Anxiety in the Church of High Liberalism

They shuddered when Sen. Obama reached out to evangelicals.  They didn't like it when he told the evangelicals, in a line made famous by Ronald Reagan, that while he understood they couldn't endorse him, he endorsed them. 

They wished he'd opposed the FISA bill.  They didn't like it when he endorsed conservative Democrat, John Barrow, in a Georgia Congressional primary over progressive State Sen. Regina Thomas.  They weren't too crazy about Sen. Obama opting out of public financing.  Now, David Sirota thinks that Sen. Obama is too cozy with Wall Street at the expense of Main Street.

This is but the beginning.  If Obama gets elected, he won't get us entirely out of Iraq, at which point the High Liberals will start to flake in larger numbers, no doubt proclaiming a pox on the Obama house as they do so.  Alas, they will have finally figured out, he's a politician after all.  The irony is that it will be precisely those of us who don't get stars in our eyes at the mention of his name who will step up to support him.   

Comments

[redrabbit]

It will be very difficult not to say "I told you so."

[lillianjane]

So we should all say it, and frequently!

[lillianjane]

So we should all say it, and frequently!

[Hypatia]

I for one am not going to step up and support him on the FISA bill. Surely you don't have to be a High Liberal to see the problem with FISA?

I did like Obama's statement, which could be summed up as 'Trust me.' Rather like his whole campaign, in fact.

I swung by Obama's web site and the stuff on campaign finance reform got erased faster than Father Pfleger.

[John Petty]

Obviously, Pelosi et. al. think this will help in the fall election. We'll see.

[Hypatia]

I note that my earlier post seems to imply that I would like to get rid of FISA. This is definitely not the case.

[John Petty]

Understood!