Being new to this blogging thing, but not new to caring about where our country is moving, I found TPM to be an awesome site to follow blow by blow political action and news.

And only recently did I try my hand and fingers at blogging-ever..

So thanks Josh and Mr Sargent for the chance to experience this.

My goal in my illustrious (what two weeks?) career as a blogger was simple:  Prevent a political tragedy masquerading as a political renaissance, from overwhelming the hopes and efforts of so many of my like minded political friends.

But since blogging is more than just throwing words around at the local bucks, I don’t have the time to make this a higher priority than it needs be.

Besides, there are so many others who can say and support my points better than myself.

In my lack of experience in the blogosphere, I suspect suggesting this final site might be a Hatfield McCoy thing, but it doesn’t matter, I don’t think most Obama supporters on this TPM site/blog have the guts or intellectual honesty to really listen to the honest criticism of their appointed king.   

 Including Josh.

But if you do, check this out: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/24/213029/144

And all the best- see you on the other side of November.

Alter

Just finished reading some interesting first hand comments:

"If Barack gets past the primary," said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the New York Times in April of last year, "he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen."

“It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it's at least 11 months since he himself has known precisely the same thing.”

“Pause just for a moment, if only to admire the sheer calculating self-confidence of this. Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he'd one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan.”

http://www.slate.com/id/2187277/pagenum/all/#page_start

Now I realize that in the blogging world, quoting large tracts of an author’s words is not technically blogging. But there is no need to reinvent the wheel, either.

However, it is amazing how this lack of a full and honest appraisal of this candidate continues and is leading the democratic populace to a dangerous point of no return.

He has been a politician for his entire career even when he calculated that he needed to develop some religious or spiritual “street cred” –Audacity of Hope (as quoted in above cite)

I heartily concur that:

“This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.” (as cited above)