Proudly Democratic
I’m biased. Ideologically, I’m a moderate liberal. But I’m a partisan Democrat to the core. And tonight, Barack Obama made me feel prouder to be a Democrat than I’ve felt in a long time.
His speech was so much different than others he’s given. It wasn’t post-partisan or rhetorically effusive, though it certainly had its moments.
It was a fighter’s speech.
It was indignant at George W. Bush and the damage he’s done to America.
It hurled righteous anger at John McCain for questioning his patriotism and taking the campaign into the gutter.
It spelled out a progressive policy agenda that he and Hillary Clinton advanced for so long, but this time with a level of detail completely missing from Obama’s speeches in the past.
Pat Buchanan just called it deeply centrist.
Andrew Sullivan deemed it the best case for liberalism since John F. Kennedy.
I just call it the best Democratic speech in my entire life.
6 Responses to “Proudly Democratic”
Tonight, Barrack Obama made this moderate conservative, prouder to be a Republican than I've felt in a long time.
Huhhhh??
Leonidas, would you care to expand, explain, share?
Drawing contrasts will do that. I'd rather Obama take his stands and defend the Democratic Party than reach for a non-existent post-partisan void.
Almost as proud as when Bush declared,”Mission accomplished” Leonidas?
Thanks for being the only rational response I've gotten from Moderaqte Voice
readers, after all the Obama maniac trolls and their assertions about me not
being informed, dwelling on conservative sights and not in the real world,
its nice to see a rational, e-mail.
The reason I'm proud to be a Republican after the Obama speech is that I
believe in allowing people to pick themselves up without government
interference, after Obama's speech it is clear that he isn't of the Joe
Biden Mama school of going and punching the bully in the nose, but rather
someone who looks to government to solve everything with a new taxpayer
funded program. Once more his speech, though promising to be otherwise,
dwelt on rhetoric and vague statements and had little meat in them, and what
meat there was distorted..
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/factche…
Am I proud about the last 8 years and the Bush administration? Certainly
not and I cheered the Democratic victories in 1006 thinking that without
control of Congress the Bush administration would be reigned in. But what
happened? Not a whole lot more than speechmking. The democrats caved in on
issue after issue where I could have supported them as a moderate
conservativve. With the exception of bringing some congressional hearings
on a few issues, they got less done than was achieved before and proved hat
Nancy Pelosi was no better than Tom Delay. There is a great need for more
moderates in both parties to be in office, the McCain ticket offers this
with the most noted bi-partisan achiever in Congress at the top of the
ticket, and now he is backed with a VP who has a history of bringing down
corrupt officials within her own party. Put that up against Obama and Biden
the 11th and 8th most partisan senators according to their voting records
(Obama voted with the democratic party 96% of the time, Biden 96.6% / McCain
was at 83% if your curious ranking the 65th most partisan) neither of which
has had any significant bi-partisan reform sucess.
Yes I am proud to be a Republican for the first time in 8 years, thanks to
the moderate and reform minded GOP ticket this time around.
You can agree or disagree with my anaysis and I'm cool with that, come to
your own decision, but you asked why so I'm letting you know, and I'm not
really interested in having any debate wars with folks via e-mail, I usually
block senders who want to do so, but since you actually had good manners and
asked a legitimate question I chose not to do this in your case. If you
want to ask about something or some view of mine, I'm fine with that, but if
you want to try to throw some talking points at me either for or against a
candidate without any real desire other than push a talking point, I have no
time for that. The only reason why I have listed my “talking points” are
that they are in direct response to the question you asked. I prefer not to
clutter my e-mail correspondence with political yak yak and save that for
forums and blogs.
regards,
Leonidas
Thanks for taking the time to state your views in such detail, Leonidas.
While I disagree on most issues (I do agree on this one: “The democrats
caved in on
issue after issue where I could have supported them as a moderate “), I
appreciate your views and opinion.
Sorry it has taken me so long to answer
Dorian.