23 February 2008 - 5:57pm
The difference between the DLC and Barack Obama
Sometimes the partisan blinders end up being blindfolds.
Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft gets it all backwards:
Obama's Unity Schtick is precisely what the DLC and Joe Lieberman have been preaching for decades and that the progressive blogs were supposed to be fighting AGAINST.
Not.
Barack Obama is a progressive who pitches his rhetoric in rational, moderate, common sense tones to appeal to centrists and independents and even disaffected Republicans, drawing them to his point of view.
This is just the opposite of Joe Lieberman, who has been voting with the right on important issues (and let's start with the war on Iraq and go from there), while pitching his rhetoric against the left.
Equating the two seems to be simply -- as Barack himself might put it -- intellectually lazy.
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