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"Electing Barack Obama is a very important political priority but it isn't the only one there is, and his election is less likely, not more likely, the more homage he pays to these these tired, status-quo-perpetuating Beltway pieties."
I was a Hillary supporter who was perfectly content to go to the polls and vote for Obama. Until the past two weeks, that is.
For exactly the same reasons enumerated here, my current plan is to go to the polls, vote for local and state offices, and just leave the box for President blank.
As Greenwald has stated before, when "Democrats" move too far to the "center" (or past it to the right), it makes absolutely no difference who is in office. I have been arguing against this attitude in others for 20 years, but I believe we have finally come to the point where it's true.
