Over at Polis, I’m out of the loop on the controversy, but apparently another weblogger criticized Obama for being listed as an up and comer by the Democratic Leadership Conference. Strangely, the other blogger (Howtown on the Make) links to the Progressive Policy Institute which is the think tank arm of the DLC. There appears to be some inconsistency there to say the least.
The critical thing to understand about the DLC’s identification of Obama is that it means the DLC saw a lot in Obama, not the other way around. I favor several issues that the DLC does such as free trade and an interventionist foreign policy–though I differ on Iraq in many ways so I’m not sure why it has become some scandal that they think Obama is bright and has a future. I’ll say more about the Trib endorsement later, but they pointed out that Obama does think revenues and expenditures should match up–a radical suggestion in Shrub’s Washington right now–and this sort of fiscal responsibility is quite in line with the DLC.
Mr. Arch- It wasn’t that I was crticizing the DLC per se, it was that I was pointing that some aspects of African-American leadership questioned Obama’s ties to it; highlighting the fact that the African-American “vote” is not monolithic.
I want to point out that the guy who runs the blog mentioned, Wiz, who commented above, censors the comments on his site. I made a number of polite and constructive comments, but because I disagree about who should win the Dem Senate primary, they were removed.
It’s a very, very strange blog over there at Howtown. I don’t recommend visiting.
Wilson- I removed all of those comments, but yours were excellent and I sited them as such and went as far as to put them up again last night. I had to remove all of them because I cannot delete selective comments; I was more concerned with what I was saying than what others were saying. If you look, many comments critical of me in past posts have stayed up.