Posted on 02/09/2011 3:32:31 AM PST by Scanian
What to make of the news that the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council -- the vehicle that helped propel Bill Clinton to the presidency in 1992 -- is suspending operations as it ponders an uncertain future?
Conventional wisdom says that the DLC, which favored more business-friendly policies in order to make the party appealing to corporate contributors, could no longer compete in a hyperpartisan political environment. Or that the rabid Howard Dean/Daily Kos "Netroots" wing of the party simply overwhelmed its message. Or that in the age of Obama, as Clinton has faded, Hillary has vanished into the swamps of Foggy Bottom and Council favorite Joe Lieberman has chosen retirement, the DLC was just a dodo bird.
The truth is somewhat different: The DLC lost its political influence and donors because, as part of his well-choreographed and thoroughly dishonest "creep" to the center, President Obama and his media flunkies have co-opted its image and message -- without the slightest intention of implementing its philosophy.
What Obama & Co. learned from Clinton wasn't anything substantive, such as his landmark welfare reform, but the smile and the shoeshine that got him past the shoals of Monica Lewinsky.
In other words, Shinola, not substance.
How else to explain the ludicrous Time magazine cover last week depicting Ronald Reagan with his arm around Obama -- as if the two presidents had anything in common except affability?
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LLS
Yeah, sort of like Bigfoot...always talked about but never proven to exist.
Also applicable to “moderate Muslims.”
Absolutely.
LLS
Obama affable?
they left off the “l”
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