Check out the great cover of 'The New Yorker'

[existentialist]

12. Well,

It is nice.

I believe that Obama's announcement was, in a moral sense, the right thing to do.

However, I am not necessarily persuaded that it was the right thing to do from a political standpoint.

If it should turn out to cost Obama and the Democrats this election, we're all going to be hurting badly.


A number of prominent Democrats advised Obama, back in March, that if he was going to win this election he had to focus more on economic issues as opposed to social issues. OK, that's largely the Democratic establishment with whom we've had a few issues on occasion, but there are not total fools.

It is not as is we don't have economic issues to raise--not to mention such issues as international relations, immigration, environmental issues, etc.


While this may all be well and good, I don't think its going to win us the election either.


I certainly hope it doesn't hurt us in the election, but I certainly think that to win we must bring our primary focus to other matters.


I apologize if I've offended anyone; that is not my purpose in posting here.