This is scary
My father would turn over in his grave if he knew I was doing this, but this is he second time I'm creating a link in this blog to the writing of Pat Buchanan. Here he makes an interesting point about the possible Sheehan effect on the Democratic Party
posted by Dumplingeater @ 8/19/2005
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Hmmm. I noticed that you said that one of the candidates will make it clear that he or she didn't vote to support the war INDEFINITELY. I have to wonder if you are playing with words here. If you are, I think you're hoping on too fine a line of distinction to be of much value.
Do you think there will be a candidate who will unequivocally state that he or she feels the war was wrong and should never have been engaged? If so, don't you think that having such a candidate will cause problems for the Democratic Party, whose power brokers have been standing around with their thumbs up their asses even as significant percentages of the American public are becoming quite disillusioned with the Bush's policies re Iraq? All of the mainline candidates that seem to be lined up for 2008 also lined up to pass out the kool-aid the Bush administration was passing out to the American public during the run up to the war.
I wonder if you read the articles linked on this blog under the "Strategic Class" headlines -- in particular this article: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050718&s=schwenninger
which does a very good job of describing the "neoliberals" who are running the Democratic party.
Allow me to quote:
These exhortations are particularly troubling because they come at a time when the Administration itself is being forced to rethink significant parts of its post-9/11 foreign policy and just when much of the nation has reopened its mind to a larger set of international concerns. Rather than seizing the moment to point us in a more constructive direction, much of the Democratic leadership is reinforcing a foreign policy agenda that has divided us from the world, inserted us more deeply into an Islamic civil war and drained us politically and economically, all the while distracting us from many of the real challenges to our security and well-being. The party--indeed, the nation--deserves a better alternative.
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