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Obama the Agitator
It's stuff like this that makes me see the route to Obama winning 2012. If prepared to do so, he will win ruthlessly, regardless of his ideals. Unlike the other politicians who eschewed dirty politics (and thus lose), Obama has had a history of winning by tricks of the trade.
He used the caucus system to accumulate more delegates than Hillary Clinton despite having fewer votes. Then he unified people behind him with his words.
He knocked off Alice Palmer and other candidates off the ballot to win state senate.
Is he then completely cynical, or does he simply have a duality that he is willing to balance more than most?
Will he succeed in proving that electoral organizing and word power can defeat even the deep-pocketed far right? Of course not, this is where the world as one would like it to be vs the world as it is now come into play---as he certainly wouldn't be able to win if he didn't have an army of supporters and of his own well-heeled donors.
It's stuff like this that makes me see the route to Obama winning 2012. If prepared to do so, he will win ruthlessly, regardless of his ideals. Unlike the other politicians who eschewed dirty politics (and thus lose), Obama has had a history of winning by tricks of the trade.
He used the caucus system to accumulate more delegates than Hillary Clinton despite having fewer votes. Then he unified people behind him with his words.
He knocked off Alice Palmer and other candidates off the ballot to win state senate.
Is he then completely cynical, or does he simply have a duality that he is willing to balance more than most?
Will he succeed in proving that electoral organizing and word power can defeat even the deep-pocketed far right? Of course not, this is where the world as one would like it to be vs the world as it is now come into play---as he certainly wouldn't be able to win if he didn't have an army of supporters and of his own well-heeled donors.
posted by Alan at September 13, 2012
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