it's not the end of the world

[nabil]

that obama chose to glorify a gay-hating, anti-choice creep of a preacher at his inauguration ceremony.  but it is a real bad sign.

the reason it's a bad sign is that i'm looking at 3 decades of democratic politicians taking lefty votes for granted, shunning us, while courting right-wingers who always vote republican.  this is part of what has fucked up this country so bad; 30 years of driving to the right, working on destroying the middle class, giving charity to the rich and screwing the rest of us.

in the immortal words of St Molly Ivins, dance with who brung ya. 

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

My hope/thought is that he's doing this to help keep 20-25% of the US population from hating him with the fires of 1,000 suns - in short a token to make nice with people who'd otherwise hate him. Given Obama's plans for contraception and abortion access, I'm fairly certain that this is all that is.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

May that it be so.

[canis-fortuna.livejournal.com]

Dude. If it bugs you, leave the Democratic party. I did because of this very thing.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Saint Molly of Austin, ora pro nobis!

[alibi-shop.livejournal.com]

One reason I'm glad I'm not a politician: when 69,456,897 people brung ya, which ones do you dance with, and in what order?

I mean, I know who I want him to listen to... but I can't deny there were a lot of semi-conservative voters who jumped ship this year, or the map wouldn't have looked the way it did. He courted them and it worked. In that situation, "taking lefty votes for granted" is totally rational, albeit obnoxious.

If you said "taking lefty activists and volunteers for granted," that's another story. I'm sure their commitment made a difference in the election. But again, given the alternative, I'm pretty sure most of those folks would've still given it their all this year even if Obama had cozied up to Rick Warren earlier on. Oh wait, actually there's no need to speculate about that, because he did -- Warren hosted one of the debates! So if "a bad sign" means that we're finding out something new about Obama, that should give his supporters second thoughts -- I'm not seeing it.