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[furrbear]

PastorDan over at Street Prophets awards the Wanker Of The Day:

Hillary Clinton.

Mercy, Is the best we are to get from Hillary Clinton to differentiate herself from Barack Obama is that she starts to sound like Karl Rove?

What's with all the use of (discredited) Republican Talking Points?

I still have the tire marks from being tossed under the Bus of Political Expediency over DOMA - I expect better from our next President. And there's a small fraction of me that uncynically feels we can still achieve it; but not with the politics of Rovian division.

Comments

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Rob, Please don't misread this as me being a defender of MoveOn. While there are some activities of theirs I admire, there is still quite a lot that cause me to roll my eyes and utter, OYE!.

The MoveOn part is only part of the symptom. It's the Republican talking points, the "unvetted facts" (read: lies), and continued 'Politics of Division'.

Progressives in this country are ready for a change. And part of that change involves dumping the old DLC-style of "Swing-state middle-of-the-road" losing campaigning.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

All right — I hope, though, that my confusion is understandable, given the link in question was staunchly defending MoveOn. :)

Speaking for myself, I see this as endemic to the American system. Duverger is alive and well, and constantly driving American politics to a hypothetical middle, at the expense of the vibrancy and dynamism of minority points of view. The tendency you've been seeing in Hillary, I saw all over the Republican nomination process.

I really wish we could end SMDP–style elections in the United States. Ending that, and ending the secret ballot, would do wonders for elections.