False Prophet
Prophet-
False Prophet-
My doubts about Obama began with formation of his transition team and then cabinet. Dread has been building for the last year as I see financial policies and US foreign policy turn into clusterf#@$^S. Now Obama has become my worst nightmare. A democratic party false prophet who will split the party and send it back into the political wilderness. Reading this article scares the shit out of me. If we really are going to force people to pay 20% of income to private monopolies, then count me out Democrats. You deserve to and will get slaughtered in the next election. You cynically sold the country out for greed and then left the tattered remains of our democracy to teabagging lunatics. The bill coming out of the senate is an abomination and apparently the exact bill Obama wanted.
I've gone to a couple of Democracy for America training programs. Howard Dean gave me political training and only asked one thing. Go work in local parties and politics. Influence things at the grassroots and make change. He didn't ask anything else. No litmus tests or standard propaganda you would expect from a normal Democratic Party program. Hell, even republicans came to the trainings and got trained. Dean didn't even ask me to believe in him. I can only judge people by what they do, not what they say. I trust Howard Dean. I do not trust Obama.
Dean 2012
PS- I owe Herenton an apology. He supported Hillary Clinton in the primary. He said he did because he knew the Clinton's and had done enough to build trust with him. He didn't trust the smooth talking guy that hadn't done anything. Herenton got ripped for supporting Hillary. He knew a political truth.
posted by polar donkey at 5:58 PM
4 Comments:
I can dig it, man.
In recent months I've come down off my high, and started to remember why I didn't support him in the very beginning. All I could see was that he had given one very good anti-war speech, and written a couple of best sellers. I also had the vague sense that he was basically a centrist, or possibly a blueish dog. I was even wondering if he was another Harold Ford. (Remember, Harold was at one time a Democrat, before he switched to being a neo-Republican in time to to run for the Senate.)
I switched to Obama when Edwards quit and it was between him and Clinton. Not all that much difference, but Clinton could not have won the general. She would have been creamed.
9:53 PM
One more thing:
I'm not endorsing Herenton. Not by any stretch. But I suspect there will come a day when we will all realize with a shudder that he was right about Cohen. Herenton's got pretty good instincts.
9:56 PM
I can't wait to start asking Cohen & Herenton about TARP, Afghanistan, and healthcare reform. I want to see how far into the weeds Cohen is willing to follow Obama. Too bad this will all be about personalities not policy.
9:24 PM
Well said. Could not have said it better.
10:40 AM
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