Friday, August 05, 2011

I Was Wrong

In the Democratic primary of 2008 I backed Barack Obama. I blogged my support for him, voted for him, and went to the state convention as an Obama delegate. I believed in his promise of change. I was wrong. I backed the wrong candidate. I apologize.
(Picture is from the blog What Would Jack Do?)
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown8/05/2011 8:25 AM

    Having lived through her husband's two terms, YES, I think she would have sold out the Left at every turn just like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have.

    ...And it's probable we'd have Vice President Palin right now.

    I backed Obama, and I suspect that it was the right decision in the circumstances.

    He ran a fantastic campaign. Flawless!

    He's sort of a C- as President, unfortunately.

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  2. Anonymous8/05/2011 12:21 PM

    KatyDid, Hillary's policy proposals on her campaign web site were actual LIBERAL policy proposals, while Obama's policy proposals on his web site were CONSERVATIVE policy proposals. On healthcare, for example, she wasn't for single-payer because the polls showed that more Americans preferred RomneyCare and democracy is the notion that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard, but she *did* have both a real public option *and* a buy-in option into the same plan Congress uses.

    Furthermore, her voting record during her short time as a Senator was unabashedly liberal. Obama didn't really vote enough times for us to get a good feel for his record, since he was running for President during most of his Senate career, but he tended to vote for whatever everybody else voted for -- a follower, not a leader.

    And finally, we might bash Bill Clinton, but when it counted he *did* stand up to the right wing. He let the right wing shut down government rather than sign a bad budget bill, and when the right wing tried to pull the debt ceiling bull**** they just pulled, Clinton basically said "C'mon punk, make my day and shut down government again, see how that works out for ya in the upcoming elections" and the right wing backed down. Bill, unlike Hillary, is a compulsive compromiser, but he isn't a spineless lackey like Obama.

    I backed Hillary during the primaries once the other candidates dropped out, and I'm not ashamed of that at all. She wouldn't have been liberal nirvana -- but her own record shows she's more liberal than BIll was, and Bill was more liberal than Obama, so you do the math.

    The slickest thing Obama did was get Hillary inside the tent pissing out so she wouldn't challenge him in the 2012 election. Otherwise... well. But, sad to say, we have the president we have, not the one we *wish* we had...

    - Badtux the Pragmatic Penguin

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  3. Ted McLaughlin8/05/2011 9:16 PM

    I also (fervently) supported Obama, endorsing in August, 2007, before anyone really was even paying attention to him. All I want now is to see the same man in the White House that I saw four years ago. I wonder what became of him, and I'm saddened, because the reality has fallen so far short of the promises.

    Jack (What Would Jack Do?)

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  4. Ted McLaughlin8/05/2011 9:20 PM

    Badtux and Jack -

    Please accept by apology. I accidentally deleted both of your comments while meaning to publish them. So I had to go back to my e-mail and copy and paste them into the comment section (which is why they don't show up under your name in the heading). I'm embarrassed and will do better in the future. Please forgive me.

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