Wednesday, September 06, 2006
(4:26 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
"Barack Obama got rid of ugly overages"
I just received a letter from Barack Obama, who apparently thinks of me as a "friend." He says something that confuses me:George Bush uses bold rhetoric and makes big promises when he's in front of the television lights. But time and again, when real leadership is needed, his actions haven't matched his rhetoric and he has failed to live up to his promises.Wait, what? We want to force Bush to follow through on his policy proposals? I'm pretty sure I can't be counted upon to help with that. This seems like a classic example of the consequences of The Incompetence Critique -- Democrats don't have their own positive ideas, but promise to carry out, in a competent and nuanced way, the ideas the Republicans came up with. It's a brilliant way of turning politics into the equivalent of choosing between cell phone plans.
And now we have just 71 days left before Election Day when Americans will decide if they want a Democratic Senate to make George Bush live up to his promises.
Can I count on you to help?
And this is the rising star of the Democratic Party, apparently. This is the kind of incoherent nonsense we get in the big fundraising letter from our next big hope.
[NOTE: Edited for clarity.]
