The Virtues of Political Defensive Pessimism

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As you may know, I've been convinced that Obama is a centre-right Democrat since his candidacy begun. I was initally sympathetic to Gravel, but realized his tax ideas weren't in line with mine. So then I started championing Kunich, then Edwards. Since I'm not a US citizen this all amounted to mere theoretical "what-if I was" advocacy and discussion/blogosphere debates. If I were an American citizen, I probably would of voted Nader in solid states but Obama in swing states. I had no illusions about what Obama would do by his own devices: little.

Others, unfortunately, did. We are finally beginning to see the burn naive Obama optimism among members of the Left has caused. He is not "playing 3D chess", he is capitulating to the chalkboard conspiracists of the Right.

Scott Cortmeister is one example: initally he believed Obama was "playing Chess while I'm playing checkers". That is, every time he criticized Obama for his moderation was simply because he couldn't see Obama's "master strategy".

Finally, Cortmeister admits that Obama's bipartisanship is "insanity" and has finally burned out into a severe political depression. He now admits that Obama has no "grand strategy" and is simply giving in.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhcNdHjoyKI[/youtube]

How many more Obama fans will follow this trend?

Oh, all of this is merely because President Obama isn't Ron Paul. If it were Ron Paul then all of the world would have been happy and good and wonderful.

It's awful that Obama couldn't hone in a consistent progressive message all this time he's been in Washington and domineer the debate. Thanks to his lack of persistence the Democrats are going to loose the House and we'll see a repetition of the Clinton years.

In times of Depression people are most willing for radical solutions: Obama failed to provide even the most lacklustre of reforms. John Boehner will be the next speaker of the House due to Obama's ineffectual messaging.

Obama is interested in exactly one thing -- a second term.

ruveyn

i just can't see how that would be any worse than a first mccain term, or a second bush-the-senior term, for that matter. but i am neurotically picky like that.
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