WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama appeared Thursday at Democratic Party headquarters with his hand-picked incoming chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, but his predecessor, outgoing chief Howard Dean, was nowhere in sight.
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Democrats with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering the Obama team, say Dean won't attend the event at the request of Obama advisers.
The more I read about Obama and how he is treating his contemporaries in the Democratic party, the more I am pretty sure he's got his gun squarely pointed at his foot, cocked and ready to shoot. If it wasn't for Dean's 50 state policies that bucked the general Democratic prism, Obama wouldn't have had the access to the netroots or been able to penetrate as many red states as he did. He's sounding just as politically petty as Bush is.
Sad to say, but it looks like all Americans did was elect a black president. I doubt they elected anyone that would really be able to change the way this country is headed ... just give good speeches. That doesn't mean, by the way, that the alternative, McCain, would have, or could have, fared better. I believe McCain was and is completely out of touch with reality. I am just disappointed, still as much as I was the day Obama voted for FISA. Obviously better than Bush and the past 8 years, but certainly not anyone that is going to rock the boat in any fashion, politically speaking.
Too bad. Not even sworn in, and his proposed policies are already sounding like Bush lite.
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