President-elect Obama has made his feelings about the liberal base of the Democratic Party perfectly clear: We've outlived our usefulness. It's time to return the favor.
If his appointment of a Republican national security team and a right-wing economics team, along with his signals that no one will be investigated, let alone punished, for the crimes of the Bush Administration did not make that clear, his choice of the James-Dobson-think-alike Rick Warren certainly did.
Well, I have some news for the president-elect:
No turkee for you.
I don't regret voting for Barack Obama. Given the field, I'm not unhappy he got the nomination. But I am disappointed that he turned out to be the lesser of two evils, as usual, instead of anyone I can positively support.
So I'm voting with my feet. I unsubscribed from mybarackobama.com and I told them why. I'm not interested in getting any more emails from David Plouffe begging for money. I'm certainly not going to financially support someone who gives an honored place to exactly the sort of malevolent influence on our politics that ought to be marginalized. Plouffe can pass around the hat among his new friends at Saddleback Church.
Instead, I'll be supporting the campaign to overturn Proposition H8 and contributing to liberal primary challengers to Blue Dogs in 2010. That's change I can believe in.