http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032503082.html?hpid=topnews
“But as Obama heads into the final presidential primaries, Sen. John McCain and other Republicans have already started to brand him a standard-order left-winger, "a down-the-line liberal," as McCain strategist Charles R. Black Jr. put it, in a long line of Democratic White House hopefuls.”
“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has also started slapping the L-word on Obama, warning that his appeal among moderate voters will diminish as they become more aware of liberal positions he took in the past, such as calling for single-payer health care and an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba. "The evidence is that the more [voters] have been learning about him, the more his coalition has been shrinking," Clinton strategist Mark Penn said.”
I have been silent about the neocon, Republican-Lite, Democratic “Leadership” Council (DLC), and their poster girl, Hillary, during the Primary season -- but enough is enough. Just like Joe LIEberman, Hillary is helping McCain to split the Democratic Party -- just as the DLC has been doing for over a decade. This is twice that she has recently sided with John McCain against Obama, and she was dead wrong both times. The first time was when she said that McCain was more able to be CIC than Obama, and now she is calling Obama a “Liberal” as if that were a bad thing.
First of all, Americans overwhelmingly want a return to moderate Liberal values, and that includes getting our Citizen-soldiers out of harm’s way, and out of that stupid, stupid, war in Iraq. The 2006 Congressional mid-term elections proved that beyond a doubt. Liberal Middle Americans also want to put the brakes on our rapidly crumbling infrastructure (roads, bridges, ports, airports, etc.) and to permanently fix things like Social Security and Medicare. Liberal Americans want health care, regardless of how it is paid for, and increased taxes for the common good are acceptable to most.
When Hillary calls Obama, and in turn me, a “Liberal,” she is implying that Liberals are less patriotic than Conservatives, but she is really telling the American people that she is just another neocon Republican-Lite DLC corporatist. She forgets the fact that American Liberalism is the foundation of the great advances made by this country of ours. She forgets that the Constitution was written, and amended, based on the Liberal values of the American People. Hillary forgets what America and its People stand for, and she promotes neocon-style facism by representing corporations instead of the People who voted for her.
If Hillary is nominated as the Democratic Presidential nominee, I will vote for her, but only because McCain would be much worse. And then, I will work even harder to replace her, and all of the neoconservative DLC and Republican corporatists, because they have perverted our Representative form of government for their own (and their corporate sponsors') benefit.
