From the Dean for President WeblogI can’t believe this [in reference to the capture of Saddam]. I’m crying here. I feel that we now don’t have a chance in this election.
Posted by Carrie B at December 14, 2003 10:03 AM There were many people who posted subsequent to this to tried to console Carrie B. Governor Dean seems now to represent the psychotic wing of the Democratic Party.
Best of the Web ran yesterday — special edition for a special occasion, I guess. I was particularly struck by this:Unlike the Democratic presidential candidates, some grass-roots Dems are unable to contain their gloom over the wonderful news. Here's a post by someone called ikojo at DemocraticUnderground.com (quoted verbatim):I had a horrible feeling in my stomach this morning when I saw that Hussein had been capatured.
This is a BIG boost for * [i.e., Bush]. This will be used in campaign literature. It will make Dems and others who opposed the war look bad as well. I don't regret opposing shrub's war of aggression on Iraq but it sure will be hard for the candidates now, unless they press the Where's Osama issue but since a majority of Americans already believe that Hussein was behind 9/11/01 it hardly matters.
All of a sudden I am not confident he will lose in 2004.
Please boost my confidence in shrub's defeat in November 2004.
Look what he has going for him right now:- Dow over 10,000
- Hussein captured
- The pug CONvention is going to be in NYC around the time of the 9/11 anniversary
- A complacent and compliant right-wing corporate controlled media all too willing to act as an arm of the pentagon and white house press room.
- His administration did what his daddy did not, supposedly captured Hussein.
... Needing encouragement that * can be defeated. Now the stuff about Halliburton overcharging the government will be placed on the back burner as the corporate media celebrates the capture of Hussein.
Not feeling hopeful right now. I have a lot of fear of what he could do if given a second term. Now, what strikes me about this sentiment is the blatantly exclusive focus on politix as usual, rather than on national interest. In theory, with me being an independent-minded type of fellow, the Dems would want me to change my mind about supporting Bush by showing that they're ever so much more competent to look out for the national intest. I can remember when the Dems were the party with fresh ideas, even though they didn't pan out, so I can foresee a day when the Publicans become stale and repetitive. But ikojo isn't out to change my mind — he's fully engrossed in the mechanics of it all. Equally, his mind isn't about to be changed; he's a True Believer™. The Dow's over 10,000, Sammy's caught, the people like him, he's shown himself to trustworthy, loyal, brave, compassionate, kind to puppies and kittens — but ikojo will never be won over. He will never be able to bring himself to say "Bush has been a good president," not even to follow the statement with "but we could do even better." |
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