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Under new management?

By Lucius - Jul 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am EDT

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The Obama campaign seems to have become more 'managed' now that he is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.

During the primary he would give a speech and people would flock to listen. He was on his own, not supported by the Party. He was supported by people who liked what he said. We contributed and organized and voted. He appealed to us because his message was about transcending partisan party politics and do-nothing at best, and tragically mismanaged at worse, Government. He was inspirational because he held out the hope that We the People could change the Government DESPITE the Establishment, the Party, the entrenched Interests. We weren't going to vote for him because he was a Democrat, but because he said he would transform the Democratic Party into something We had in mind. A shift in Paradigm. Change. That is what we voted for.

But now, the Party is in charge of his campaign. The Corporation. The Obama family now poses for pictures waving little flags (so much for the flag pin hullabaloo). Obama has to give press confrences to clarify his "evolving" platform. Suddenly, it is no longer Senator Obama who wants my vote, but the Party; and just as suddenly Obama is charged with "pandering" and "two-stepping" on some issues. (Bob Herbert, NYTimes, 7/8/08).

Now he has the Party Establishment supporting him, and We (secularlists? progressives? liberals? greens? alternative types?....) seem to be taken for granted as Buzsh inspired "faith-based initiatives" suddenly become a plank of the Obama candidacy (or is it part of a Party platform that Barack finds conducive to his election?)

If Barack Obama is the Democratic Party, let's hope it does not take those who rallied to support him for granted as Party politics comes to the fore and reform politics fades into the background. Indeed, some of the statements and positions he has apparently taken in recent days certainly come as a surprize to those who supported him in the primary. Can Obama really support immunity for un-Constitutional telecom activities? Smells like dirty politics to me.

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