Booman recently posted this little essay: Keeping Things in Balance.
After a parapraph that was a truly tortured attempt to remain “neutral” regarding Obama’s rightward rush while still supporting him, the second and last paragraph stated:
But I will say this. If anyone in the Obama campaign is listening, tell your candidate to take his foot off the centrism accelerator. He’s feeding the left more centrism than they can digest all at once. We all knew and expected that you would tack to the center once the nomination was secured. But you definitely should dole this stuff out in a more piecemeal fashion. You’re actually starting to damage the unity, motivation, and credibility of your base. And that has its costs.
After my laughing fit subsided I decided to write a reply to this post.
Which grew.
Here it is in its entirety.
But I will say this.If anyone in the Obama campaign is listening, tell your candidate to take his foot off the centrism accelerator. He’s feeding the left more centrism than they can digest all at once. We all knew and expected that you would tack to the center once the nomination was secured. But you definitely should dole this stuff out in a more piecemeal fashion. You’re actually starting to damage the unity, motivation, and credibility of your base. And that has its costs.
The “unity, motivation, and credibility” of Obama’s base, eh? And dissing that base “has its costs” ?
AHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!
“And that has its costs!!!???”
PLEASE, Booman.
Stop it.
Yer killin’ me!!!
The leftiness base has no unity, motivation, or credibility left. Dkos has been a crock of dithering shits for about four years now…as you should well know…and the whole rest of the left blogosphere amounts to a hill of beans compared to the votes in any one swing state.
So…of what “costs” do you speak?
Most of the so-called left is gojng to vote for Obama no matter what he does. A good part of that group will make excuses for his actions…”Oh, it’s only practical politics” (Myself included. The only difference between me and you folks is that I have been consistent in that stance, witness my support of Hillary Clinton as well as Barack Obama during the primaries.)…and the stubborn, embittered few? The angry-and-feeling-dissed middle aged white female vote (recently given the nasty label “the Puma/Cougar vote” by the MSM) and the die-hard leftiness clones who are still holding out for Kucinich?
Please. Win one precinct in Ohio and you have already outnumbered THAT vote.
So what costs do you mean, Booman?
The Obama people can add and subtract.
Can you?
Money?
C’mon.
He has already solved that problem by opting out of public financing.
What’s left?
Morality?
(Parse parse parse…)
To win, or not to win: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous politics,
Or to take arms against a sea of crooks,
And by opposing lose to them? To lose: to rule
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That politics is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. But to lose, to sleep;
To lose perchance forever!!!??? Ay, there’s the rub.(Parse parse parse…)
OK. I think I’ve got it.
FUCK those leftiness motherfuckers.
Yes. Fuck ’em!!!
Rightward…HO!!!
Yes I can!!!
And yes he will.
Bet on it
Yon prince hath a lean and practical look.
Bet on that as well.
And get used to it, too.
I think you are looklng at 8 years of practical politics.
A BOUNTY of Fitzmasses fer y’all!!!!
That should make you very happy. Just think. Eight more years of complainability.
AHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!
HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO !!!!
Yours truly…
Santa
P.S. Mrs. Claus and I are actually quite tickled.
We just LOVE a good joke!!!
Ah cain’t WAIT!!!
You have painted yourselves right into a corner. On the far left side of the room.
McCain wins?
FITZMAS!!!
Obama wins?
More FITZMAS!!!
Oh GOODY!!!
AG
P.S. Wait’ll Obama picks Wesley Clark as his running mate.
Ah jes’ cain’t WAIT fer that uproar!!!
The leftiness blogs?
Phhhhhhhftttttt!!!
Go peddle yer papers.
(Or is the operative word “piddle”?)
Shorter Arthur: I told you so!!!
Watching.
Waiting.
But…NEVER short.
AG
P.S. Well…hardly ever.
awwwww, c’mon AG, tell us how you REALLY feel ; )
LMAO
peace man
you feel very good about yourself. It’s hard to live in the world, surrounded by fools and cretins, and always being right.
But someone has to do it.
Buck up, kiddo.
Fitzmas comes but once a week, these days.
AG
AG. Consistently the only dude around here more cynical than I am.
Even Steven D cracks a smile once in a while.
And yet, nobody’s ever gone broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people…or the forgiveness quotient of the left Blogosphere, for that matter.
Hardly.
I actually believe that everything is just as it should be. That the universe is perfect in every respect.
Us motes of dust?
No big deal.
Just a lovely, ongoing dance.
Like the dance of dust particles that you can see in a ray of sunshine peeking out from behind a curtain in a darkened room.
Cynical?
Hardly.
Here is one of my masters.
What HE said.
What HE said.
Have a nice day.
AG
Here is an essay from Al Giordano over at The Field on Smart Dissent.
Giordano is in good company with BooMan who today has admonished in his eassy Keeping Things in Balance on our push against Obama’s move to the center – right. Giordano speaks to all Chicken Little feathers, including moi. I must admit I’m not ready to be reasonable. But I’ll see what he does on FISA and other issues. I’m livid.
The Video
Al and I seem to see things very similarly, despite our age difference.
well you rank very high buddy and we’re very proud of you.