you to put off until tomorrow what must be done today.”
Abandon hope, and embrace ACTION.
I thought the slogan was, “I’m from New Jersey, shoot me.”
(Actually, it’s “I’m from Missouri, show me.”)