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How will Barack Obama possibly recover from the crippling blow of losing the support of Richard Cohen's sister? Honey, the election is over. Don't you know the old story? A dead politician arrives at the pearly gates and is offered the choice between heaven and hell. Shown around hell, it appears to be a golf course, with all his friends, happy, rich, well-fed and relaxed; heaven, by contrast, consists of the traditional depiction with angels, harps, clouds and a whole lot of sitting around. The surprised politician decides he'd rather go to hell, but when he arrives, he finds a barren, burning wasteland whose miserable residents are engaged in picking up trash while more trash rains from the sky. Befuddled, he asks the devil what happened to the hell he'd seen earlier? Satan grins: "Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted." Don't mistake that allegory for a joke.
And what does "lost" mean, anyway? Remember when JAC announced that Obama had "lost" him -- just not in a way that would lead to JAC not voting for him? Frankly, I'm unsympathetic to those who voted for Obama but who now have buyer's remorse.
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I couldn't contain my view on this in a single comment, so I
decided to post on it here.
Concern over Warren is vastly overblown
And that's not me saying so, it's Melissa Ethridge.
President-elect Obama should take the lesson from this that many (certainly not all, Rafique!) of his supporters are shallow, superficial folks who have hot-blooded, emotional reactions too often and are unwilling to calm back down and look at a larger context. Just as I've made the point to those who opposed Obama that most of the people who voted for Obama did not do so because he was probably a socialist, neither did Obama pick Rev. Warren because he phrased something in a way which he now regrets. President-elect Obama (and, clearly, Melissa Ethridge) know Rev. Warren much better than the folks now stamping their feet and huffing and puffing. The folks who are complaining are part of the large set of people (found on both sides of the aisle) that see politics as an all-or-nothing sport, where the end object is to crush the other side.
Yep. I mean, at the end of the day, this bridge-building is
exactly the thing Obama campaigned on. Who knew he'd get so much heat for keeping his campaign promises?
I always thought so
I've always expected that to whatever extent he followed through on promises of legitimate bridge-building, Obama would get pooped on by upset progressives. Because while progressives love fancy rhetoric about working in an open and collegial atmosphere with a group consisting of diverse sociocultural perspectives, they have trouble with how the theory manifests in the real world.
This is true of partisans from both sides. They always think that the end result of the group meeting will be everyone finally coming over to their way of thinking. To such folks, the notion of a half-loaf is appalling.
Common Sense or Other
This "common sense" comes from the same musician who threatened to not pay her taxes until Proposition 8 had passed?
If not, my bad. Good for her.
If so, her bad. And it seems more like Obama worship at the expense of personal beliefs or hypocrisy.
Well Rachel, I was surprised that this bit of wisdom came from
her, considering the prior lunacy you just mentioned, but it's not like Etheridge is the primary source here, as far as evidence that Rick Warren isn't the hateful bigot he's being made out to be. Besides, people can calm down after awhile, you know?
But where's the
But where's the rainbow-farting unicorns? He promised me rainbow-farting unicorns!
I like Gruntled Center has to
I like Gruntled Center has to say about this.
Yes as always
Yes as always a well thought out comment by Beau Weston. And "sonofa gun" if you read his posts over the past year(s) he's been an avid Obama supporter AND an eloquent writer on the problems with "gay marriage" (though I don't honestly know if he would have voted for or against Prop 8).
Agreed. Rock solid wisdom.
I'm adding him to my blogroll.