All this talk of overtures and olive branches for the right-wing...

[Zenlitened]

... seems a bit short-sighted, no? A bit premature?

Shouldn't President-Elect Obama be solidifying his progressive support at this point, rather than squandering it?

I mean, it doesn't make sense to be alienating the very people who've just demonstrated a willingness to fight on his behalf. There's lots of fighting still to be done, and I'd think a motivated base would come in handy in the weeks and months ahead.

He's got four years to mollify the right-wingers, if such a thing is even possible. And they'll be a lot easier to persuade, I'd imagine, if he's got a series of of successes and accomplishments he can point to. His base can help with that, in a way the right-wing can't or won't, not yet.
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So why not keep the campaign momentum going, keep the love alive a while longer? Save the overtures and olive branches for later, when it will actually feel like "post-partisanship" rather than a stick in the eye to the very folks who've helped you get this far.

:shrug:

[MUAD_DIB]

1. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

[Zenlitened]

5. That only works if your enemies aren't carrying knives...

... to cut your throat with when they get within reach.

[ananda]

2. It's clear to me that the regressive rightwing..

.. has our Dem leaders by the balls.

C rr uu nn cchhh

[Zenlitened]

7. Not just Dem leaders. A lot of DUers...

... are sounding like battered spouses, hoping that if they can just be good, they won't get hit again. :(

[DJ13]

3. No argument from me, but the outrage shouldnt be about a preacher

The outrage should come from Obama hiring the same financial thugs that abused their positions in the Clinton administration to fix those the problems their prior decisions created.

[Zenlitened]

6. The outrage is there for the financial thugs, it really is.

I think that's what makes this preacher thing feel like part of a pattern, rather than a random WTF sort of thing.

[QC]

4. The election's over. Progressives can safely be locked up again

in the attic.