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December 8, 2008

I’ll Have the Potage With the Outrage du Jour

by AltHippo @ 3:04 pm. Filed under Uncategorized, 2008 Elections

I really have to wonder what voices in Steve Hildebrand’s head told him that this Huffington Post post was a good idea.

Greg Sargent observes, correctly, I believe that: (TPM)

As Ben Smith notes, the criticism of Obama from the left has actually been pretty mild, and the notion of a left “angry” about Obama’s “centrism” and “pragmatism” is largely a media creation. The key point here is that Hildebrand seemed willing to feed that creation by perpetuating the false idea that the “left wing of our party” doesn’t want Obama to be “pragmatic” and harbors a set of wild-eyed priorities that are somehow at odds with what Obama views as our major challenges.

There has been a number of stories written about anger at Obama from “The Left.” When I read one of these pieces, I have to shake my hate, and mutter “they’re they go again.” I do run into these fictitiously angry bloggers at sites like Open Left, and while I might not describe them as “sated pussycats” I feel safe in describing them as pretty happy about the state of political life in our fair fictitious city. Certainly, none of them allude to theories of primary stealing, or a conspiracy involving Obama and the DNC.

The PUMAs and their supporters may indeed be angry at Obama, but they’re hardly card carrying progressives. And, to be fair I see the PUMAs as borderline insane, while their supporters I see as just reflexively negative.

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