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Time to MoveOn, as the .org’ers Say

by AltHippo @ 11:11 am. Filed under 2008 Elections

One of the things that I look forward to is being able to focus on the right-wing freak show rather than the rhetorical fallacies of fellow progressives. But today and tomorrow we’ll probably see a few token shots at the “Obamabots.” For example, BTD takes this statement by Roger Simon out of context to inflame Clinton supporters:

It has been a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, but Obama is not, one of his senior advisers assured me Tuesday night, going to spend a lot of time in the next few months wooing Clinton supporters whose feelings may be hurting.

Sounds like Roger Simon is saying that the Obama campaign told him that Clinton supporters would be thrown under the bus doesn’t it? But, the following paragraph makes clear that the Obama campaign staffer is saying that now the campaign pivots to focus on former Clinton supporters, independents, and Republicans: ( Politico )

“I think there are always immediate feelings of disappointment and anger,” Anita Dunn said. “But in the months ahead, he must appeal not just to the constituency groups who favored her in the primaries, but those he wants in the general election, and that includes independents and Republicans.”

Why would BTD quote the introductory remark without the context of the following paragraph? Interesting question. Here’s my theory. BTD understands that anger sells. He is providing what former supporters of Clinton are looking for: justification for their anger at Obama. Is the anger actually justified? Not from that quote it isn’t.

Any other theories?

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Bulworth Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I don’t get the Talk Left folks at all. I thought they were always a pretty liberal site,
and Obama is more reliably liberal than HRC. In contrast to Clinton, Obama has actually worked
to make the criminal justice system more just, from his days in Illinois,
which I would have thought the Talk Left folks would have particularly been drawn to.
And then of course there’s the matter of Hillary’s Iraq war vote and her vote on the bellicose
Iran resolution. So I don’t get it. Oh well.
AltHippo Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I don’t get it, either. From talking to many in DL, The Seminal, DC for Democracy, etc., one of the mysteries is why Talk Left would sacrifice its reputation as an even-handed legal analysis blog, and go all Hillary, all the time.

I do hope some day to say to the folks there: “Welcome back to the fight. This time, I know our side will win.” ( lightly stolen from V. Laszlo. )
Bulworth Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I’m trying to move on, too.

Although I still find myself acting like that character in Office Space,
who has to be restrained by his coworkers from taking one last swing of
the baseball bat at the obliterated fax machine. Then after convincing his
buddies he’s done swinging, they let go of him, and he lunges for the machine
again with bat in hand, as if remembering one more past insult that must be
accounted for.

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Bulworth Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am

I don’t get the Talk Left folks at all. I thought they were always a pretty liberal site,
and Obama is more reliably liberal than HRC. In contrast to Clinton, Obama has actually worked
to make the criminal justice system more just, from his days in Illinois,
which I would have thought the Talk Left folks would have particularly been drawn to.
And then of course there’s the matter of Hillary’s Iraq war vote and her vote on the bellicose
Iran resolution. So I don’t get it. Oh well.

AltHippo Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

I don’t get it, either. From talking to many in DL, The Seminal, DC for Democracy, etc., one of the mysteries is why Talk Left would sacrifice its reputation as an even-handed legal analysis blog, and go all Hillary, all the time.

I do hope some day to say to the folks there: “Welcome back to the fight. This time, I know our side will win.” ( lightly stolen from V. Laszlo. )

Bulworth Says:
June 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I’m trying to move on, too.

Although I still find myself acting like that character in Office Space,
who has to be restrained by his coworkers from taking one last swing of
the baseball bat at the obliterated fax machine. Then after convincing his
buddies he’s done swinging, they let go of him, and he lunges for the machine
again with bat in hand, as if remembering one more past insult that must be
accounted for.

June 4, 2008

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