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]

There are good arguments for either side, IMO. Personally I prefer a person who has moving-and-shaking experience but who has had a limited amount of time to become corrupted by the political system. Washington experience isn't the only kind of experience that matters (or else Clinton wouldn't be able to claim everything she's done since law school as experience—which I think is perfectly legitimate, just a bit hypocritical when she won't accept other people's non-Washington experience).