Political musing (feel free to skip)

[flewellyn]

Following the primaries, I'm still very much undecided whether I want to support Obama or not. Both my first choice (Edwards) and my second (Clinton) have come out in support of him, and that says a lot to me.

But then I hear about stuff like this, in which protestors and dissenters at an Obama rally were systematically excluded and dismissed by his campaign's operatives. And it makes me wonder...isn't this Bush stuff? If Obama means to unify the party, how come his campaign's actions seem geared toward unity through purge?

Very discomfitting. If Obama turns out to be Bush Lite, then my choices at the ballot box will be Bush Lite or Bush Redux. Not much of a choice, is it?

Comments

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Moneyed lobbyists? Yeah, li'l bit.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on what they lobby for. I have no love for the NRA, Focus on the Family, or their ilk. On the other hand, NOW and NARAL and the ACLU? They have all my support.

They're all lobbyists, though.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Their bribes are acceptable to me only in that they balance out the right's. But yes, I'm against bribes.

It's also ludicrous to suggest that Clinton has only taken money from our lovely lefty lobbyists. If that were the case, I would honestly have significantly less of a problem with it.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I don't like money in politics either, but castigating Clinton for taking money from lobbyists, when everybody else does it too, is just silly.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

I (and lucretiasheart) was referring to her similarity to bad politicians, not her difference from anyone else.