On Jul 12, 6:29 pm, maff <maf...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Obama et al: serve up the raw meat while taking the high road,
toohttp://scatablog.blogspot.com/2007/07/obama-et-al-serve-up-raw-meat-

Obama is somewhat stuck between the need of Democrats for raw meat and
his long-term strategy of attacking excessive partisanship. Anyone who
does not think most ordinary Democrats want to see today's Republicans
thoroughly discredited and destroyed is naïve. It is not just a few on
the "left" who believe Bush and Cheney and their followers have been a
true scourge that for the good of country and the world, not political
partisanship as such, must be pulled out from the roots.

Democrats in the primary will be voting mainly on who will be the most
effective at taking the Republicans down. Namby-pambyisms and lukewarm
split-the-difference approaches are not what they want to see.
Nevertheless, the "above-the-fray" strategy is a good one for the long
haul because it appeals to a broad swath of the public, including even
many of those aforesaid liberal Democrats who want to see today's
Republicans discredited and destroyed. Obama is an idealist in this
sense, and a brilliant wordsmith. I think he truly believes that he can
find the words and the right tone that will unite all but the most
recalcitrant Republicans around concepts that are essentially liberal
ones. I am enough of an idealist to think he's right, even if it won't
be easy.

Obama is just another foolish statist Democrat