The Moderate Liberal

Nearly 8 years of George W. (the W standards for Worst) Bush has taken a huge toll on the middle class and working Americans.  The Wall Street Journal today discusses how educated middle class Americans are dealing with the collapse of their living standards.

 Can America deal with another 8 years of failed Republican “trickle down” bullshit?  After 8 years of Bush W., and way too many recent years of  Republican executive leadership, its clear that Republicans are simply waging war on the middle class.  Their goal is to supress wages, deny benefits, and push off a disproportionate amount of the tax burden onto the middle class and their children.

Just look at the results:

Decline dollar value

Declining stock market

Two income families are the norm

Real wages have been supressed for decades

Social Security has been raided and inflation adjusted payouts to seniors wanes each year

It’s clear to us now: the Republican vision of America is one in which the rich get richer on the backs of the middle class. McCain will simply continue this proud Republican legacy.

My liberal buddy Jason from Up North in Canada called today.  He’s a Clinton backer. He thinks Obama is not long on details.

I tried to explain that after 8 years of being completely uninspired by Bush that Obama’s lofty visioning exercise is exactly what I (and many other Americans) needed to get me back in the political saddle. I think Jason feels that Clinton is a known quantity, and Canadians always seemed to like the Clintons.

My view is that American can do better than to recycle the good ol’ days of the Clinton administration. I’m ready for a break with the past. I am ready for woman President, don’t slap me as a misogynist. Nothing against Hillary, except that she’s married to Bill. No, I can’t separate the two.    Hill would bring in a plethora of old Clinton administrators; one only need to look at her campaign staff and advisors to understand this.  With Clinton, we’ve been there, done that. Time to move on.

America needs a real change, change we can believe in.  America needs a new vision. America needs Obama.  What Canada needs, I could give a shit (just kidding Jason). 

Jason frets that McCain is getting lots of “positive” spin up in Canada from all of his personal appearances. He notes that McCain actually seems likeable.

Superdelegates, why are you letting this drag on? Pick the winner and lets get on with it.  Time is awastin’.

But just look at what Obama has done. He has activated millions of new voters. He has shown that he can raise money by the hundreds of millions, not from giant donars, but from tiny little people. That is grassroots support that Clinton has not been able to build in her 30 years.  Clinton and McCain represent yesteryear politics.  Obama is the future, and the future is now.

Get used to it, Jason!

You have to read this.

I love it.  The Obama camp is being criticized by McCain because Ed Schultz, a liberal talk radio host, had the gall to call out McCain on his “warmongering.”  Schultz has no part in Obama’s campaign, and does not speak for the campaign.

With all of the conservative criticism of Liberal Talk Radio, why should McCain even bother?

The Obama camp’s reaction was predictable. A spokesperson said, “”John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such. He’s a supporter of a war that Senator Obama believes should have never been authorized and never been waged,” she said.

To me, those comments sound like the pot calling the kettle a warmonger.

The truth hurts, and McCain knows it.Truth is, he is a warmonger. Schultz should stick to his guns. His label of McCain is accurate.

Elizabeth Edwards, aparently tired of not seeing the issues discussed that are important to her and millions of other Americans, has decided to directly take on Rebuplican candidate John McCain’s health care proposal (or lack thereof).  Read it here.

Elizabeth’s action begs the question: where the hell is John Edwards?  Why hasn’t he come out and endorsed Obama, so that the Democratic Party can move on with the business of defeating McCain? Yes, Hillary has every right to continue… blah, blah.  But while she is delaying the inevitable, Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” campaign is clearly in full swing.

Elizabeth, respectfully, if you want to hear more substantitive debates in the presidential political discourse then please ask John to  throw his support and 18 delegates to Obama. Tell John to demand Hillary to step out of the race.  If you must, then also tell John, ‘No sex’ until he endorses Obama!

John Edwards did the right thing three months ago by stepping out of the contest and making a serious horse race out of what might have been a coronation.

Its now time for John Edwards to do the right thing again by endorsing Obama.  Do right by us, John! You always have.

Since Edwards graciously left the race for the Democratic nomination, I quickly and easily transferred my support to Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

I get asked frequently: despite my contempt for a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton presidential succession, would I vote for HRC if she gets the nomination? The answer is Yes, I sadly, angrily, would.

But thats about all you can count on me for: it won’t be a vote for HRC as much as a vote against a conservative supreme court.

My enthusiasm will not transfer from BHO to HRC. I won’t be knocking on doors or driving little old ladies from Dem neighborhoods to the polling places. The extradinary money flow from my checking account to BHO will not transfer to HRC. It will be very difficult to put aside the hard feelings that she is inspiring… some very serious outreach will be required. I’ll cast my vote, but I won’t “believe we can” win this election in my heart with HRC. My expectations would be very low. My interest in the Democratic party would likely wane markedly. I would look forward to a challenge within the Democratic party in 4 years.

Hillary’s recent and well publicized praise of John McCain’s foreign policy credentials at the expense of Obama (and indeed, at her own expense) is just more proof that she is the wrong nominee. What a pathetic, mean spirited, stupid slash-and-burn strategy. If her underhanded tactics work and she is the nominee, this will come back to haunt her deny her hte presidency.  But its about what I have come to expect from Clinton, so in my heart I am not surprised.

 It appears that in her desperation to, not just defeat but destroy Obama, she seems to be courting a VP spot on the McCain ticket. She is doing McCain’s campaigning for him.

We’ve long derided the Clinton candidacy as not the best that the Democratic party has to offer. We were greatly sadden with the passing of each strong democratic voice during the campaign:  Kucinich, Dodd, Biden, and then most sadly, John Edwards.  Although the time for punditry has passed on John Edwards, I strongly believe in the man’s integrity. That he quit his presidential bid when he did shows his great concern for America. Edwards knew his supporters would move directly to Obama, and within days Obama had pulled even and then passed Clinton in total delegates, primaries won and votes cast.

Obama and America owe a great debt to John Edwards.  Edwards has possibly, single handedly, spared America a divisive Clinton presidency. John Edwards has possibly single handedly saved the Democratic party.

We’ve said it all along:  America can do better than Billary Clinton.   Billary Clinton cannot win.  Her candidacy would destroy the New Democratic Coalition which is made up of moderate liberals, and liberal republicans. This New Democratic Coalition will sweep Obama into office just as quickly as it will sweep Clinton aside.

 Clinton must end her candidacy now, for the good of America and the Democratic Party.