tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799729984652489825.post6666208961133540564..comments2023-10-30T03:51:29.778-04:00Comments on Andrew's Tiki Lounge: Did Obama Gravitate to the Center?Andrew Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17802930191836706635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799729984652489825.post-52175602613562153542008-07-04T05:20:00.000-04:002008-07-04T05:20:00.000-04:00Great post, Andrew. What I find puzzling is that O...Great post, Andrew. What I find puzzling is that Obama began his move to the center at a time when every poll showed him at least 4 points and as much as 12 points (Newsweek poll) ahead of McCain. John Kerry also began waffling when he had everything going for him. It sometimes makes me think the Democrats want to lose.Michael Balterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08311614050647338141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799729984652489825.post-2898650297571196542008-07-03T17:47:00.000-04:002008-07-03T17:47:00.000-04:00I salute your closing remarks about getting Obama ...I salute your closing remarks about getting Obama into the White House and once there, keeping his feet to the fire so that he keeps a <B><I>really</B></I> progressive agenda going. IOW, no "triangulation". <BR/><BR/>As for the Sixties, I lived through them, for better or worse. I remember that there were any number of "crazies" back then. I knew some of them. But you are right. Most of them were motivated by a desire to have the US live up to its ideals, whether those were expressied in various movements like civil rights, feminism, etc, which had their roots then, or dealing fairly and justly with the rest of the world. Which, of course meant that we should <B><I>not</B></I> be wasting the lives of young people in wars that have no purpose. Vietnam had no purpose that I could see, and I regularly protested against it, along with many others. The war in Iraq has no purpose either. and too many good minds have been wasted already in this senseless episode. The "wingnuts" see only the mass demonstrations and the "riots" and the "chaos"(sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, I guess), and want to suppose that this was al that the Sixties was "bout". But they fail to realize that much of what they now take for granted, in a way, e.g. more equal marriages, the acceptance of people like Martin Luther King, are a direct result of those times.<BR/>Anne GAnne Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03045500116098233731noreply@blogger.com