Left Wing Bloggers Irate Over Barack Obama’s Attempt to Win the Election
July 2, 2008
Over the past couple of weeks we have documented the emerging angst exhibited by some on the far left over Barack Obama’s drive to the middle, or as they refer to it as “Obama’s betrayal of the party.” throughout this “outcry” I have pointed out numerous times that these ideologues on the fringe left are acting as emotionalists, in a manner that is not only hindering Obama’s chances of victory, but cement the notion that many of these individuals simply find more comfort in losing, and the ability to whine, accuse, and fire arrows from their ivory towers, that defeat allows them to marinate themselves in.
The good news in all of this is that it is becoming evident that not all, heck, not even a majority of Democrats feel the way that those shedding tears over their imaginary “betrayal by Obama”, and unlike the past, the rational, like minded Dems are speaking up.
Andy Borowitz, the comedian/ writer for the New Yorker and the New York Times posted a classic article earlier this afternoon over on The Huffington Post. Borowitz captures the contrived anger from those on the far reaches of the left, which they have subsequently decided to aim at Barack Obama, and his attempts to win the 2008 presidential election:
“The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.
Suspicions about Sen. Obama’s true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party’s losing tradition.”
Borowitz continue to cite specific instances of far left bloggers attacking Obama for – in all reality – trying to win the Presidential election, a trait that these individuals don’t really seem to appreciate in terms of “their candidates”:
“Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes,” wrote liberal blogger Carol Foyler at LibDemWatch.com, a blog read by a half-dozen other liberal bloggers. “He must be stopped.”
But those comments were not nearly as strident as those of Tracy Klugian, whose blog LoseOn.org has backed unsuccessful Democratic candidates since 2000.
“Increasingly, Barack Obama’s message is becoming more accessible, appealing, and yes, potentially successful,” he wrote. “Any Democrat who voted for Dukakis, Mondale or Kerry should regard this as a betrayal.”
Liberal bloggers said that they would be watching Sen. Obama’s vice-presidential selection process “very closely” for signs that he is plotting to win the election.
“Barack Obama still has a chance to pick someone disastrous as a sign that he wants to lose this thing,” Ms. Foyler wrote. “If not, he should brace himself for some really mean blog posts.”
If this doesn’t sum up the kind of people who are accusing, attacking, and lambasting Barack Obama nothing will. These are pristine examples of how out of touch these people really are, and that they would rather lose election after election, rather then opening the party tent and in turn actually win from time to time.
Luckily it appears that these hare brained cries from the far left, a small minority of the party mind you, are not hindering Obama’s campaign strategy, one which has him currently in the drivers seat in the polls. Finally we have a candidate who is willing to open up the party doors to those in the middle, which is important because without those people, or at least a portion of those people, decide Presidential elections.
Anyperson, on either the far right, or the far left, who expects their parties candidate to run a campaign lockstep with their sometimes “radical” ideology is asking for one of two things; either a candidate who has no shot of winning in November, and/or a candidate who is willing to polarize the majority of their base simply to satisfy their smaller, but louder, faction of the party, not to mention throw away and chance he/she had of winning the independent vote.
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