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Chrylser and GM have shut down, oil prices are collapsing, the traditional media is imploding all around us, and Mike and Joan can only talk about preacher at an inauguration? Us folks on the left have become as nuts as the ones I've railed against on the right.
Obama said over and over and over and over and over (ad nauseam) that he wanted to reach out to people from all over the sociological and political spectrum. And this is what he is doing. Not a bad thing at an inauguration, which is flash and not substance.
But the left is increasingly becoming a single-issue group. We got a black man into the White House, so it's all about payback for Prop 8. I haven't seen this much carp since I was down at the docks by the fish markets. You want to fix it? Then we talk to the damned voters in a way that appeals to them, not the endless clusterfuck that we put together for our cause. We can be pissed at the religious groups that won, but they had their shit together. We didn't.
Obama has also made other choices, such as Stephen Chu to head energy policy, possibly the most important selection he can make right now, and possibly the most brilliant one in the history of that position.
I'm still plenty happy with this guy. When he promotes Warren to head a new Faith-based science position, let me know and I'll be the first shaking my fists on Pennsylvania Avenue. Until then, this is a tempest in a teapot. Because guess what, liberal left? Not everyone in the good ol' US of A agrees with us. And unless we do a better job of advancing our cause, it'll continue to be this way. Stop blaming everyone else and look in the mirror. Sucks, doesn't it?
