Reply #26: False Expectations...

[KharmaTrain]

People have built up Barak to be a cross between MLK, RFK, Wellstone and every civil rights and liberal icon of the pats decade. That's not who he is and not what got him elected. He was known here in Illinois as a moderate/centrist and one who worked with the other side...that's how he built up his reputation and power base. No matter how blue a state Illinois has become, he wouldn't have won as widely has he did across the state if he didn't have moderate views that appealed downstate.

In blogostan, he has become some kind of character that was supposed to sweep into Washington and transform the place overnight. He was supposed to rocket up the leadership ladder and past the existing vested interests in the Senate and inside the beltway and slay all who stood in his way. When he didn't quite turn out to be that "new kind of Democrat" (whatever that might be), he's now "selling out" or a disappointment. That's cause you fell in love with a media image, you haven't studied the man and seen how he's operated.

I'm not sure what you're expecting from Democrats as long as they don't have the muscle to control any lever of government. Picking fights with whose a "real Democrat" or not just feeds into a defeatist attitude where annimosity towards other Democrats supercede the big picture and important goal of getting rid of the Repugnicans in November.