Taken straight from the FAQs:
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. 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.
Kos and everyone else can deride Obama's decision on FISA (I don't care for it - but bigger fish to fry). They can even call it triangulation (though for the life of me it seems that no one knows the meaning of that word - there was no third party in this). But when their comments are played by Sean Hannity, when people stop (or continue to not) working for his election and when they'd rather rail against Senator Obama than Senator McCain - then they are at odds with the purpose of this blog.
It is June 2008 - not January or June 2009, and we need to start acting like it. In basketball terms, this is when people say that the Final Four game is really the championship and the final game is merely perfunctory. The Democratic nominee did not determine the next President of the United States - there's still one more election to win.
We have 116 days until November 4, 2008. Given the Olympics, Labor Day and other times when the media won't have time for our election, we have something like 80 days to make the case for Senator Obama to be the President of the United States. Ask yourself the following and if it turns out you're an Obama supporter - please take the time to do something, anything, to get him elected in the fall.
Do you really think that John McCain will be better on FISA that Obama? (Senator Feingold doesn't)
Do you really think that John McCain cares more about equal opportunity and power for women? (Senator Clinton doesn't)
Do you really think that John McCain wants this war over sooner?
Do you think that John McCain is less beholden to special interests and lobbies?
One simple choice in November: McCain or Obama. What you do decides who wins (the American corporations or the American people). Yes, I think you can challenge the nominee (and others) to be better progressives. But first, you need to get them in office instead of merely flailing about trying to get them to agree with what you think on everything. A progressive nominee, who isn't elected, does nothing to improve the system.