What Blue Gal Said

Posted by Kevin K. on 12/01/09 at 01:52 PM • Permalink

Categories: Politics • Election '08 • St. McSame • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • PUMAs • Poliblogs • War In Error •

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Thanks for the linky love! and please tell me how to make technorati show me my links. I’m pullin’ my hair out over here.

Comment by Blue Gal on 12/01/09 at 02:09 PM

Well said.

Comment by justlen on 12/01/09 at 02:23 PM

Glad to link to you, BG. You covered a bunch of great points.

Technorati’s a mess lately. I couldn’t find any referrals listed for Rumproast there either. Normally I just find them through SiteMeter or the logs.

Is that what you meant?

Comment by Kevin K. on 12/01/09 at 02:45 PM

Very well said, BG. Thanks. It’s fine, in my view, to disagree with Obama’s Afghanistan plans. But to pretend that this is somehow a “shift right” from what he campaigned on is just nonsensical.

Of course, none of the major Dem contenders came out for single-payer either, but that doesn’t stop some from also claiming his lack of support for that as a major “betrayal” as well. Some people don’t know how to operate in the world unless “aggrieved” is part of their emotional DNA.

Comment by Oblomova on 12/01/09 at 02:56 PM

Blue Gal—I really enjoyed your piece. Hope my comment there isn’t out of line.

Comment by Glix on 12/01/09 at 03:11 PM

Glix thanks for commenting at my place…much appreciated!

And Kevin I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds the new Technorati to be unusable.

And love that, Oblamova

Some people don’t know how to operate in the world unless “aggrieved” is part of their emotional DNA.

Comment by Blue Gal on 12/01/09 at 03:16 PM

“May I work for peace, resist this President when he deserves it, and make sure that whatever I do as a blogger or activist, it is not about me. The strongest weapons in our arsenal, I think, are patience and humility.”
I’m with Blue Gal 100% on this.

However,I could be more supportive of the troop increase if things were the same as they were during the campaign. Karzai won the election by fraud,his brother has been revealed a crook who threatens reporters,civilian casualties are up in 2009. So doing something different than what he said wouldn’t be a flip-flop,but a reaction to a change of the status quo.

But don’t count me among those screaming “betrayal”. I’m pretty far left,I didn’t vote for Obama thinking he was Howard Zinn in disguise,but because he was an improvement over the recent dem leadership(he still is). I agree with Blue Gal that Obama’s much better than Clinton or McPalin would’ve been regarding military interventions.

I hadn’t seen Blue Gal’s blog before,I like what I’ve seen so far even if I somewhat disagree. I’m bookmarking it when I finish posting this,sorry for the long comment.

Comment by JasonM on 12/01/09 at 03:18 PM

Excellent point, Jason. And thanks for bookmarking my blog…I’ve been at it for five years last November. Always glad to have smart readers who see an additional facet I’d missed…

Comment by Blue Gal on 12/01/09 at 05:26 PM

Heh ... did some peeps in the lefty blogosphere actually think going into Afghanistan was a “good” idea before they thought going into Iraq was a “bad” idea?

Did they actually care about “getting” Bin Laden and support the military or CIA doing it?

If so, the ones screaming escalation! betrayal! are not only hard of hearing, but also really intellectually inconsistent.