…especially if Hillary gets the nomination (San Francisco Chronicle). He says he’s going to wait and see what the Democrats come up with. Many hold Nader responsible for bringing us Bush and Co. I am all for an idealist gadfly who can push the Democrats toward more progressive stances but his intransigence and egotism appear boundless. However, he is not the problem but only a symptom of a system which does not have room for idealism and a segment of the liberal voting public too myopic to realize that (amongst all the other versions of voter myopia that plague the American electorate…) If he runs, I hope that those who voted for him in the past have learned their lesson and will not play their small but perhaps decisive part in handing the election to the Republicans again.
Daily Archives: 5 Mar 07
The Obama Myth
Factual Discrepancies to the Selma Claim: “Sunday’s march in Selma, Ala., may have been a sacred commemoration of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ civil rights march of 1965, but beneath it all lurked raw politics, with Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., competing fiercely for black voters.
While local churches were packed with parishioners, just a few hundred yards apart on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, the rival Democratic presidential candidates made their pitches, both praising civil rights leaders for paving their way.
‘Don’t tell me I’m not coming home when I come to Selma, Ala. I’m here because somebody marched for our freedom. I’m here because y’all sacrificed for me,’ Obama told a crowd.” (KTRE)
Did anyone hear the soundbites from Obama’s Selma speech? He certainly has developed a down-home accent recently. I hope this won’t be a harbinger of a wholesale attempt to reinvent himself similar to blue-blood New England preppie Dubya’s vote-trolling transformation into a drawlin’ Texas shucks-jes’-folks common man.
Nader says he may run in 2008…
…especially if Hillary gets the nomination (San Francisco Chronicle). He says he’s going to wait and see what the Democrats come up with. Many hold Nader responsible for bringing us Bush and Co. I am all for an idealist gadfly who can push the Democrats toward more progressive stances but his intransigence and egotism appear boundless. However, he is not the problem but only a symptom of a system which does not have room for idealism and a segment of the liberal voting public too myopic to realize that (amongst all the other versions of voter myopia that plague the American electorate…) If he runs, I hope that those who voted for him in the past have learned their lesson and will not play their small but perhaps decisive part in handing the election to the Republicans again.
