Obama should listen, instead he will stey the course using his standard Chicago Politics as usual model...
http://jaltcoh.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-obama-lost-me.html >>> So in what sense did he "lose me"? As with my mom's "How Kerry lost me," I >>> haven't gone from supporter to non-supporter. What I mean is that I used to >>> hold these beliefs: * I thought he was clearly, dramatically preferably to Hillary Clinton. * I thought he was virtually the dream candidate for 2008, with the obvious but overlookable exception of his thin resume. I now believe that I was wrong. Specifically: * He's probably better than Hillary would have been, but it's at least really close, and I'm even open to the idea that she would have been better. * I still support Obama, but not particularly more strongly than I'd be supporting any other mainstream Democratic candidate who was the nominee. * He's just not a good enough candidate. Democrats are entitled to feel very disappointed about this. It's taken me a long time to get to this point because there's no single issue or moment that decisively turned me off from him. Rather, it's a long list of things that add up to the "He's not good enough" conclusion. Here are the ones that most stand out to me: 1. "It's not surprising that they get bitter. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren't like them or anti- immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations." (#28 in my list of campaign moments, by the way) 2. His answer about "evil" in Rick Warren's Saddleback Forum 3. Saying he would personally meet with dictators in his first year without preconditions 4. I think he got a bad rap for supposedly flip-flopping and moving to the center immediately after he clinched the nomination, but his timing and PR could hardly have been worse. 5. The Palin pick seemed to catch them utterly by surprise. I have more points to add to this list -- about race, foreign policy, and the idea that he hasn't given enough specifics on policy. But they won't all fit in one blog post, so I'll have to continue the list later this week. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
