Out Of Touch
That is the new Democratic Party logo – a light blue block “D” surrounded by a dark blue “O”. They may claim it is a circle, but it’s an “O”. The Democratic National Committee site features this new logo, and the Obama campaign logo, which is unprecedented. It is rather obvious that one is the subsidiary of the other, and the logo makes it plain who’s in charge.
We now know that what Robert Gibbs, the President’s press secretary, said in an interview in early August reflects the President’s attitude towards the base of the Democratic Party.
I originally saw the charming quote at the Agonist in Sean Paul’s post, Obama To Liberals: Don’t Blame Me, Blame Yourself.
But most people, like Steve Bates, Digby, Susie Madrak, and Randall Kohn at Corrente are working off of Glenn Greenwald’s post at Salon.
Barack Obama is under the delusion that the entire Democratic Party works like the Chicago party, i.e. once you have been selected everyone closes ranks and supports whatever stupid thing you do. If he thinks that the base of the party will vote in November after the way they have been marginalized and berated by the first two years of this administration, he is in for a shock. While individual members of Congress have fought for their supporters, the majorities in Congress have been wasted by the White House.
People are hurting and this administration hasn’t helped them. They found the will to help Wall Street, but Main Street has been characterized has a bunch of whiners because nothing has been done that would help them.
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OD? What, the Democratic Party has become the party of dead heroin addicts?!
– Badtux the Amazed Penguin
That would certainly explain their economic policies, Badtux.