Read the FAQ.
Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 09:58:35 PM PDT
Read the FAQ.
This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory.
Does this look familiar? Of course it does; its primary season and... well, its primary season.
Now take a second to read just a tiny bit further.
And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable
Ah... "A reform blog."
I knew there was a reason why I was here - why many of us are here. When everything had gone to shit and the Democratic Party lay in splinters, this place was our refuge. When we were set aside by the "powers that be" and left only with a profound sense of betrayal, it was here that we found solace; it was here that we found our voices again.
Hindsight, as they say is 20/20, but without the influence of the Clinton machine, we may have actually had an opposition party in Washington these last few years. Instead of triangulating, politicking, and glad-handing one another, maybe, just maybe, Democrats might have had the backbone to stand up for America.
Alas, we were treated to a coalition of scared, half-wits on a endless quest in pursuit of that "successful" yet elusive Clintonian "victory" strategy. This pathetic shell of a party is main the reason why we were motivated to come together and form this fabulous community, which we have since discovered, has developed power of its own.
The irony of Clinton's meager yet influential support within dailykos isn't lost on us. A community that was built by those that were discarded and outraged by an incompetent Clintonian run party is now flooded with supporters of the very machine that failed us - supporters who compete for relevancy with third tiered candidates, but have driven community dialogue through accusations and innuendo of bigotry, disloyalty, and extremism to the point where a steady drumbeating of “support the nominee” seeks to quell debate and at times reason.
I might not be enamored with any particular candidate this primary season, but I am sure of one thing: I'm tired of the same old losing strategy that focuses on short-term gains in lieu of the long-term health of our party and democracy. Its time to put to bed the so-called "centrism" of the 90's once and for all.
Since our undemocratic nomination process has narrowed it down to Clinton and Obama, I support Obama.
Let's not go through this process of taking back our party again after the next Clinton leaves office.
Vote for Obama!
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