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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
...but still misses the boat.
I know a good number of pro-Obama people who are spewing anti-Clinton venom. And many of these are older voters who left the party in 1980 to vote for Reagan and then left the party yet again in 1996-2000.
I attended my Caucus in Maine yesterday and was ASTOUNDED when my next-door neighbor, a gentleman who went to see JFK speak in Lewiston, Maine 47 years ago, showed up with an "Obama" sticker. He hasn't even pretended to support Democrats in years, and thinks that the Democratic establishment in Maine is corrupt and should be thrown out. Any my own father is the exact same story.
We talk about issues and policies, and experience, but for a lot of people coming on board this year, they are interested in personal integrity. They see in Obama an underlying philosophy of coming together for common good, compromising when necessary, and not always having all of the answers and therefore asking for it from others. This is what used to happen, before the culture wars that began with Goldwater in 1964.
Clinton, god bless her, she tries harder than anyone out there, but she is a self-focused Baby Boomer first and foremost. She can't help it. It's her nature. She will continue to be brittle and inflexible. Her campaign has long reflected this, and if somehow she got into the White House I see four years of Republican filibusters, partisan sniping, and generally the 1990's all over again.
I can't support that, and if the DNC cannot see this and makes a sneaky move to anoint Clinton with super delegates, you will see all the momentum for the donkey clan grind to a halt. Does it seem unreasonable that so many who are for Obama would turn to McCain if Clinton is the nominee? Perhaps. But that doesn't change reality.
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The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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