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NYC Gym Pundits Worry Over Impending Obama Nomination
LINK TO FULL STORY AT Political Cortex
EXCERPT FROM FULL PIECE:
But, the instigator felt that Clinton had perhaps learned a lesson in humility,
since she'd long been held up as a shoe in, only to realize that much of the
nation was not in the mood for a coronation of those individuals deemed next in
line. The instigator worried that Clinton's image had been so diminished and
that in the end destroyed the truly populist progressive hidden agenda lying
beneath the political baggage.
So, when seeking to challenge his Obama friend, he asked him about the
lopsided Clinton victory in West Virginia and the other wins in Pennsylvania and
places like Ohio, places in America where progressives have work to do and trust
to win, where aggressive attempts to prove to the economically disenfranchised
or higher education denied and affordable universal health care starved people
that government can do good things for people, the Obama supporter cut deep.
"In the first place, those people who support her tend to be less
educated and reactionary, they always respond to that right wing thinking," and
then he said "I think he (Obama) and this new movement needs to marginalize
them."
At which point the Obama supporter pointed to one of the more unethical
moments in American political history.
"It's still amazing to me, that the Republicans were able to use that
Swift Boat shit to derail a man like John Kerry" he said noting the sleazy
character assassination attempts made by the infamous Swift Boat ads in 2004.
True enough, but the political anger towards those voters outside places
like the island we at Crunch gym call home, Manhattan, caught the instigator off
guard.
What exactly did he mean by marginalize them?
Unable, for whatever reason to admit his offense at such a comment, since
hypocrisy would be the self describing term, because he too, had expressed
similar sentiments back when he participated in simplistic Red State Blue State
thinking, when us verses them became a source of his own political and regional
rage during the early days of the Iraqi invasion, when people and relatives in
his home state of Alabama reacted to 9/11 and its horrific outcomes with what
appeared to be different emotions, when he honestly believed that he and others
in his adopted city saw the world through completely different lenses, so the
instigator just nodded his head, listening.
In truth, the instigator had long wondered, why he had not hopped on the
Obama bandwagon of spoken idealism and hope, especially since he too, had at
times viewed Hillary Clinton as an opportunistic leader who spoke to the
direction of the wind?











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