When Obama said he wanted to bridge the divide between blue and red, some of us may have thought that he would be reaching out with his left-leaning hand to the middle and middle-right and pulling them closer to the left.
He never said that.
Perhaps we thought that we would emerge from such a bridging with all of our hopes and issues intact.
I don't believe Obama ever thought that.
Turns out it hurts to walk half way across that bridge. It hurts both sides. That this is the legacy of Republican politics is beside the point. Change means change for us, too. What is now being called the "Netroots," which yesterday was called the "Liberal Blogosphere," is all upset about some of Obama's policies. It has always been upset over his health-care plan, and even though there are many plusses in the FISA bill, and a giant loophole which allows an Obama Justice Department to investigate and prosecute the Telcoms, the blogs are screaming bloody murder over Obama's support for it.
I don't like that he supported it either. I'd like to see the CEO's in the same Federal Prison with many of the Bush administration.
I'd like to see Obama elected President first.
One of Obama's strengths is that he allows us to write our own beliefs on to his bandwagon. It's one of the things that make him such an attractive candidate. Blacks write their history on him, whites understand that he was raised by white folks. And on and on.
It's hard to compromise when you've spent your whole life being uncompromising, but what's the alternative? John McCain? Moving to a self-sustaining farm?
this also appears on huffingtonpost.com
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