Political Parties
QUICK THOUGHT: Obama's CHANGE is bad for the Democratic Party
Earlier today I tweeted the following:
blogdiva: DUDE! Deeds hurt Deeds. The moron ran as ANTI-Obama! RT @DavidAll: RT @POStqia: Shhh —Don’t Tell Anyone, But Obama Hurt Deeds in Virginia (24 minutes ago from TwitterGadget)
It was a quick quip about how I don't believe Obama hurts Democrats in the way Republicans want everybody to believe. I threw that out there and Michael Turk hit back with the following:
MichaelTurk: @blogdiva This was the Deeds campaign's GOTV mailer, it barely has his name n it:
http://is.gd/4RQsH (10 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva) MichaelTurk: @blogdiva This notion that he tried to distance himself from Obama is bullshit. (21 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva)
MichaelTurk: @blogdiva You are smoking crack! Deeds tethered his entire campaign to Obama. I know, I sat through the commercials. (21 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to blogdiva)
I was going to twitter back a response but I think it merits a quick blog post with a WHAT IF: What if the problem with Obama is NOT that he is a bad politician or a so-so President? What if the problem with Obama is that he won because he sold himself as a third-party candidate? What if the problem with Obama is that he won't be able to be a truly outstanding President unless he stops playing by the Democrats rules? What if the Democratic Party and anybody who has been a willing player can't win with the "Obama Change" formula because they are the "more of the same" that needs to be wiped clean for real change to happen?
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