This is a post I wrote for a group on Facebook called “Progressives (Critically) for Obama”. It was created by a guy apparently for people who call themselves progressives and yet who still (despite Obama’s strong centrist position) still support Barack Obama for President. It was in a response to a post the author sent to my mail inbox there which complained about Obama moving to the center and not being the kind of progressive he should be, and potentially picking a VP choice who is also a centrist Democrat, like Evan Bayh. But it is also a response to people in general complaining that Obama is such a dissapointment, and a potential feeling of buyers remorse, and whatnot that is being engendered by a news media that is suffering a little withdrawal after the binge that was this spring, and the few people in this country that seem to believe that Hillary Clinton should still be the nominee because she was somehow “cheated” out of something that was her right by a fellow who did not “wait his turn”. We all know who these folks are: They are the people that Clinton herself has organized a delegate whip team to stand in front of them when they begin chanting from the floor or blowing kazoos(?) at the convention or whatever.

Anyway… Here is the post. For progressives only (the right is not allow to know that the left is eating itself alive, so if you don’t like Obama because he is “too liberal” then tune out now, please.)

(this post is mainly a response directed toward the messages I got in my Faceboook inbox from the owner of this group concerning Obama’s VP selection)

As a socialist, and a former member of the Socialist Party who swore up and down that I would never support a Democrat, I have resigned from the SP and have thrown my support behind a Democrat. And apparently, one who is a little more conservative than most of those folks on the progressive left would like him to be.

I got one thing to say about that: Too damned bad. Read the rest of this entry »