The Daily Background
| “Honestly you are like Scientologists.”
by Arlen Parsa
Wow, some candidate supporters are really, really obnoxious. Case in point from this Edwards supporter:
Obama’s supporters have chosen to vilify the former President, one of the few heroes of the Democratic Party’s recent past for their own political expediency.
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As an Edwards supporter, yes we are still around and we’re not going away, I can only say that I could not under any circumstances support Obama in a general election. Personally I wouldn’t want the Democratic Party tainted by the train wreck that an Obama Presidency would be. Not to mention that I think him a fraud, more corrupt than the Clintons, naive, insincere, and hypocritical. And that’s before I even talk about policy positions that are clearly to the right of both Edwards and Clinton. Perhaps Obama can improve on the former but on the latter he has drawn his line in the sand. He’s not a progressive. His appeal to independents basically demonstrates that. They don’t care for the partisanship because they are by definition non-partisan. But we are partisan and we believe not only in our ideas which were there in the 1980s contrary to popular belief but also because partisanship works. Ask FDR or LBJ or even Ronald Reagan. If they were successful it was because they were partisan not bipartisan. They forced the other side to capitulate. If you can’t see this it is because to outsiders the Obama camp has all the makings of a cult. Honestly you are like Scientologists.
Read more of this… shall we say… factually-uninclined rant here. It focuses almost entirely on the dead-end Rezko story, which the author ranter uses tries to use as an allegory for how Barack Obama is apparently the worst person who ever walked the earth and how Democrats shouldn’t vote for him even in the general election.
Every candidate has skeletons and Rezko is probably not the most ugly of Obama’s. I agree with the fellow Edwards supporter that Obama’s campaign is shallow and his true interests are corporate, but that’s not a reason to completely disqualify him in a general election. I’d still rather take Obama over any Republican, save Ron Paul.