Antiprogressive Democrats in Denial about the Fat Pig with Clay Feet
By Un coup de des on June 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, Hoodwinking, Joe Biden, John Kerry
The cartoon Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer sketched today illustrates what readers of No Quarter already know: ostensible progressives and venal Democrats are acutely aware of the compromised status of their candidate. But they will never admit it. Instead, they will turn their backs and behave as if Barack Obama’s desire to privatize public institutions is entirely acceptable. ”Yes, I know, but nevertheless:” this is the statement Democrats are now forced to utter.
I quote Senator Joe Biden (D-DE):
“In terms of undermining the public financing idea for everyone” the decision “doesn’t help,” Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said today on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “It’s going to be harder to make the case” for public financing, he said.Still, Biden said Obama has kept his commitment of “reducing the influence of big money in his campaign, unlike other campaigns.” Almost 80 percent of Obama’s contributions are $100 or less, “so he’s keeping with the purpose of public financing,” Biden said.
I quote the Obamabot Joseph Palermo’s vain attempt to justify Obama’s decision not to accept public financing:
Let’s set the record straight. First, Obama did not “vow” to take public financing no matter what ensued in the campaign. There were all sorts of conditions and unpredictable variables that he said would affect his decision about public financing when (and if) the time came. He wisely gave himself wiggle room on the issue. That’s what politicians do. He didn’t paint himself into a corner because at the time he didn’t know if he’d be able to unseat Hillary Clinton or who his likely Republican opponent would be.Second, absent from the discussion about Obama’s “betrayal” of his principles because he’s not foolish enough to tie his hands in the general election is the fact that he has broken all records in American politics for the amount of money raised BY SMALL DONATIONS. The vast majority of his campaign cash, about 93 percent, has come from donations of $200 or less. George W. Bush could never do this; and John McCain could never do it either. So we should punish the one candidate whose campaign is the least beholden to giant corporations and wealthy individuals? Obama has accomplished exactly what he said he did in his recent statement on the issue: a new form of public financing.
I quote Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who stumbles over himself to rationalize Obama’s poor decision:
On a conference call with reporters moments ago, Kerry insisted that the decision was necessary if Obama is to avoid succumbing under a barrage of such spending, as he did.“You know, the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth hadn’t appeared in July of my year as a funded group,” Kerry said. “And they were funded in August, which was the time I was tied to campaign finance reform and didn’t have the money to respond. And it had an obvious, profound impact. So I think in order to control your campaign and your message, it is essential to be able to respond to those and be free to respond to them.”
”I know, but nevertheless:” antiprogressive Democrats and their stenographers are in complete and utter denial. At least Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) is unwilling to turn his back on the giant pig with clay feet that has inserted itself into the Democratic tent. I quote:
“This is not a good decision,” Feingold said in a statement today. “While the current public financing system for the presidential primaries is broken, the system for the general election is not. The entire system must be updated.”
Real Democrats such as Russ Feingold understand what we and columnist Liz Sidoti understand: Obama “chose winning over his word.” But even worse, Obama also lied. I quote Sidoti:
Obama blamed his decision in part on McCain and “the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups.” But he failed to mention that the only outside groups running ads in earnest so far are those aligned with Obama — and running commercials against McCain.
Because Democrats seem to support a candidate who seemingly desires to privatize public institutions, I can only assume that the Democratic Party is no longer a party of reform. Disavowing the compromised status of the candidate they selected to serve as their Party’s nominee, they are unable and unwilling to acknowledge the giant pig with clay feet that will hog all the space at their little convention in Denver. Principles, I guess, will be jettisoned in the name of electing a corrupt candidate with clay feet who learned politics in the pig pens of inner city Chicago.
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