Continuing his theme during the campaign about trying to figure out which set of Obama supporters would turn out to be “the rubes,” Glenn Reynolds shrugs his shoulders at Sully. Loudly:
ANDREW SULLIVAN FIGURES OUT WHO THE RUBES ARE: “I have a sickeningly familiar feeling in my stomach, and the feeling deepens with every interaction with the Obama team on these issues. They want them to go away. They want us to go away. . . . Yesterday, Robert Gibbs gave non-answer after non-answer on civil unions and Obama’s clear campaign pledge to grant equal federal rights for gay couples; non-answer after non-answer on the military’s remaining ban on honest servicemembers. What was once a categorical pledge is now – well let’s call it the toilet paper that it is.”
In entirely unrelated news, Obama has also flip-flopped on releasing the “torture” photos. Meet the new boss, yada yada. All of this was entirely predictable. And yet, his election was a matter of fierce moral urgency about which there could be no serious disagreement . . .
More at the link; I don’t have the heart. Poor Sully! I stopped reading him years ago, and I still don’t have the stomach. But . . . poor thing.
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Perhaps Obama has realized that he needs to run against a Republican Congress in 2012 if he is to have any chance of re-election. Therefore he de-energizes the Democratic base for 2010.
Or there is one set of rulers and whoever wins the presidency is expected to continue carrying out their agenda.
Once we start thinking like that, we are dead. Even if it feels like an existential exercise, one must continue trying to “throw the bums out.”
Of COURSE they will continue to create more bums, and co-opt real people into being bums. But that’s part of the game. You know who rules the earth, right? That force will not retreat in this time or in this dimension, or most certainly in the realm of politics.
Stuff the conspiracy theories. The simple explanation is the right one. Obama is begginning the realize that BUSH WAS RIGHT about a great many things. The left identified a number of target groups and manufactured a number of issues to rile them up and vote for them. Now these issues turn out to have real-world problems behind them that require more than sanctimonious posing. Sullivan and a few million other people fell for the sanctimonious poseur. They were fools. But don´t worry, they will be fools again.