One of the most over the top pro Obama sites from February forward was Americablog. At times, the front page authors' critiques of Hillary would devolve to the juvenilia of name calling and school yard taunts (i,.e., "tell this horrible woman to go away!")
Now, look at today's joint front page post - -
http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/lack- of-any-consistent-lines-of-attack.html#d isqus_thread
High (or low) lights:
"There is an incredible discontent out there with the way this campaign is being run. The fact that the discontent isn't being recognized, isn't being assuaged, is disturbing. People aren't worried about the election, they're becoming despondent about it. They're not motivated to work twice as hard, they instead feel as if they've had the wind knocked out of them. This is far beyond a healthy skepticism as to whether Obama can win."
"Just to be clear, this isn't the kind of post we want to be writing right now. We'd much rather be beating the crap out of John McCain's hypocrisy and rebutting the Karl Rove attacks on Obama. Anyone who read this blog during the primaries knows how strongly we felt about nominating Obama. Our commitment can't be questioned. We really, really, really want a Democratic president. But, we're not getting much to work with from the Obama campaign, hence this post. As John wrote, this feeling is pervasive. For some reason, Obama's top advisers seem to be living in their own bubble and this campaign, which we all thought would be different, is starting to feel like Democratic campaigns of the past."
My first reaction - - NOW you morons come to this realization? When we tried to tell you . . .
My second rection - - Are you're truly surprised that a campaign shepharded by Tom Daschle and the Kennedy machine (the folks who gave us Presidents Teddy, Dukakis and Kerry) "is starting to feel like [losing] Democratic campaigns of the past"? Didn't you consciously and intentionally reject the only winning Democratic team in the past 30 years?
And my third and final reaction (after getting rid of the last post primary vitriol) - - I hope the amen chorus that applauds whatever the campaign does and says will start to LISTEN and CONSIDER valuable critique from what should be part of their fired up base. The damn thing is tied. "We dont need you" and "go away" are no longer viable options (if they ever were).
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