Presto Change-o
Feb 20th, 2008 at 11:08 pm by Susie
The thing I hated most about working on the campaign last year was that no matter what I said in my official capacity, I was accused of being a “hack” and a “shill.” No matter how honest I was, no matter how hard I worked to maintain my personal integrity, it didn’t matter. I was pigeonholed in that category and couldn’t get out.
Seems like old times. According to one long-time reader commenting on another blog, I’m now “a dishonest, desperate shill.” Nice!
If I read it on the internets, it must be true.
Well Suzie I like to say that if you want to be a big shot, you have to take the big shots. Obama wants to be the biggest big shot, and with that some criticism has to come his way on this site and in other venues.
Part of what makes the Obama campaign troubling is that they are attacking potential allies–i.e., other Democratic voters–as much as, or more than, the opposition. A lot of the Edwards and Clinton supporters have been hounded off of the Big Orange website. The fact is that their candidate has many faults and weaknesses, not least of which is the fact that he has not established real progressive bona fides, and his choices in counselors on affairs foreign and domestic, do not bode well. In fact, much of the Broderian “reaching across the aisle” looks to this observer like something he’d be doing from the pro-business, anti-tax, anti-regulation side of the aisle. If he becomes president, he will have a Clintonesque aura, but he has not demonstrated that he will be as able an administrator as Bill Clinton in a day-to-day nuts-and-bolts aspect. And he will inherit huge economic problems that he will really have no power to change, and in this environment, he will end up disappointing and alienating more than just Hillary Clinton voters.
As an Edwards voter, I’m getting to the point where I’m not even going to hold my nose to vote for Obama.
Susie,
fwiw, if I read that comment right, I think he was referring to the author of the article, not you. But I could be wrong.
fwiw II, I tend to agree with your scepticism of Obama. Then again, I’m no longer a democrat and have fallen away from getting too caught up in the garbage they all, generally, pedal.
Yeah, he was referring to Glen Ford who, unless I’m very confused, isn’t you at all.
Part of what makes the Obama campaign troubling is that they are attacking potential allies–i.e., other Democratic voters–as much as, or more than, the opposition
isn’t that true with clinton as well? i mean, most of the arguments i see here are susie attacking obama and me and a couple of other people trying to fend off the attack. and it’s not like i don’t have serious reservations about obama, it’s just that the clinton-leaning bloggers in the blogosphere seem to be throwing a lot of shit at him.
that’s not to say that there isn’t a lot of shit throwing going from obama’s camp to clinton’s as well. i’m just saying i don’t think you can plausibly claim that the obamaniacs are the only ones attacking potential allies. and unfortunately, it won’t get better until the primary campaign is finally over.
Given the adulation being heaped on the guy. The 27%’ers will soon be portraying him as the anti-christ.
Wait . . . then they would be flocking to his banner, ’cause the end times are a-comin’.
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