I am a huge Obama supporter, I see him as the best presidential candidate with a real chance of winning I've ever had the chance to vote for. What's more, he's turned up at a time this Nation most desperately needs an agent of change. But I am not naive. We don't get purity in American politics. A candidate who satisfies all of our fondest idealistic desires might make us progressive folk extremely happy, but it won't mean anything if the happiness ends when the election results come in. A great candidate doesn't get to be a great leader if he/she is not elected, so inspirational views without masterful political skills won't do us much good.
  Obama combines these. He is the one, Oprah said it, and I believe it. I'm certainly not going to leave our candidate, and I hope no-one else here does either.
   And yet many of us are shaking our heads and wondering WTF is going on with some of the stances he's taken of late. What exactly is he doing these past few weeks, and why? And if he's "moving to the Center," is that smart? And can we really trust him?
 
 Update: The poll results are shocking thus far! The combination of pot and pie seems a sure winner around here.

 This isn't so much a diary, but a letter written to the publisher of the N.Y. Times to complain about shoddy "journalism," i.e. a lying pos OpEd (hit) piece by one Bill Kristol, who is himself a lying pos. It's a response to another diary I read earlier today suggesting we do just this.

 To wit:

 The day before yesterday our "Go To Guy" in the Senate, Russ Feingold posted a diary on Daily Kos which said this:
   
 "...with so many important issues facing this country and so much work to be done, I am concerned about the great deal of time multiple impeachment trials would take away from the Congress working on the problems of the country."
 
  Between the responses to that diary, and the responses to diaries reponding to the Senator's, thousands of opinions were expressed, many of them sounding angry and frustrated like mine, which lies just below the break.
  But personally, I couldn't stop there. I had to piece it all through because I'm a person who believes that to every problem, there lies a solution, and so this Diary presents that as well. For those interested, it's a call to Action.

 The 2008 presidential election will be the most critical election in quite some time. I understand that we've heard this before, and often with trite or flippant reasoning applied.
  But seriously folks, take a good hard look at where our beloved country is right now. I mean, you wouldn't have thought we could all fit in a handbasket, or that the Supreme Court would appoint a Hellbound president, but there you have it.
   While we're at a dangerous place, the flip side of the equation is that this will be an election of great opportunity, for there is grave discontent throughout the Nation, including deep in the Heartland. The GOP has cleverly created a "Red State" phenomenom, by using divisive, cynical and deceitful tactics which have resulted in an emotional (and irrational) alliagence on the part of many in Middle America, which actually run against their own interests as working people and as consumers (and as patriots!) As a result of the bushco presidency, and the realization that we've be "conned" there is a possibility for an historical re-allignment, should Democrats nominate someone that appeals to common American values, and hard-core American sensibilities. Someone like Wesley Clark.
  See p.s. at end of diary and take the poll!