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Obama in Iowa
What a night last night! amazing!
100,000 new voters! for Democrats in a white state for a black candidate! I have been waiting all my adult life for such a thing.
More than health care, the environment, or the way, as of election night in Iowa the issue has become the "movement" that has exploded around Obama. The Obama campaign has become more of a movement than a campaign, and this is profound. If this can be moved to New Hampshire, then the sky is the limit. This could be a real transformational moment.
There is still the nagging question of why his policy proposal for health care is not better, and the even bigger question of exactly how his "neither blue state nor red state but united states" thing will play out, in terms of what compromises he is really willing to make, and who will actually get a seat at his table. But all of that is secondary now. and at any rate, the more left the movement underneath him goes, the more it will pull him in the same direction.
I am planning on spending a good deal of time volunteering for Obama.
I am also very happy about Huckabee as well. Yes, he is awful on gays, and abortion, and a long list of things. His economics are quack. And I certainly would never ever want him to be president. But he is not going to be president, so we don’t have to worry about that. Nevertheless, his victory is a major development. Since 1980 (all of my adult life), American politics has been heavily skewed by the alliance between evangelicals, big business, and the far right of the Republican Party. This coalition has profoundly shaped American politics for nearly 30 years. Huckabee is the end of that politics. He is an evangelical with populist economics, and he won with no money and no party support. He represents the fact that the coalition of evangelicals, big business, and the far right has run out of gas. Huckabee genuinely cares about class. And hey, why shouldn't Christians care about class?!? Combined with recent evangelical activism on global warming, this is really a sea change for the country.
Hooray!
When was the last time I had something this big to cheer about in this country? Nixon’s resignation comes to mind, nearly 40 years ago…
100,000 new voters! for Democrats in a white state for a black candidate! I have been waiting all my adult life for such a thing.
More than health care, the environment, or the way, as of election night in Iowa the issue has become the "movement" that has exploded around Obama. The Obama campaign has become more of a movement than a campaign, and this is profound. If this can be moved to New Hampshire, then the sky is the limit. This could be a real transformational moment.
There is still the nagging question of why his policy proposal for health care is not better, and the even bigger question of exactly how his "neither blue state nor red state but united states" thing will play out, in terms of what compromises he is really willing to make, and who will actually get a seat at his table. But all of that is secondary now. and at any rate, the more left the movement underneath him goes, the more it will pull him in the same direction.
I am planning on spending a good deal of time volunteering for Obama.
I am also very happy about Huckabee as well. Yes, he is awful on gays, and abortion, and a long list of things. His economics are quack. And I certainly would never ever want him to be president. But he is not going to be president, so we don’t have to worry about that. Nevertheless, his victory is a major development. Since 1980 (all of my adult life), American politics has been heavily skewed by the alliance between evangelicals, big business, and the far right of the Republican Party. This coalition has profoundly shaped American politics for nearly 30 years. Huckabee is the end of that politics. He is an evangelical with populist economics, and he won with no money and no party support. He represents the fact that the coalition of evangelicals, big business, and the far right has run out of gas. Huckabee genuinely cares about class. And hey, why shouldn't Christians care about class?!? Combined with recent evangelical activism on global warming, this is really a sea change for the country.
Hooray!
When was the last time I had something this big to cheer about in this country? Nixon’s resignation comes to mind, nearly 40 years ago…
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Posted on 08 Jan 2008 by bobostertag
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