Maybe we can get Scarlett Johansson to e-mail him about this
Selling out on public campaign financing doesn't bother me. Selling out on FISA is another story.
That's exactly what Obama is doing here -- completely reversing himself on telecom amnesty and warrantless eavesdropping, all in order to give the right-wing of the GOP everything it wants on national security issues in order to avoid a fight...All of the decades-old, conventional Beltway mythologies are trotted out here to praise Obama. Democrats move to the "center" by embracing hard-core right-wing policies. Democrats will look "weak" unless they turn themselves into Republican clones on national security. A President becomes "strong" when he tramples on the Constitution and the rule of law in the name of keeping us safe. Democrats must embrace the Right and repudiate the base of their own party, and they must support Dick Cheney's policies while "standing up to the ACLU."...
"I will caution the Obama campaign that 'Better than McCain' is not much of a rallying cry. We all remember how 'anything is better than Bush' turned out in 2004."
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I love to say I told you so. I still don't hate the guy, however, because I knew he was just a man, just a politician from day one. And I agree he's better than McCain (unless McCain get's Bloomberg as Veep).
I do feel terrible for all those who tremble to see their god as weak and mortal.
Any wonder he's paranoid his e-mails to the lovely Scarlett would be taken the wrong way, seeing as how he supports government access to all his personal e-mails.
Posted by: pessimist | June 26, 2008 3:21 PM
Oh, knock it off already. No one here ever said Obama was above politics, much less saintly or superhuman. The myth of the glassy-eyed True Believers always struck me as a creation of the lazy media and baffled Clintonistas desperate to find an excuse for Hillary's losses.
Posted by: radosh | June 26, 2008 3:38 PM
Say what you will about his ascendency's failure to even slighty mimic the messianic, but Scarlett Johannson makes one most excellent Mary Magdelene.
Posted by: pessimist | June 26, 2008 3:49 PM
>>The myth of the glassy-eyed True Believers always struck me as a creation of the lazy media and baffled Clintonistas desperate to find an excuse for Hillary's losses.
Amen.
Posted by: Jim/The Velvet Blog | June 26, 2008 6:13 PM
I don't like the short blond hair.
Posted by: Owen | June 26, 2008 8:22 PM
Obama is the best candidate in the race. He's not the best candidate ever.
Posted by: therblig | June 27, 2008 12:57 PM