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Why progressives should keep organizing on MyBarackObama.com

Some Obama supporters say we should disband our FISA group now that the vote is past. I disagree. If progressives are silent, the campaign will take us for granted.

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 08:28 PM

    Creepy similarities

    I'm kind of freaked out, because I just realized what a lot of Obama supporters are sounding like lately: battered wives who are desperately making excuses for their husbands.

    He had to do it.

    You just don't understand him.

    He had a good reason...

    You worry too much.

    I don't have anywhere else to go!

    Things will get better...

    You never liked him!

    Remember how great he was before (we got married/he clinched the nomination)? Things will be like that again...really.

    But he's really a good person.

    It was just a little (slap in the face/amendment to the Constitution). You're making too much of this.

    He said he'd make it up to me later.

    We need him.

    I'm afraid of what will happen if I leave.

    This is just how (marriage/a political campaign) is. Everybody does it. You have to live in the real world.

    He said I wasn't listening to him.

    He needs us!

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