http://www.jon22.net/the-cool-candidate/ The Website of Jonathan Dobres Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.jon22.net/the-cool-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-4224 Damian Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:43:17 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/?p=551#comment-4224 I am absolutely thrilled that Obama is finally, officially the presumptive nominee. I pretty much found Hillary Clinton an unacceptable candidate as soon as people started talking about her running, due primarily to her refusal to admit that her Iraq War vote was a mistake. It seemed very Bush-esque of her. The supposed inevitableness of her candidacy rubbed me the wrong way as well. I had many reasons to dislike Bush in 2000, but among the qualities I found most distasteful about him was his apparent attitude that it was his turn to be President. Of course, Hillary Clinton is not the only Democratic candidate to have that quality in common with him, as it was something that I didn't care for about Gore and Kerry either. Ultimately, what I'm really happy about is that someone has finally pried control of the party out of the cold, undead hands of the DLC... "New Democrats," they were called 16 years ago. Much like New Coke was a Coke product that tried to be Pepsi, New Democrats were Democrats that tried to be Republicans. I am so glad that someone finally put Coke Classic back on the shelves. I am absolutely thrilled that Obama is finally, officially the presumptive nominee. I pretty much found Hillary Clinton an unacceptable candidate as soon as people started talking about her running, due primarily to her refusal to admit that her Iraq War vote was a mistake. It seemed very Bush-esque of her. The supposed inevitableness of her candidacy rubbed me the wrong way as well. I had many reasons to dislike Bush in 2000, but among the qualities I found most distasteful about him was his apparent attitude that it was his turn to be President. Of course, Hillary Clinton is not the only Democratic candidate to have that quality in common with him, as it was something that I didn’t care for about Gore and Kerry either. Ultimately, what I’m really happy about is that someone has finally pried control of the party out of the cold, undead hands of the DLC… “New Democrats,” they were called 16 years ago. Much like New Coke was a Coke product that tried to be Pepsi, New Democrats were Democrats that tried to be Republicans. I am so glad that someone finally put Coke Classic back on the shelves.

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